Regimental Unit of Eighth United States Army during the Korean War. Trucks of a Regimental Unit passing along roads. Two officers looking field maps and conversing. Soldiers walk in line followed by army tanks on the road side. Tanks cross streams. Artillery and mortars seen firing on targets. Officers standing in front of maps and discussing tactics. View of General Matthew Ridgway consulting maps with other officers and then boarding a small airplane. Armored Task Force Team activities: One soldier technician stands near the radar at an army truck while others work inside the truck. Soldiers seen in a bunker, looking through a device that detects location of hostile fire. Soldiers place microphones in the ground, to detect enemy activity. They run cables away from the microphones. Two soldiers look at a paper and talk over radio, reporting information learned from the microphones. Soldiers release a hydrogen balloon carrying a radiosonde device for measuring atmospheric conditions, such as wind, humidity and pressure. Technician seated beside a radio receiving device recording weather readings.
Lieutenant General George S. Patton addresses troops from an outdoor stage and then awards Silver Stars for gallantry to members of the U.S. Army 39th Infantry, 9th Division, in Capo Playa, near Cefalu, Italy. Patton awards the medals and then the soldiers form into groups from their respective home states, which include New Jersey, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. The army band is seen standing near the soldiers. The soldiers parade in front of the officers. Awarded soldiers take off their helmets and pose for photographers. Close-ups of soldiers with medals while flags from the honor guard wave in background. (World War 2. WWII. WW2.)
Aerial views of Operation Tidal Wave, an air attack by B-24 heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces on oil refineries around Ploiesti or Ploesti, Romania. during World War II. The 98th and 376th Bomb Groups of 9th Air force and 44th, 93rd, and 389th Bomb Groups of 8th Air Force took part.. Fifty-three aircraft and 660 aircrew were lost in this raid. Views of bombers dropping bombs over the oil refineries,factories,railroad yards and oil fields. Aerial views of destroyed Ploesti oil fields and of the planes climbing out and leaving the area.
Building of Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan,United States. Heavy automobile and pedestrian traffic on the street in front of the plant, celebrating the 10 millionth Ford Model-T, and the beginning of its motorcade from New York to San Francisco.
Exterior views of the Jewish Hostel in Paris France, located at 16 Rue Lamarck, Montmartre. A group of people wait in line to enter the dining room of the hostel. Sign on the exterior building wall stating 'Association Philanthropique - Asile de Muit, Asile de Jour et Creche Israelites - Reconnue D'Utilite Publique.". A tall building nearby under construction, and a cathedral dome and spire rising behind that. Various views of the hostel, the street in front, and people arriving and entering the hostel.
Exterior aerial and ground views of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe or SHAPE (SHAPE, Rue Grande, 7010 Mons, Belgium) located at Casteau, Wallonia, Belgium, north of the city of Mons. Various participating national flags and official cars parked in the premises of the headquarters. The SHAPE emblem above the doorway of the building, including the words, "Vigilia Pretium Libertatis". Dress Military hats from various countries and military branches on a hat and coat rack. Near Wiesbaden Germany, at Lindsey Air Station, a large NATO symbol outside on a large sign, with a smaller insignia and sign in the center that reads, "U.S. Air Forces in Europe." A sign on a building stating 'US Air Force Headquarters Europe'.
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