U.S. Prepares More Paratroops For Battle [Etc.] 1944
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Part 1, paratroops train and jump from planes. Part 2, Gen. de Gaulle presents the Legion of Honor to Gen. Mark Clark. Part 3, shows a Navy ...all » Part 1, paratroops train and jump from planes. Part 2, Gen. de Gaulle presents the Legion of Honor to Gen. Mark Clark. Part 3, shows a Navy salvage crane at work off the Atlantic coast. Part 4, WAVES in Cedar Falls, Iowa, pick corn during a farm labor shortage. At Hunter College in New York City, WAVES pass in review for Mayor La Guardia. Part 5, Adms. King and Nimitz visit Saipan. Shows Marine Gen. Holland Smith. Part 6, a volcano erupts at Paricutin, Mexico. Lava advances, wrecking homes, as citizens flee. ARC ID: 39021 Keywords: Ships; World War, 1939-1945; Airborne operations Hunter College; King, Ernest Joseph, Adm.; Mexico--Paricutin Ships--Reclamation and Salvage; Smith, Holland McTyeire, Gen.; Volcanoes WAVES (Navy); Cedar Falls (Black Hawk county, Iowa, United States, North and Central America) inhabited place; Clark, Mark W. (Mark Wayne), 1896-1984; "Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970; "La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947; "Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966; United News«