U.S. Army General John J. Pershing addresses officers in Tours, France during World War I. A car parked in front of a building. U.S. soldiers stand on either side of the entrance of a building. General John J. Pershing escorted by the officers comes out from the building. He gets in the car and leaves for inspection of buildings. The officers line up . The cars drive on a road. The soldiers stand in the background. Pershing gets off from the car. He is greeted by officers. Pershing talks to the officers. He takes off his coat and hands it over to one of the officers. Pershing wears his hat and walks. The officers stand in formation. General Pershing addresses the officers. Women officers lined up. General Pershing escorted by officers walk past the women officers . U.S. soldiers stand in formation. Pershing inspects the soldiers. He leaves after the inspection.
U.S. Army General John J. Pershing decorates Generals in Tours, France during World War I. The Generals lined up. U.S. soldiers stand in formation. General Pershing stands in front of them. The U.S. flag in the background. General Pershing escorted by officers decorates U.S. Army General Francis Joseph Kernan, Rogers, and other Generals lined up. The Generals stand with medals around their necks. General Pershing escorted by officers leaves the field after decorating the Generals. U.S. soldiers stand in the background. The decorated Generals standing at attention. A band plays music. U.S. 11th Marine Regiment soldiers parade. The decorated Generals stand in the foreground. General Pershing reviews 11th Marine Regiment. General Pershing leaves after reviewing the parade.
Views from dock in New York and from aboard ship as the SS Marine Flasher arrives in New York on May 20, 1946, after departing Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. Crowd of people gathered to greet passengers getting off the ship. Scenes show jubilant people and some reunions of family members or relatives. The passengers are largely displaced persons and refugees from World War 2. People disembark the ship. A woman with her child stands in front of a hatch. Three women aboard the ship pose. A woman kisses a man. People meet their relatives. People leave with their luggage. The luggage of the people with tags. Luggage tags with name (Ingeborg) Inge Rummeni of 824 North 38th St. Milwaukee Wisconsin on them. A woman and a child show concentration camp number tattoos on their arms from a Nazi German prison camp.
Film opens showing a U.S. Air Transport Command C-54 aircraft taxiing in to park at the Washington National airport, Washington, DC. Next, U.S. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, leaves the aircraft and descends steps, followed by a Congressional delegation, including Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. The airport ramp is crowded with Army Air Forces personnel, photographers, and news reporters. Other Air Forces members watch from in front of the Army Air Forces Transport Command Terminal in the background. Closeup of Byrnes greeting several men in the crowd. Part of the sequence repeats again.
British Army Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery with U.S. Generals in Nieuwkerk, Germany during World War II. Montgomery, U.S. Army Lt. General William H. Simpson and U.S. Army Major General John B. Anderson come out from XVI Corps Headquarters. A soldier takes pictures in the foreground. British soldiers stand in front of the headquarters. Montgomery, Simpson and Anderson standing with other officers. Montgomery looks around and speaks to U.S. Generals. Montgomery, Simpson and Anderson escorted by an officer walk along a road. Buildings and soldiers in the background. They enter the headquarters and come out. A car parked in the foreground. The three of them stand together and talk. Montgomery puts on his coat while talking.
The 42nd National Automobile Show at the New York Coliseum (present day site of Time Warner Center. 10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019, United States), December 8-16, 1956. A sign above an escalator at the entrance reads 'National Automobile Show'. A model wearing a swimsuit seated on the hood of a 1957 Desoto convertible. Two women seated in a 1957 Chrysler 300C. Aerial view of the Buick exhibit, with the 1957 Buick Roadmaster Convertible prominently displayed. An executive version of the 1957 Cadillac features a typewriter in the back seat and a record player in the front dash. Auto executives gathered at a display featuring a row of steering wheels. President of Chrysler Lester Lum Colbert hails the future in a statement.
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