Guests leaving the traditional Commander's New Year's Day reception, at home of Major General William S. Graves, in Quarry Heights, Canal Zone, Panama. General Graves is bidding guests farewell, as they leave the reception.
United States soldiers and several Coast Guardsmen gather for a Catholic mass, on a pier at the port of Waymouth, England, three days prior to the invasion of France in World War 2. A Catholic Military Chaplain conducts the mass. Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L) numbers 89 and 93 can be seen tied up at the dock in the background. A pet dog stands at the feet of the Chaplain, during the mass. The Chaplain administers the sacrament of Holy Communion (Eucharist) to waiting troops.
Bastille Day celebrations in France. French sailors and American soldiers lined up at the celebrations. Girls hold bunches of flowers with flag bearers in the background. American soldiers march as officers review the parade. Officers stand in the balcony of a building as they review the march past. French sailors and civilians march. American flag carried during the parade.
Bastille Day celebrations in France. American soldiers lined up at the celebrations as one of them holds a flag. French sailors lined up at the ceremony. An American soldier reads out from a paper with flowers placed at a memorial next to him. An officer reads out from the paper. Officers and civilians at the celebrations.
Bastille Day celebrated in Cherbourg, France during World War II. French military officers talk to each other. One of the officers with a number of medals on his jacket. French soldiers march down a street. Officers holding flags lined up in the town center with Napoleon's statue in the background. Soldiers lined up as they hold American and British flags.
President Roosevelt delivers a speech reflecting the failure of World War 1 to be the "war to end war." He addresses a crowd at the Arlington National Cemetery Amphitheater in Arlington, Virginia, gathered for Armistice Day, commemorating the 1918 armistice ending World War I. Roosevelt reflects upon the role of United States in the world (as seeds of World War 2 are being sown). He upholds the ideals of peace and importance of being a good neighbor. He declares that the aim must be to avoid war and to remove the causes of war.
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