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Generals Omar Bradley and J. Lawton Collins attend ceremony at Utah Beach Memorial on 25th anniversary of D-Day
A U.S. delegation visits Normandy, France, 25 years after the Allied invasion of France during World War II. Soldiers and Honor Guard lined up. Military band plays. A cameraman records as a correspondent speaks. Children carrying American flags lined up along a path. Military officers seated in chairs. Civilians stand behind barricades. French officers at the ceremony. A helicopter in flight. A French Breton woman wearing a traditional hat of the Concarneau region. American officials including General Omar Bradley and his wife, along with General J. Lawton Collins. U.S. Ambassador to France Robert Sargent Shriver is also seen. Close views of General Bradley and General Collins seated side by side. British and American flags raised at the ceremony. A sign on a memorial reads 'In memory of our dead 1st Engineer Special Brigade'. A French flag raised. British, American, French and Canadian flags near the memorial at Utah Beach in Normandy. Military Honor guards standing at attention. Two U.S. Army soldiers in a small tank vehicle near the officials. The turret revolves. General Collins assists a soldier in lighting a flame torch. The soldier gets onto the tank. General Collins places flowers at the memorial.
American correspondents visit cemetery in Opijnen, Gelderland, the Netherlands for Memorial Day ceremony honoring U.S. B-17 crew
American correspondents in Netherlands to mark 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. A steamer underway in a canal. Views in the village of Opijnen, in Gelderland, the Netherlands. A correspondent and his wife come out of a house. American correspondents near a bus. Houses along a road. An American flag at the walled cemetery in Opijnen, beside its 17th century Dutch Reformed Church, where the crew members of an American B-17 bomber from the 323 Squadron of the 91st Bomb Group (H) of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force are buried; shot down July 30, 1943 by the German Luftwaffe. Gravestones bearing the names of American soldiers who lost their lives when their crippled B-17 was shot down, including: Mike Anthony Perrotta, Hermon Daines Poling, Harold Royce Sparks, Robert Urquhart Duggan, Douglas Victor Blackwood, Americo Cianfichi. U.S. Color Guard marches from a town building toward the cemetery. A woman correspondent takes pictures. An American flag flies at half mast. Men, women and children at the cemetery. Dutch children carry flowers in their hands. The mayor of Opijnen speaks into a microphone. He and a woman place flowered wreaths at the graves of dead American soldiers. Two groups of four U.S. Convair F-102 Delta Dagger aircraft fly overhead followed by four F-104 Starfighters of the Royal Netherlands Airforce. Children walk past the graves. Additional propeller aircraft pass overhead honoring the airmen.
Instructor at FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia, United States demonstrates the Remington Model 81
An Instructor at FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia, United States demonstrates the Remington Model 81 autoloading rifle chambered in 30 Remington caliber. Instructor displays rifle's long recoil action using a large scale wooden model. The demonstration is repeated three times, each successively closer to the instructor and wooden model. Finally, several firearms are displayed, without comment, on a table. They include: Thompson submachine gun, with twin grips (a drum magazine is seen at corner of table) ; Colt automatic pistol; Remington pump gun; 38 Police special; and Remington semiautomatic rifle. (World War 2 time period.)
Students at FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia, United States going through a pistol drill.
Students at FBI Academy Quantico,Virginia, United States going through a pistol drill. Group firing from different angles and positions. Instructor in stand speaks over PA system. August 1942. (World War II period).
President Harry Truman speaks at a celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
President Harry Truman speaks at a celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, held on the Washington Monument grounds in Washington DC. President Truman, at the podium, states that peace in Korea does not lessen world tensions as long as Soviet rulers remain an armed camp. He states that vigilance is the price of peace. (Korean War period.)
Kuwait Harbor on Persian Gulf, in 1942
Peaceful scene of harbor at Kuwait on Persian Gulf, during time of British administration, in 1942. Several small sailboats are in the water near a wharf. The sun is shining. People in western clothing walking beside port area. A cabin cruiser is docked and several men stand near it conversing. A man, woman, and child stroll along the wharf. Scene shifts to the Brazilian Freighter, SS Ozorio (aka OSORIO) entering the harbor. Camera focuses on the Ozorio, underway. (Note: On June 8, 1941, The SS Ozorio, picked up survivors from the Robin Moor, first U.S. ship to go down in World War II. Later, the Ozorio, herself, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, on September 27, 1942.)
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