Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. Fox festival, Japan ; Installation ceremony of Chief Executive Jugo Toma, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands ; Emperor Haile Selassie presenting plaque to General L. L. Lemni

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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. Fox festival, Japan ; Installation ceremony of Chief Executive Jugo Toma, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands ; Emperor Haile Selassie presenting plaque to General L. L. Lemnitzer, Tokyo Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan

1956

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Parishioners of a Shinto Shrine bring the fox god to a newly constructed temple. The masks in the procession are symbols representing the god. VS, children with their mothers in ceremonial dress; mothers fuss over the children and keep adjusting their dress (Excellent CUs). LS, Temple of the Fox. VS, group of musicians under an awning playing native instruments. VS, two men wearing fox masks leading the procession. VS, men, women, children, geisha girls in procession. VS, priests playing instruments and carrying religious treasures. LS, crowd approaching and entering temple. MS, fox mask mounted on temple pillar. VS, children playing native instruments in the orchestra. VS, crowds watching the orchestra. CU, children watching. -- VS, Lt. Gen. James E. Moore, Deputy Governor, and party entering the office of Jugo Toma before the ceremony. PAN, crowds in the street observing the ceremony. VS, Secretary General, GRI, Shuden Higa, making opening remarks at mike. VS, Chief Executive Toma addressing the crowd. VS, Brig. Gen. Vonna F. Bruger, Civil Administrator; Tatsubin Yogi, Speaker of the Legislature; Keiso Nakamatsu, Chief Justice, Ryukyu Court of Appeals; and shots of the crowd. VS, closing remarks by Higa. VS, handshakes between Gen. Moore and Toma. -- Farewell reception given by Emperor Haile Selassie for Gen. L. L. Lemnitzer UNC/FEC Commander. A plaque was presented by the Emperor to the General in appreciation for his leadership of the Ethiopian expeditionary Force of the UN Command in Korea. Members of the military and the diplomatic corps attended including Crown Prince Akihito of Japan.

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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...

Moore, James E. (James Edward), 1902-1986

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James E. Moore was a United States (U.S.) Army officer. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point in the Class of 1924. During WWII, he was Chief of Staff (CofS) of the Ninth (9th) Army, ETO. After the war, he was the Army Commander, Okinawa, and High Commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands. He also served as CofS of SHAPE from 1959-1963. From the description of James E. Moore photograph collection. 1944-1960. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id...