Zelli’s Royal Box night club in Paris, owned by Joe Zelli and located at 16 bis rue Fontaine. Several tables set in the club. People seated at the tables. The room is decorated. Bottles of alcoholic beverages are evident everywhere. An African American dancer performs in the center of the dance floor. Audience cheers and claps. An African American ensemble plays jazz and patrons dance. The trumpet player is Crickett Smith, and the drummer is USA Army Corporal Eugene Bullard. Patrons are seen on the dance floor under a chandelier with streamers. A balcony is seen above, where so-called "Royal Boxes"were arranged allowing patrons to watch festivities below. (Note: Bullard lived a storied life. Among other things, he served in World War 1 as one of 200 U.S. servicemen who flew for France. He was the first African American combat pilot and the first to shoot down enemy aircraft, and was decorated multiple times for valor. He was living in the Montmartre section of Paris after World War 1, which was known as a center for American Jazz music. He learned to play drums from the pioneer jazz musician Louis Mitchell and played in the house band at Zellis nightclub before taking over the management of a nightclub called Le Grand Duc, in 1924. The 2006 movie "Flyboys" portrayed members of the Lafayette Flying Corps and included a character based on Bullard.)
The first memorial erected to commemorate U.S.prisoners of war executed by the Nazis during the battle of the bulge (mostly elements of the American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion (FAOB), executed by the Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division). This was also known as the Massacre at Baugnez, or the Malmedy Massacre. A wooden cross and a sign reading 'USA - Belgium. To the prisoners of war of overseas who liberated the East districts and were the victims of Nazis cruelty." The wooden cross at the monument to commemorate the massacre of 115 American prisoners at Baugnez on December 17th 1944 during the Battle of Bulge, in World War 2.
USAF,USN and ARVN personnel requiring air transportation through the 8th Aerial Port squadron terminal on Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, Vietnam. United States Air Force (USAF),United States Navy (USN) and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) airmen at counter process request for forms. Passengers include Captain Cook (USA) and Captain Carl R. Smink. A man at counter fills form. Men at counter check the identification cards and staples the forms. (Vietnam War period).
USAF,USN and ARVN personnel requiring air transportation through the 8th Aerial Port squadron terminal on Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, Vietnam. Vietnamese workers load baggage and mail sacks onto trailer. Aircraft parked in the background. USA personnel read magazines outside building. A sign on building reads 'WELCOME TAN SON NHUT USAF-VNAF PASSENGER SERVICE'. Trucks parked outside the building. A camouflaged Lockheed C-130 Hercules taxis.
USAF,USN and ARVN personnel requiring air transportation through the 8th Aerial Port squadron terminal on Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, Vietnam. A camouflaged Army of the Republic of Vietnam (VNAF) aircraft A-1H Skyraider on approach and lands. Shows camouflaged C-130A on approach and landing to left. Shows camouflaged USA CV-2B aircraft on approach and landing to left. Shows USN Lockheed P2V-5FS (SP-2E) Neptune on approach and lands. Shows camouflaged RF-101Voodoo taxiing out. (Vietnam War period).
Activities of the U.S. 3rd Marine Corps Division in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A sign in grassy area reads 'Camp Carroll'. The Camp Carroll dedication sign reads ' Camp J. J. Carrolls Dedicated November 1966 in Honor of Captain James Joseph Carroll, USMC, Company "K" 3rd BN 4th Marines". The grassy and dirt fields, dirt road , large tents and sandbag psns at Camp Carroll. A USA 175mm gun in psn. The hardback buildings, sandbags psns and marine stand and walk at Camp Carroll.
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