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 Part 1

Description

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.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection