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Universal Newsreel · Volume 24, Release 490 · September 10, 1951 · Full release

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    Allies Brace for New Red Assault in Korea · Korea

    Despite Pacific peace treaties and truce negotiations, the United Nations allies brace for new communist offensives in Korea.

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    Spectacular Oil Fire · England

    Britain's biggest peacetime oil fire ever—12,000,000 gallons going up in smoke at Avonmouth—presents a spectacular sight, and a dangerous one, as firemen fight…

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    War's End 48 Nations Sign Jap Treaty · San Francisco

    The Pacific War comes to an official end, six years after, as forty-eight nations sign a peace treaty with Japan.

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Allies Brace for New Red Assault in Korea (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1951)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. ALLIES BRACE FOR NEW RED ASSAULT IN KOREA: KOREA - Despite Pacific peace treaties and truce negotiations, the United Nations allies brace for new communist offensives in Korea. Foot-soldiers slog through flood-swollen streams to prepare defensive positions, while in the air, big bombers roar out to blast enemy installations close to the Russian border. 2A/B/C. SPECTACULAR OIL FIRE: ENGLAND - Britain's biggest peacetime oil fire ever—12,000,000 gallons going up in smoke at Avonmouth—presents a spectacular sight, and a dangerous one, as firemen fight the stubborn oil blaze through the night. / SNYDER OPENS BOND DRIVE: GRAND RAPIDS - Treasury Secretary John Snyder arrives to spark opening of nation's greatest bond drive since the war. Organized labor stages a mammoth float parade in connection with opening. / THE LONG ROAD HOME: GERMANY - Hundreds of German youngsters, homeward bound from the communist World Youth Festival in Berlin, present a sorry sight as they file through Helmstedt before returning to their homes in West Germany. 3. WAR'S END 48 NATIONS SIGN JAP TREATY: SAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific War comes to an official end, six years after, as forty-eight nations sign a peace treaty with Japan. Russia's Gromyko and his communist stooges walk out after taking parliamentary beating from the allies.

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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

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Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library

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1951-09-10
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