Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. NATO MILITARY COMMITTEE MEETING, PARIS, FRANCE

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. NATO MILITARY COMMITTEE MEETING, PARIS, FRANCE

1952

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Gens Alfred M. Gruenther, Matthew B. Ridgway, J. Lawton Collins, Adm Lynde D. McCormick, SACLANT, other NATO military officers enter conference room at Palais de Chaillot. Members from Greece, France, Denmark, Canada, Belgium seated at conference table. Lt. Gen Charles Foulkes, Canada, Chairman Military Committee; Gruenther and members of Saclant also at table. Two Ext views of the base of the Eiffel Tower as seen from the Palais. NATO military and civilian members leave the conference room. MCU, Adm McCormick poses. Gruenther, Ridgway and others enter conference room. Views of members from Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States (Collins and Ridgway) at table. Collins and Ridgway in discussion. Chairman Foulkes, Gruenther, others at table. Collins and Ridgway in discussion. Chairman Foulkes, Gruenther, others at table. As the NATO officials leave conference room Gruenther greets and chats with an unidentified naval officer who shows him some papers. McCormick; RAdm William Kenneth Goodney, USN, COFS SACLANT, pose.

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Collins, J. Lawton (Joseph Lawton), 1896-1987

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Joseph Lawton Collins (1896-1987) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. After his graduation from West Point in 1917, he commissioned with the infantry. He served with the American forces in Germany from 1919 to 1921. Between 1921 and 1931, he taught at West Point and the Infantry School. He graduated from Command and General Staff School in 1933 and the Army Industrial College in 1937. Upon graduation from the Army War College in 1938, he became an instructor there. In 1941, he left to serve as c...

Ridgway, Matthew B. (Matthew Bunker), 1895-1993

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General Matthew Bunker Ridgway (March 3, 1895 – July 26, 1993) was a senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1952–1953) and the 19th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1953–1955). He fought with distinction during World War II, where he was the Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division, leading it in action in Sicily, Italy and Normandy, before taking command of the newly formed XVIII Airborne Corps in August 1944. He held the latter...

Gruenther, Alfred M. (Alfred Maximilian), 1899-1983

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Alfred Maximilian Gruenther (1899-1983) was a military officer, educator, bridge expert, and author. Nicknamed "the Brain" by colleagues, Gruenther was respected worldwide for his extraordinary analytical and strategic skills as a staff officer and soldier-diplomat. Gruenther's career of nearly forty years in the U.S. Army reached a pinnacle in 1951, when he was named chief of staff at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters and became, at fifty-three years of age, the youngest fo...

McCormick, Lynde Dupuy, 1895-1956

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U.S. Navy officer. From the description of Papers of Lynde Dupuy McCormick, 1909-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449409 ...

Foulkes, Charles, 1903-1969

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