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General Douglas MacArthur early career, including early 1900's and World War I era events in life of MacArthur

'The Big Picture' depicts the life of General Douglas MacArthur. Sergeant Stuart Queen introduces the program about General Douglas MacArthur. General MacArthur delivers a speech at a Joint meeting of Congress as he closes his 52 years of service. General MacArthur with his father Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur. A childhood picture of General Douglas. Picture of General Douglas with American Olympic team. The Philippine Campaign under Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur. View of Mount Fuji, in Japan, and sketch of Japan neighborhood. World War I footage with with rows of tents. View of World War 1 soldiers digging trenches. The soldiers of the 42nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army commonly known as the Rainbow Division exercise in front of Major Douglas MacArthur before departing for France. The soldiers march. A troop ship carrying the 42nd Division underway across the Atlantic and disembarking in France. Colonel Macarthur comes down a flight of stairs and studies a map with two persons. Brief scene of railway guns being fired by U.S. 73rd Artillery Regiment, Haussimont, France. U.S. troops in combat in trenches at the front in World War I. U.S. Artillerymen firing 155mm howitzer during battle. General Pershing, Commander American Expeditionary Forces, decorates Colonel MacArthur. The exterior of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where General Douglas was a superintendent. The cadets in the academy. The cadets stand up to honor General Douglas MacArthur.

Date: 1918
Duration: 6 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033585
General Douglas MacArthur delivers a farewell address at a Joint meeting of Congress in Washington DC.

The life of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur from 1945 to 1951. General Douglas with other officers in Korea. Fight with the Chinese on the Korean Front. MacArthur in a jeep studies a map. A motorcade in San Francisco. Large crowds welcome MacArthur. MacArthur in an open car waves at the people. Mrs MacArthur in an open car with other women. MacArthur makes a speech expressing his gratitude towards his wife. The MacArthur family in an open car. Gen. MacArthur delivers a speech at the Joint session of Congress in Washington DC as he completes his 52 years of service, including famous line, "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." The audience applauds. Sergeant Stuart Quinn of the U.S. Army talks about General MacArthur.

Date: 1951
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033589
Early pictures of American General George S Patton in Africa during World War II.

'The Big Picture' episode narrated by Ronald Reagan depicts the life of U.S. General George S Patton, Jr. Opening scene shows General George S. Patton, Jr. stepping from a landing craft in France, during World War 2. He stands by the side of a road and waves, as elements of his 3rd Army pass in tanks. Patton in a jeep moving with his troops. General Patton pointing with a baton, in North Africa. View of a world globe being circled by a satellite. A baby picture of Patton (called "Georgie"). Patton seen as a boy, fencing, as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, and as a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. A smiling Patton at West Point. Members of the first football team for soldiers established by Patton. Renault tanks of the 1st Tank Battalion moving with AEF soldiers in World War I. Tank commander George Patton standing in front of a Renault tank. Group picture of American soldiers and tanks, at the Tank School, in Fort Meade, Maryland, after World War I. Closeup of Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, in the group. Patton and his wife, Beatrice Banning Ayer, in Old West costumes, for a party, where he displays a pistol in his belt, and in costumes for another party, where they dress as a knight and his lady on horseback. American recruits and draftees being issued uniforms in World War 2. Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr. commanding forces for the invasion of North Africa, in November, 1942. U.S. Navy warships fire their guns in advance of an amphibious landing. Landing craft heading toward shore. U.S. troops coming ashore at Casablanca, French Morocco. General Patton accompanied by French officers. Glimpse of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at their conference in Casablanca in 1943. Patton riding in an armored car with three-star flag displayed. Artillery firing in battle of Tunisia. Lt. Gen. Patton and others observing operations. British General, Sir Harold Alexander, steps from a light airplane to meet with General Patton in North Africa. They converse. Patton and another officer looking through binoculars from a ridge by the village of El Guettar, as allies engage German troops and armor from the 10th Panzer Division. M3 Lee tanks moving in the desert. Knocked out tanks of the German 10th Panzer Division. General Patton coming aboard an American warship, and then standing with an Italian officer and a U.S. Major General. Allied naval bombardment at night. Patton observing though binoculars. Allied warships bombarding Sicily. Allied amphibious forces heading ashore in landing craft. Troops moving ashore. Closeup of troops in a landing craft. Glimpse of Patton in a landing craft. Troops walking across floating dock from a landing ship. U.S. flag flying in sand at beachhead. Landing ships in background. General Patton stepping ashore from small boat, and conversing onshore with a Brigadier General and some troops.

Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033594
Recounting of the criminal careers and death of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker (Bonnie and Clyde).

Reenactment of highlights in criminal career of Bonnie & Clyde, with actual scenes of their final demise. Dallas, Texas. Clyde meets waitress Bonnie Parker. External view of Baltimore Dairy Lunch diner. Sign reads, "Open All Night" Bonnie and Clyde sit on running board of a car and drink. Clyde shoots a bird with a gun. Two officers on motorcycles approach them. They kill the officers by shooting them with rifles. Bonnie and Clyde get in their car and drive away. Bodies on the road. Police, determined to end Bonnie and Clyde's continuing crimes, set up an ambush for them on a gravel road in Louisiana. They maintain the stakeout for three days. When Bonnie and Clyde show up the police open fire, killing them both. View of the actual death scene, with the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde seen in their gun shot riddled car. From "The Retribution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker."

Date: 1934, May 23
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033722
Officers Prentiss Oakley, Henderson Jordan, Bob Alcorn,and Ted Hinton who killed Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in Louisiana

From "The Retribution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker". Officers Prentiss Oakley, Henderson Jordan, Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton kill Clyde and Bonnie. Sheriff Smooth Schmid fulfills the obligation of apprehending Clyde and Bonnie. He describes their experiences during the pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde.

Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033724
Crowds attend funerals of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in Dallas, Texas

Conclusion of "The Retribution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker." In Louisiana, officer Prentiss Oakley talks about how all officers involved fulfilled their duties, carried out orders, and thus justice was served by the killing of Bonnie and Clyde in Louisiana. Crowds fill the sidewalk in front of the Dallas funeral home where Clyde Barrow's body has been brought for burial. The aged father and mother of Clyde Barrow. People crowd around them.Barrow's younger brother consoles his mother. The burial of Clyde Barrow. People lay wreaths on the coffin, and the first shovels of earth are placed in the grave. Three miles away, at another funeral home, even larger crowds line up to view remains of Bonnie Parker. But her funeral and interment is attended only close friends and family, including a younger sister (temporarily on leave from prison) accused of killing two highway patrolmen.

Date: 1934
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033725