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Officers and civilians celebrate glory of French soldiers.
Officers and civilians celebrate glory of French soldiers. French officers stand under a shed. Civilian stands at field. Crowd gathers and people talk. They sing La Marseilles national anthem of France. Officer gives speech. Flowers and flags placed on a monument. People hold placard with Luneville written on it.
Commanding Generals of U.S. Army Services Forces and their missions are reviewed in this World War II film
Film starts with view of the U.S. military headquarters Pentagon building in Virginia, as seen from Columbia Island, across the lagoon, in World War 2.. Closeup of the building. Inside, Lieutenant General Brehon Burke Somervell , Commander of the Army Service Forces (ASF) is seen presiding over a staff meeting that includes seven Major Generals, who head the ASF technical services. Flag of the Quartermaster Corps seen in closeup. Officers of that organization are seen meeting. Scene shifts to a warehouse where military supplies are being moved on trailers pulled by small tractors. Carts filled with equipment are seen. Men prepare some for transport to America's allies overseas. Men fill packages with articles of clothing. A sign reads: "Maj. Gen. Reybold, Chief of Engineers." Engineers officers at a conference table rise as their Commander, General Reybold, enters. He sits and they begin their meeting. Closeup of staff officers in the meeting. Officers walk through a section of the Army Map Service, where cartographers, draftsmen and others are busy at tables creating maps. One of them is seen fitting several aerial photographs together to form a detailed map. A cartographer at the mapping service is seen annotating a map of the Marseille area of France. Views of high speed offset presses printing large scale maps for the military. A sign identifies the office of the Chief of Ordnance. Staff officers of that office are seen at work. Closeup of small arms being placed in a shipping box. An open yard filled with M24 Chaffee light tanks. A vast yard at a railroad siding, containing countless tanks on one side and building materials on the other. Sign in Pentagon at office of Major General H.C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer. Closeup of General Ingles at his desk. Members of his staff consult with him. Sign at office of the Chief, Chemical Warfare Service. Major General William N. Porter, the Chief, looks over maps with several staff. Troops training under gas attack and smoke screen conditions. The entrance to the office of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army. Inside, Major General Norman Thomas Kirk , Surgeon General, confers with a Colonel. Maps of areas where disease poses a threat to U.S. military forces. Office of Major General C.P. Gross, Army Chief of Transportation. Inside He holds a meeting with members of his staff. View of a pier where military supplies are being offloaded by means of derricks.
Dedication and unveiling of Memorial to King Alexander I of Yugoslavia. Military parade in Yugoslavia.
Troops lined up near flag draped monument in Yugoslavia. Crowd gathered for the ceremony. The flags are removed as drums roll, revealing the monument statue. French official gives dedication address.(Note: King Alexander was assassinated in Marseille, France, and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, was also killed in the same event, in 1934.) Troops stand at attention. Troops march.
Norwegian troops are inspected by Vidkun Quisling and German officers in the European Theater during World War II.
Norwegian troops in the European Theater during World War II. Minister President of Norway Vidkun Quisling and German officers inspect the troops. A statue in the background. Buildings in the background. Vichy French troops march. They entrain in Marseilles, France. They meet their loved ones and board trains. They bid good bye as the trains leave the station.
Atomic bomb scenes WWII; atomic testing at U.S. Army atomic experiment station 'Camp Desert Rock' in Nevada, United States
Episode of "The Big Picture", a U.S. Army series of news release programs. U.S. Army cameraman recording Nike missile launch. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud.. Army troops spill out of Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. U.S. Army infantry soldiers ascend hill firing their rifles. Atomic experiments at Camp Desert Rock in Nevada, United States. U.S. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen seated at a desk in his office. He speaks about a series of atomic experiments ("Desert Rock 6") held in barren lands of Nevada at Camp Desert Rock. Celebrating victory in Europe, during World War 2, American troops parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, with the Arch of Triumph behind them. Happy Parisians watch the parade. War scenes in Japan: footage of explosion and mushroom cloud rising after atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Barren land on the ground in Hiroshima after the August 6, 1945 atomic blast there . B-29 bombers in flight. Atomic bomb test detonation. Atomic artillery gun M65, also called the Atomic Cannon or Atomic Annie, fires and creates nuclear explosion on distant target.Viking missile launch. U.S. soldiers on parade. Headquarters sign at U.S. Army atomic experiment station at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada, displaying 6-pointed star with "A" in center.. Several atomic test explosions. Soldiers on hillside witness a non-nuclear explosion. Buses carry troops along a road past a sign warning of radiation hazard. Army captain, instructor, briefing troops before the start of atomic maneuvers.. Maps of planned maneuvers. Engineer surveyors lay out ground zero target. View of the ground zero area which is the target area for testing. Signal men lay communication lines to receive and transmit teletype messages. Men operate machinery and dig trenches in which troops will take cover. Other men cover them with sand. [Note: According to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, from February 18 to May 15, 1955, the United States conducted Operation Teapot, a nuclear test series at Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat on the Nevada Test Site in the continental United States. During the test period 14 nuclear shots and 1 non-nuclear shot were detonated. Several thousand scientific, military (army, air force, navy, marines), and civilian contract personnel participated in the organization, planning, and execution of the test series. Military exercises undertaken during and following the shots took place under the name Desert Rock 6.]
Liberation of several French cities from German Nazi troops in World War II.
Marseilles: View of the French port. British, French and American Naval officers examine German demolition of the port town. Officers survey unfinished U-Boat pens. Toulon: Destroyed German ships in the harbor. Bologne: German coastal guns in ruins. Destroyed artillery. Le Havre: Destroyed buildings and ruins in the town. Unfinished German U-Boat pens. Destroyed artillery. Brest: Destroyed buildings and ruins. German soldiers wave a white flag of surrender on September 18, 1944. U.S, Army Major General. W.M. Robertson , 2nd Infantry Division discusses the surrender with German Colonel E. Pietzonka of the 7th German Parachute Regiment. German soldiers assemble in the main square of the city during the surrender operation.
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