Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. Ceremony for unknown war dead, Yokosuka, Japan

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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. Ceremony for unknown war dead, Yokosuka, Japan

1956

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VS, pallbearers and Honor Guard standing around caskets in dockyard area prior to commencement of ceremonies. CU, Gen. Lemnitzer arriving for ceremony. CU, Lt. Gen. R. Bierwith (British) making speech at rostrum. CUs, Honor Guard. US Marine, Navy, Army and Air Force riflemen from Guard troop. CU, pallbearers carrying flag-draped caskets up ramp to deck of cruiser. MCU, Navy and Air Force pallbearers carrying two caskets up ramp. LS, Honor Guard firing volley into air. MS, Gen. Bierwith speaking on platform. VS, assembled dignitaries and military personnel observing ceremony. CU, Gen. Lemnitzer speaking. MS, military pallbearers marching alongside caskets. VS, sailors from "Manchester" casting off mooring ropes. MCU, two sailors pull mooring rope aboard. MLS, LS (rear view), Manchester as it pulls away from dock. VS, assembled formations awaiting commencement of ceremony on dock.

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Lemnitzer, Lyman L. (Lyman Louis), 1899-1988

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Lyman Louis Lemnitzer (August 29, 1899 – November 12, 1988) was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He received his commission in the Coast Artillery Corps from West Point in 1920 and was an instructor at West Point from 1926 to 1930, and again in 1934 and 1935. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1936 and the Army War College in 1940 and saw duty with war plans division and the staff of Army Ground Forces from May 1941 to June 1942. He reached the rank of brigadier general in...

Bierwirth, Rudolph, 1899-1993

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