Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. Certificate of Commendation to Maj. Chester E. Whiting, US Army Field Band, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

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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. Certificate of Commendation to Maj. Chester E. Whiting, US Army Field Band, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

1957

[Continuation of LC 41043] Two soldiers of the honor guard march up to the stand before the start of the ceremony. Notables, civilian and miltary, take their places in the stand. MCUs, Gen. Lemnitzer and Sec. Brucker seated. Maj. Whiting directing the Army band. Cut-ins of spectators in the inner court. Maj. Whiting making his acceptance speech.

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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...

Brucker, Wilber Marion, 1894-1968

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