Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. WORLD WAR II BATTLEGROUNDS (BIG PICTURE), 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. WORLD WAR II BATTLEGROUNDS (BIG PICTURE), FRANCE

1954

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Front of a new modern store building in St Lo. Sign: St Lo. 11 June: Ultra-modern (radical design) cathedral in Metz. Tilt down, old cathedral, Metz. The Porte des Allemonde, part of the old walled city of Metz (1480). Street scene, houses along canal, church on canal in Metz. American soldiers look at remnants of aerial bomb, pass barbed wire entanglements, look under old fortification. Train moves in RR yard. A few cars being shunted. Two couples enter American Military Cemetery in Luxemburg. They look at grave of Gen George S Patton. LSs, crosses on graves. Statue of boar, memorial to Leopold III, CG of Belgian Forces, 1940. Road sign: Bastogne.

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Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...