514 West Point Cadets Graduate Into U.S. Army (1943)
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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38961, LI 208-UN-54 - 514 West Point Cadets Graduate Into U.S. Army (1943). Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, Gen. Arnold presents "wings" to future Army Air Force officers and the Cadet Corps passes in review at West Point. Part 2, Gunder Hagg, Swedish track star, lands in the U.S. and begins training. Part 3, the British Navy captures German troops attempting to escape in small boats off the African coast. Gens. Eisenhower and Giraud review a gigantic French-American military parade in Tunis. Part 4, allied planes bomb German bases in France. Liberator planes strike Japanese bases in the Solomons. U.S. planes attack Japanese bases in the Aleutian Islands. Shows Eddie Rickenbacker.
