GEN PATTON MEETS THE RUSSIANS, NEAR LINZ, AUSTRIA Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 4414 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1729) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 660' ea Silent +414-1 LIB 6647 GEN PATTON MEETS THE RUSSIANS Near Linz, Austria 12 May 1945 LSs, MSs, soldiers of the US 3rd Armored Div marching. Seq: Lt Gen George S Patton, Jr, CG, Third US Army, arrives by plane with staff officers. MSs, Gen Patton awarding Legion of Merit to Lt Gen Mikoner Dimitrievitch Zahwataeff, Commander of the 4th Russian Garde Army; Maj GenDimitry Trofimovitch Shepeeloff; Lt Gen Mikel Pantelwitch Zikal, 3rd Artillery CO,, 4th Garde Army; and Lt Gen Kuzma N Derevyanko, Chief of Staff, 4th Garde Army. NOTE: Also present at ceremonies were the following US officers: Maj Gen Stanley E Reinhardt, CG, 65th InfDiv, Third US Army; Brig Gen William A Collier, Chief of Staff, XX Corps; Brig Gen John E Koplan, Asst Div Commander, 65th Inf Div; Maj Gen R. Hobart Gay, Chief of Staff, Third US Army. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Signal Corps ADC 4414 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1729) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 660'ea Silent 4414-2 LIB 6647 GEN PATTON MEETS THE RUSSIANS (Cont'd) Near Linz, Austria 12 May 1945 (Cont'd) CUs, Lt Gen Walton H Walker, CO, XX Corps. MSs, Gens Patton and Walker and other US officers standing with Russian Generals. NOTE: Also present at ceremonies were the following US officers: Maj Gen Stanley E Reinhardt, CG, 65th Inf Div, Third US Army; Brig Gen William A Collier, Chief, of Staff, XX Corps; Brig Gen John E Koplan, Asst Div Commander, 65th Inf Div; Maj Gen R Hobart Gay, Chief of Staff, Third US Army. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities