American artists, musicians and sculptors living in Italy. An African American woman playing classical music on a grand piano. An American man plays the violin. A scholar studies mural art from an Italian professor at the American Academy in Rome (Via Angelo Masina, 5, 00153 Roma RM, Italy). Student and teacher analyze murals together. A copper bust of Albert Einstein. A sculptor welds a copper sculpture. A sculptor rotates a simple sculpture. Modernist sculptures on display. A sculptor makes a model of Saint Francis of Assisi. A modernist statue model of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Sculptor sculpts the beard of a Saint Francis of Assisi model statue. A sculptor etches a model of a Congressional Gold Medal. American composer and pianist, Stanley Walker Hollingsworth, works as a composer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. Stanley Hollingsworth plays a piano.
A tribute to the passing of British Commanding Officer Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey. Funeral of Sir Bertram Ramsey in Saint-Germain-en-Laye New Communal Cemetery during World War II. Sir Ramsey deliberating plans to invade Sicily with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in North Africa. Sir Ramsey exits a building with United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower before the invasion of Normandy. Sir Ramsey and General Eisenhower talking. Military officials and troops attend the funeral and internment of Sir Bertram Ramsey in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The coffin of Sir Ramsey is draped with the Union Jack flag and is carried on a gun carriage on a snow covered road. General Eisenhower and other Allied generals attend the funeral march. British Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) women stand at attention in the snow. A chaplain leads the funeral service. Troops fire the three-volley salute during the military funeral. Dwight Eisenhower and other generals salute and pay their respects.
U.S. Army 29th Division soldiers stand outside mess tents in Saint Lo France (or St. Lo). Men serve food to the soldiers. Soldiers eat food. (World War II period).
U.S. Army soldiers of the 29th Division sit and rest near Saint Lo France. Some eat food and other smoke cigarettes. View of an empty mess kit. A soldier chooses a vinyl record and puts it on a phonograph turntable connected to large broadcast speakers. They play the record for the soldiers to enjoy some music.
Shows American 70th and 71st Coast Artillery troops at Saint Nazaire (France) embarking the transport vessel, SS Manchuria shortly after end of World War 1. The troops are leaving for United States. A soldier checks attendance list of the troops boarding the ship
U.S. 1st Army troops pass an abandoned German pill box near Cambrai, on their way to the Belgian border, during World War 2. U.S. tanks advancing along road to Saint-Quentin on September 1, 1944.Road sign points toward St. Quentin. Some French civilians watch as troops ride into the city aboard military vehicles. American flag is seen at window of a building.September 2nd, lead elements of the 1st Army pass road sign marking boundary between France and Belgium. A road sign on ground at the old formal border reads "Douane Belge." American tanks speed across Belgian fields in pursuit of retreating German soldiers.US units firing tank guns and machine guns at German positions.Smoke rising.Destroyed and burning German artillery, tanks, halftracks, and other vehicles and equipment along side of road.Destroyed civilian automobile and wagons. American troops entering town where Belgian flags fly. German Army Captain, accompanied by U.S. troops, urges his soldiers to surrender.He steps over wire fencing into a field where German soldier are coming forward. View of numerous German prisoners of war being held in a meadow.