U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird visits General Printing Office exhibit at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. Melvin R. Laird visits GPO display in the concourse of the Pentagon and is greeted by members of the Printing Office and U.S. Marine Corp Commandant General Leonard F. Chapman and U.S. Air Force Director of Information Major General William C. Garland. Secretary Laird looks at Marine combat art. A sign reads 'Government Book Store'. Secretary Laird speaks to Major General Garland.
Dedication of the Marshall Corridor at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. U.S. President Gerald Ford tours the Hall of Heroes. U.S. officials and a crowd at the Pentagon. President Ford speaks to U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Fredrick Carlton Weyand at the ceremony. President Ford passes through the crowd.
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 inside the 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.
A film titled: 'Demolition Equipment for Airborne Engineers' depicts the use of demolition equipment by the paratroopers during World War II. The training of the paratroopers in the United States. A bridge is exploded using the demolition charge. Smoke arising from the explosion. Paratroopers standing on the ground. An officer instructing them the use of demolition equipment set number 5. He demonstrates how to place the kit on a target and prepare the detonator assembly.
The U.S. soldiers of the 3rd Armored Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Rubbled buildings along the street sides. U.S. soldiers racing across streets while tracers from the U.S. tanks cover their advance. The destroyed cathedral in the foreground. Posters in German on the wall of a building. Tracer fire striking vehicles in the background. German soldier walking across the intersection. Soldier breaking down the door of a building. Two soldiers watching through binoculars.
The U.S. soldiers of the 3rd Armored Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Rubbled buildings along the street sides. U.S. soldiers cautiously advance through the debris filled streets. U.S. soldiers attend wounded German girl lying near a wrecked vehicle.
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