The ''Army–Navy Screen Magazine'' was a bi-weekly short film series which was shown to American military personnel around the world during

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. It included a

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and a cartoon of ''

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''. Originally titled ''The War'' when first released in May 1943, it was renamed after ten episodes. A total of fifty issues were produced until early 1946 by the

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under the supervision of director

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. The ''Private Snafu'' series was designated classified and were produced by

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/ Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA,

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, and Harman-Ising Studio. ''

A Tale of Two Cities ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the ...

'' was an ''Army–Navy Screen Magazine'' film that tells about the destruction and death caused by atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on August 6 and 9, 1945. An eyewitness account by Jesuit priest Father John Seimes, who had been on the outskirts of Hiroshima, was included. The short film was produced in 1946 by the United States War Department as issue number 74 of the series.

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