The 1956 National Convention of the Democratic Party at the International Amphitheatre (4220 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60609 United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Former President Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess, taking seats at the convention. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, taking her seat. Democratic Party National Chairman, Paul M. Butler standing behind and below the podium as convention prepares to get underway. The amphitheater is filled with seated delegates, as they are called to order. Delegates standing and applauding, following the keynote speech of Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee, who touches the Tennessee delegate identification pole as it is thrust toward him. Delegates waving poles displaying their respective State names.
The anniversary of D-Day at Utah Beach in Normandy, France during World War II. Graves of the first American cemetery. Miniature U.S. flags near the graves. The U.S. flag at the cemetery.
Air strikes of United States Air Force ( USAF ) aircraft in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A USAF Republic F-105 D Thunderchief in flight over a target area. Friendly aircrafts in flight as seen from the F-105. The aircraft targets the ground. Grassland in the background.
Paul Robert Ignatius, the United States Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) visits USS Shangri La (CV-38) in the Mediterranean Sea. View of Vice Admiral Edward H. Martin being greeted by Capt. Coogan, upon his arrival to the Shangri-La, via helicopter. The group proceeds on down the flight deck. Vice Admiral Martin, Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis, and Capt. Coogan, chatting on the flight deck. View of the honorable Paul R. Ignatius, SECNAV, departing the area of the helicopter on the flight deck. View of the SECNAV being greeted by Rear Admiral Geis, they proceed down the flight deck toward the Marine Honor Guard. The SECNAV stops to receive Honors. Side view of SECNAV receiving Honors, the band playing in the background. The Marine Honor Guard, with SECNAV appearing in the BG inspecting the Marine Honor Guard, along with the 1st. Lt. Terrence D. Brown, United States Marine Corps (USMC), officer in charge of the Marine Detachment. View of SECNAV receiving a 19 gun salute, smoke from guns seen in the far background. SECNAV walks through the rank of sideboys and prepares to depart from the ship. SECNAV receives a souvenir book from Capt. Coogan. Capt. Coogan shakes hand with the SECNAV beside the C-2A Greyhound. View of crewman assisting the SECNAV with a life jacket. SECNAV removes his coat, hands it to the crewman inside the plane, then dons the life jacket.
Troops coming home to America at the end of World War 2. An Army Sergeant just returned from Europe, at the end of World War 2, stands on a pier, beside the troop ship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176). With him is a woman who wearing a jacket emblazoned with many emblems of U.S. military units. The sergeant places the insignia of the 10th Armored Division on her back. They hug and laugh. Scene shifts completely to 9th Armored Division soldiers at Camp Patrick Henry, Newport News, Virginia, holding the large sign originally placed on the Ludendorff bridge in Germany, by C Company of the 9th Armored Engineer Battalion during the war. It reads:"Cross the Rhine with dry feet, courtesy of 9th Arm'd Div." The soldiers carry the sign past a wooden building at the camp. Change of scene shows Ninth Armored Division troops arriving by train at Camp Patrick Henry. They march in loose order through a Victory Arch bearing words: "Welcome Home" at an entrance to the camp. More views of the troops marching into Camp Patrick Henry, where the 9th Division is to be deactivated. In the camp grounds, Sergeant reaches into his dufflebag and takes out a small puppy. ( Note: Vehicles: seen in this clip include: MB GPW, and CCKW)
French General Philippe Leclerc greets an arriving General and stands with others of the Forces Expéditionnaires Françaises d'Extrême-Orient, FEFEO. Scene is at an airfield in French Indochina. General Leclerc presents awards and recognition to several soldiers standing at attention. One of the soldiers, a colonial, wears a bandage on his head. Another soldier is seen with arm in a sling. The ruins of an Indochina city. The damaged buildings and debris. Dead Viet-Minh lying on ground. A French guard stands on duty outside a building. Men inspect the damaged site.
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