The first memorial erected to commemorate U.S.prisoners of war executed by the Nazis during the battle of the bulge (mostly elements of the American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion (FAOB), executed by the Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division). This was also known as the Massacre at Baugnez, or the Malmedy Massacre. A wooden cross and a sign reading 'USA - Belgium. To the prisoners of war of overseas who liberated the East districts and were the victims of Nazis cruelty." The wooden cross at the monument to commemorate the massacre of 115 American prisoners at Baugnez on December 17th 1944 during the Battle of Bulge, in World War 2.
Film about the state of Illinois in the United States. People enter a building for the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Illinois. People in the fair. Amusement rides, swings and people in a bus. Farmers walk with cattle. Children participate in 4-H club livestock competitions. A farmer near his blue ribbon winning cow. A girl near her sheep who won a blue ribbon. Children on a miniature train. Harness racing at a horse racing track in Illinois. Sports cars driven during an automobile race on a dirt track. Interior view of upper deck in double decker passenger train car with passengers enjoying the view through windows and a conductor punching tickets; Abraham Lincoln birth home cabin; View of statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The SS City of Grand Rapids ferry ship of the Cleveland & Buffalo Steamship Company passing by on Lake Michigan with Wrigley Building in background.
International exchange of CAP (Civil Air Patrol) cadets in Virginia, United States. A Seabee aircraft with a sign on it that reads 'University of Illinois'. A man checks the gasoline in the plane at the University of Illinois Willard airport (Tolono Township, IL, USA). A gasoline truck pulls up near the plane. A stationary aircraft on a flight line. Foreign CAP cadets get into the cockpit of the Seabee aircraft and work on the controls. Aircraft lined up. Cadets climb into the cockpit of a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft. The engine runs and the aircraft taxis. A hangar in the background. Foreign cadets get into the cockpit of a liaison aircraft. An Italian cadet gets into a cockpit. Cadets climb up the cockpit of Navion aircraft. The aircraft taxis along. Cadets enter other liaison aircraft.
The 27th annual meeting of the American Legion in Chicago, Illinois after the end of World War II. Women in uniforms and children eating chicken legs during the event. A war veteran speaks into a microphone. A sailor feeds chicken to an infant. Another war veteran from Georgia. Photographers take pictures of delegates during the annual meeting. A navy officer being presented a memento.
Golfer Byron Nelson wins at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club in Chicago, Illinois. People watch golfer Byron Nelson playing to win the first prize money in George May's All-American Open Golf Championship. Spectators watch Nelson play.
United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.
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