FRENCH AWARDS, FRANKFURT, GERMANY ; POLISH TROOPS IN CASSINO, ITALY Part 2

Description

Signal Corps .11 DC ADC 5539 539-1SOURCE: AFCF (M-2082 & R-651-6-HR) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 746' ea Silent FRENCH AWARDS Frankfort, Germany 26 Oct 45 (M-2082) VS, Gen Pierre Koenig, CO French Zone of occupation in Germany, decorates twenty-five US officers with the Legion of Honor. Among those decorated are, Maj Gen Harold R Bull, Maj Gen Albert W Kenner, Brig Gen Raymond G Moses, Brig Gen Stanley R Michelsen, Brig Gen A Franklin Kibler, Brig Gen Edwin L Sibert, Brig Gen Thomas J Davis, and Brig Gen Cornelius E Ryan. For additional names of officers of lower rank see original caption sheets. MS, Gen Koenig and Gen Dwight D Eisenhower. VS, Gen Koenig and Lt Gen Walter B Smith in front of the IG Farben building take salute from Honor Guard. MS, Gen Eisenhower stepping out of staff car. VS, French band and US Honor Guard parade past. MLS, twenty-five officers march out on field. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/lzw RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Signal Corps ADC 5539 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-2082 & R-651-6-HR) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 746 ea Silent 539-2 POLISH TROOPS IN CASSINO, ITALY (No Captions) (R-651-6-HR) VS, Polish light artillery crews loading and firing 57mm guns from dugouts. LS, shells bursting on wrecked buildings. VS, troops washing trucks in stream; Italian women wash clothing in fg. CUs, Polish gun crews relaxing and playing cards. VS, troops reading Polish newspapers. LS, observation plane landing. VS, Polish pilots gathered near observation planes and reading newspapers. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/lzw Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities