Departure of United States Major General Charles Andrew Willoughby from Yokohama, Japan. Maj. Gen. Willoughby reviews the honor guard at a pier. An army band plays. Transporter in the background. A citation is read and Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) is presented to Willoughby by U.S. General Bunker Ridgway. Ridgway walks along the pier. His wife Mary Anthony Ridgway walks along.
Departure of United States Major General Charles Andrew Willoughby from Yokohama, Japan. Maj. Gen. Willoughby comes aboard a ship. He shakes hands with a group of civilians before he turns and walks up a gangplank. Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida, U.S. officers and Japanese civilians come off the ship after saying good bye to the Major General. Willoughby waves from the ship. The gangplank is pulled away from the ship and is lowered to the pier. Two sailors aboard the ship start to close the hatch doors. The ship alongside the pier. Dockworkers remove lines.
Departure of United States Major General Charles Andrew Willoughby from Yokohama, Japan. Maj. Gen. Willoughby inspects troops. He says good-bye to officers. He shakes hands with British Brigadier General A. K. Ferguson. Willoughby says good-bye, talks to officers, smiles and frowns.
Departure of United States Army Major General Charles Andrew Willoughby from Yokohama, Japan. Sailors stand beside the railing of a deck. The sailors pull up a rope. People stand on the ship.
The life and career of U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower up to the time of his appointment as the Supreme Commander of the NATO. The Foreign Ministers and Defense Secretaries of many countries seated at a desk in Brussels, Belgium. They arrive for the Brussels North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Conference. Officials from different countries including French Statesman Robert Schuman and British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Bevin arrive at the conference. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson addresses the officials and talks about the election of General Eisenhower as the Supreme Commander of NATO. He also states about the formation of new defense production board.
The life and career of U.S. Army General Dwight D Eisenhower up to the time of his appointment as the Supreme Commander of the NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization). General Eisenhower with Mrs. Eisenhower and their grand children. They watch the photographs of his early life. The General arrives at his former home in Dennison, Texas. 'Eisenhower Birthplace' written on a board on the top of a building. The General has breakfast with his school teachers and other friends at his home. He meets officials at an air base. The General with his brothers Earl and Milton. A photograph of General Eisenhower as a West Point cadet. Cadets marching on a ground. Eisenhower as a U.S. Army Brigadier General discusses a wall map with other officials. The General is greeted by British King George VI in Great Britain. He plans European invasions with British Army General Bernard Montgomery. He goes ashore with General Montgomery after the Allied amphibious landing on Normandy, France. General Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill watch a mass parachute drop at the Rhine River in Germany. He accepts the surrender of the German forces in Rheims, France.