Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. CPX AT CAMP VOLUCEAU, SHAPE, 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. CPX AT CAMP VOLUCEAU, SHAPE, FRANCE

1953

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Arrival of high-ranking officers, including Field Marshal Montgomery, Gen Omar Bradley, Gen Ridgway, Lord Mountbatten, etc. The high-ranking officers mentioned and others walking on the grounds of the camp. Mountbatten chatting with an officer. Int, showing caps of the high-ranking officers on rack. MSs, officers of NATO countries talking on the grounds. CU, sign: CPX Two". Cars entering the CPX area. Two guards at entrance to area with sign above: "Passes To Be Shown". Many cars parked in the area. CU of two, three and four-star plates on automobiles. Seven-star plate, five-star plate. Shot of concrete building, a theatre, where the meeting was held.

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Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981

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

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Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976

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Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, Earl, 1900-1979

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1916 midshipman; 1918 1st lieutenant; 1932 commander; 1942 chief of combined operations; 1942 acting vice-admiral; 1943 acting admiral and supreme commander designate, south east Asia; 1946 rear-admiral; 1947 Viceroy of India; 1947-1948 Govenor-general of India; 1949 vice-admiral; 1950 4th sea lord of the Admiralty; 1954 1st sea lord of the Admiralty; 1956 admiral of the fleet; 1959-1965 chief of defense staff; 1965 Governor of the Isle of Wight. Honours: 1920 MVO; 1922...