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General Paul Adams and U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock with Lebanese Chief of Staff General Fouad Chehab in Lebanon
Unites States forces in Lebanon during the Lebanese crisis. U.S. Army soldiers lined up. Chief of Staff of Lebanese Army, General Fouad Chehab, and U.S. Army General Paul D. Adams walk towards Robert McClintock, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon. General Chehab shakes hands with Robert McClintock as General Adams looks on. U.S. State Department representative Robert Murphy, personal representative of President Eisenhower, stands in the background. General Chehab gets in a waiting Cadillac limousine. Another Lebanese official wearing a fez gets in the front passenger seat and the car drives away. Journalists take pictures.
View of the Suez Canal and Port Said and environs
What appears to be a fortress, with flag flying over it and a very tall steel tower standing in front of substantial buildings near the water's edge. Egyptian fishing boats docked at breakwater in Port-Said, with Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps in the background. Camera pans along the waterway, photographing a steamship and more fishing sail boats in the vicinity of the Lesseps monument. Scene shifts to the land, where local people are going about their routine workaday activities. It appears to be late in the day, with lengthened shadows and most shops closed. View changes to looking down from a fortress where visitors are going up stairs. Then a view from high up on a cross bridge where visitors have a view of rock outcroppings and excavations and a cave related to Suez canal construction. Another scene depicts several historic-looking buildings and a deep basin so large that Egyptian youths are playing football (soccer) in it. (Note: the film is reversed.)
President Dwight D Eisenhower and Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery tour the Gettysburg National Military Park, United States
People wave as President Dwight D Eisenhower and Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower arrive to attend Sunday services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church (208 Baltimore St, Gettysburg, PA 17325, United States). Crowds cheer and wave from behind a fence. Three young girls stand behind a metal fence. President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower descend from the car in front of the church. Sign reads “National Park Service Gettysburg National Military Park Union Battle Line High Water Mark Round Tops US Dept of the Interior”. A large artillery piece. People view the Virginia Monument (a monument with a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee on his horse Traveller and a "bronze group of figures representing the Artillery, Infantry, and Cavalry of the Confederate Army"). President Eisenhower and Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery tour the Gettysburg National Military Park (1195 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg, PA 17325, United States). President Eisenhower and Marshall Montgomery, in uniform, descend from the plane together. Photographers taking pictures. Later, Marshall Montgomery, in civilian suit, and the President tour the park and visit the Gettysburg National Museum. Sign on building reads 'Battle of Gettysburg on Electrical Map.' View of Gen George Meade's statue in the park. President Eisenhower and the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein view the Virginia Monument together.
International speedway race at Naestved Stadium, Denmark.
International speedway race on the dusty track at Naestved Stadium, Naestved, Denmark, Europe. Contestants including George Wilks from England, Leif Basse Hveem and Henry Andersen from Norway, Rune Sörmander from Sweden and the Dane Kiehn Berthelsen. Leif Basse Hveem wins the race in front of more than 11,000 spectators.
369th Infantry, 93rd Division United States Army African American soldiers occupy trenches and fire at Maffrecourt, France.
369th Infantry, 93rd Division United States Army African American soldiers occupy trenches near Maffrecourt, France during World War 1. They were also nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters. Troops fire from trenches. Though American, they are wearing French helmets. In one scene the African American soldiers are wearing gas masks. Soldier shows a document to Colonel. He ties a message to the carrier pigeon and releases it. African American soldiers rush from a trench toward the front with their rifles.
African American soldiers of U.S. Army 369th Regiment, 93rd Division, march in review near Maffrecourt, France, during World War I
African American soldiers of United States Army 369th Regiment, 93rd Division (Colored) (sometimes called the "Harlem Hellfighters") on parade across an open field near Maffrecourt,France, in World War 1. They are led by their Commander, Colonel William Hayward, on horseback, followed by 8 other mounted officers. Several soldiers are walking bicycles behind them. Next is seen the famous 369th Regimental marching band, led by Bandmaster, Lieutenant James Reese Europe. Troops of the Regiment march with shouldered arms in formations of 30-man fronts. At the end of the film, the troops execute a right flank maneuver. A three-man color guard poses for the camera with the American flag. No other colors are displayed during the review. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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