Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. USAREUR screen digest NR 6-1959.: Rememberance Day 1959, Ettelbruck, Luxembourg ; Schramberg flood, Germany ; Americans train Ethiopian pilots, Ethiopia ; Return t

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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. USAREUR screen digest NR 6-1959.: Rememberance Day 1959, Ettelbruck, Luxembourg ; Schramberg flood, Germany ; Americans train Ethiopian pilots, Ethiopia ; Return to Normandy, France ; Schutzenfest, Heidelberg, Germany ; Kaiserslautern post golf tournament, Ramstein AFB, Germany

1959

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Officers and dignitaries attend services and place wreaths at monument in tribute to General George S. Patton Jr. -- US Army Engineers help German Engineers repair town after flash flood. -- LS, Ethiopian guard at entrance to airfield. MS, control tower. Ethiopians being examined by American doctors. American instructors working with the Ethiopian pilots in classroom and in the T-33 jet trainer. MSs, LS, T-33 taxis and takes off. -- Soldiers of the 505th Airborne Regt. recreate D-Day parachute jump. Men board plane, jump and land in field near Ste Mere Eglise. Ceremony in town square. MS, Gen. James M. Gavin (Ret) speaking from stand. -- Americans and Germans, at shooting festival compete in various shooting contests. The ladies participate in rolling-pin-throwing contest and he children in a bubble-gum-blowing contest. Officers and men playing in tournarnent. Trophies are given to the winner.

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Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...

Gavin, James M. (James Maurice), 1907-1990

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James Maurice Gavin (b. Mar. 22, 1907-d. Feb. 23, 1990) was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received his commission in the infantry from West Point in 1929, and later served as an instructor at the Academy in 1940 and 1941. He advanced to the rank of brigadier general in September 1943 and served as Assistant Division Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, parachuting with troops during the Normandy D-Day Invasion on June 6, 1944. He then served as the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Di...