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The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures starring Fredric March and based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The picture was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb , Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie MacPherson ...
Battle bombers in course of construction. At the Heaton Chapel, Stockport, Cheshire Factory ("all subsequent aircraft were manufactured at Fairey's newly completed factory at Heaton Chapel, Stockport, Cheshire." The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). London: Orbis Publishing, 1985 p. 1693. Date: 1938: Source
The 1938 Gettysburg reunion was an encampment of American Civil War veterans on the Gettysburg Battlefield for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.The gathering included approximately 25 veterans of the battle [3]: 72 with a further 1,359 Federal and 486 Confederate attendees [4] out of the 8,000 living veterans of the war. [5]
Crowds running for shelter when the air-raid alarm sounded, Bilbao, Spain, 1937. Crowds Running for Shelter When the Air-raid Alarm Sounded is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa in Bilbao, Basque Country, during the Spanish Civil War in May 1937. [1]
Some films are not listed here in order to keep this list to a manageable size. These include films that were released before 1930 (see Category:Films by year for pre-1930 films) and works of the United States government.
Nanking includes commentary on the locations of each military confrontation during the battle interspersed with footage of Japanese soldiers giving cigarettes to Chinese POWs, the Japanese Army's victory parade through the city, a joint service for the war dead, the refugee area set up by the International Committee known as the Nanking Safety Zone, rebuilding by the Japanese Army and ...
This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1920–1929, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is the main motion picture production and distribution arm of Universal Studios , a subsidiary of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast .
USS Boise (CL-47) was a light cruiser of the Brooklyn class in the United States Navy.The cruiser was named for Boise, the capital city of the state of Idaho. Commissioned in 1938, she saw extensive service during World War II, taking part in fighting in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.