| Show soldiers on oil pacific islands see more alore pictures per week than they did as civilians in TT e an average of more than 40 prints of three first run productions more than a soldier saw in an average civilian week are turned over to the army every week in addition to GI movies screen magazine fighting men and other informational and educational features produced and distributed by army service forces changes in station constant shifting of the tides of battle make it impossible for all soldiers to see every picture at the same time but they will eventually see them maj gen frederick osborn director of morale services states on guadalcanal Guadal canal for instance shows N were vere in progress one night when the general was making a tour on Finsch hafen new guinea a jeep conveyed the generals party to a unit headquarters where three t films were being shown to several th aLsand soldiers entertainment reels from 19 army overseas film exchanges are transported by plane boat jeep or hand carried to the camp sites mobile special services companies with portable equipment and camera crews tour remote areas playing one night stands 1 today some soldier in a waterlogged 1 foxhole sitting stop atop a gasoline drum to bep keep his feet dry is seeing a picture perhaps just premiered by you in the plush seats of radio city new york general osborn comment ait |
