Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. DEDICATION OF THE NORMANDY-AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL, ST. LAURENT, 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. DEDICATION OF THE NORMANDY-AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL, ST. LAURENT, FRANCE

1956

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LS, gate entrance. CU, inscription on gate: "Normandy-American Cemetery and Memorial". MS, map on wall shows the 6th June 1944 amphibious assault landing. LS, statue. LS, pan, white crosses. MS, LS, French flag. CU, inscription on chapel: "This Chapel Has Been Erected By The United States of America In Grateful Memory Of Her Sons Who Gave Their Lives In the Landing Of The Normandy Beaches And In The Liberation Of Northern France". LS, chapel. MS, crowd. LS crowd in foreground, memorial in background. LS, VS, Adm Thomas Kinkaid, US Navy, and Robert C Joyce, Deputy Chief of Mission, address audience. VS, Maj Gen William J Donavan, US Army, and Gen Ganeval, France, read messages from their respective presidents. LS, CU, Francois Tanguy-Prigent, Minister Des Anciens Combattants addresses the audience. LS, Honorable Wilber M Brucker, Sec. of Army, gives dedication speech. CU, squad fires volley.

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