Charlotte Mecklenburg Library - Classic Catalog

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United News. Release 1034 (1944), The Year 1944 [evideo] / United Newsreel Corporation.

New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2010], c1944.

Electronic resource:

Part of the Films on Demand collection. https://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?url=http://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?xtid=41567

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at the 1943 Teheran Conference; U.S. troops land and fight on Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and other Pacific islands; Russian troops advance to Romania and capture German soldiers; ships carrying equipment, supplies, and men are loaded in England and cross the English Channel; paratroops jump at Caen; troops land under a naval barrage; citizens of Rome, Paris, Bucharest, Brussels, Belgrade, and Athens celebrate their liberation; Dumbarton Oaks, Quebec, and Yalta Conferences; the re-election of F.D.R.; airplane manufacturing; U.S. Navy bombards the Philippine Islands and General MacArthur and President Osmena wade ashore; F.D.R. addresses the UN; General Eisenhower; Pope Pius XII.

1 streaming video file (12 min.) : sd., col.

The Year 1944 (2:01) -- Advance to Romania (3:41) -- Summer Liberation (2:04) -- Roosevelt is Re-Elected (1:00) -- Navy Bombards Philippines (2:33)

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