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This clip is Part 2 of a 4-part film. Watch from the beginning

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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 2

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.

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Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection

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Date
1959-01-01
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3:07