Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. Project quot;Manquot; (Visit of the President) Fort Benning, Georgia

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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. Project quot;Manquot; (Visit of the President) Fort Benning, Georgia

1960

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VS, high-ranking officers and civilians taking their places in stand for ceremony of the unveiling of the "Ultimate Weapon" - The Infantryman Statue. MSs, Sec. of Army Wilber M. Brucker talking to soldiers. MS, pan spectators in stand. MLS, unveiling of the Infantryman Statue. MS, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Sec. Brucker, and Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer having refreshments during break in demonstration. VS, Presidential plane taxis to stop. The President and party leave the plane and are greeted by officers. LS, President Eisenhower receives salute and reviews Honor Guard.

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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...

Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981

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Brucker, Wilber Marion, 1894-1968

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