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USAREUR Screen Digest NR 6 1959
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1959 United States Army Europe (USAREUR) newsreel. National Archives 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 tournament. Trophies are given to the winner." National Archives Identifier: 28316 Listed as " USAREUR [screen digest NR 6-1959.: Rememberance Day 1959, Ettelbruck, Luxembourg ; Schramberg flood, Germany ; Americans train Ethiopian pilots, Ethiopia ; Return…
Directors & creators
United States. Army
Subjects
United States. Army, Newsreel, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy, Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945 -- Death And Burial, Cold War, United States. -- Army -- Parachute Infantry Regiment, 505th, Ethiopia, Gavin, James M. (James Maurice), 1907-1990
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