General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. OPERATION GLORY

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. OPERATION GLORY

1956

1) MS Across the dock of the Manchester, GL-83, to the military escorte and pallbearers carrying caskets of the unknown American dead from the Korean War (they will be carried to, Pearl Harbor where they will be buried in the National Memorial Cometery of the Pacific (SV; different angles).2) MCU The escorts, in ranks, with rifles at right shoulder arms (these are men from all the cervices).3) MCU Ranks of Marinos with riflos at precent arms.4) LS Honor Guard, from the four branches of service, honoring the Unknown; ship's crew in bg.5) LS Same as before.6) HA LS Speaker's stand on the dock; verious high-ranking officers.7) LS Services lined on the dock; Marine escort aboard ship.8) HA MS Crowd of civilian and military during the ceremony.9) LS Invocation is given by Cdr. P. B. Wintersteen, CHG, USN, Naval Forces Far East; civilians and military personnel on the dock with their hoads bowed.10) MLS Escorting Honor Guard and pallboarors, headed by the chaplain, coming up the brow.11) MS View of the brow.12) HA MS The escorts and Honor Guards with the pallbearers boarding with the caskete.13) HA MS Overlooking the storn of the ship; pallbearers positioning the caskets.14) MS Ranks of servicemen (four branches); Air Force men with rifles at parade rest in fg.15) MS Brow is being lifted by a crane prior to ship's getting underway; smoke emerging from stack.16) MS Starboard side of the ship.17) MS After part of the ship.18) LS From the deck of the ship to the dock; Honor Guard and pallbearers with caskets.19) HA MS Speaker's stand.20) HA MS Crowd in the stands wrapped in blankets.21) HA MLS Flags of the various services; caskets with Honor Guards in ranks.22) MS Honor Guard before caskets on deck; 8" guns in view.23) MCU Gen. L. L. Lemnitzer, USA, addressing crowd.24) MS Caskets and Honor Guard on the dock.25) MS The chaplain and a bugler leaving the Manchester.26) HA MS Chaplain and bugler leaving the brow and walking toward the Honor Guard.27) MS Arms stacked on the dock.28) MCU Air Force guard in front of the caskets.29) MS Honor Guard carrying caskets toward the brow of the Manchester.30) CU Air Force pallbearers carrying the first casket.31) MCU Navy pallbearers carrying caskets; Honor Guard behind (SV; different angles).QUALITY GOOD

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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...