LIEUTENANT GENERAL ADOLF HEUSINGER, CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL, GERMANY, VISITS GENERAL GRUENTHER AT SHAPE HEADQUARTERS (CA) DECEMBER 1955; ITALIAN MINISTERS CONFERENCE AT THE PALAIS DE CHAILLOT, 14 DECEMBER 1955; INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF 5TH ALLIED TACTICAL AIR FORCE, VINCENZA, ITALY, 3 JANUARY 1956 [Allocated Title]
Title:LIEUTENANT GENERAL ADOLF HEUSINGER, CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL, GERMANY, VISITS GENERAL GRUENTHER AT SHAPE HEADQUARTERS (CA) DECEMBER 1955; ITALIAN MINISTERS CONFERENCE AT THE PALAIS DE CHAILLOT, 14 DECEMBER 1955; INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF 5TH ALLIED TACTICAL AIR FORCE, VINCENZA, ITALY, 3 JANUARY 1956 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NAT 1518
Other titles:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Reel with content as per titles.
Description:Lieutenant General Adolf Heusinger visits SHAPE HQ. Also present is Brigadier Lionel Cross, NATO Chief of Public Information.
GVs of Eiffel Tower and Palais de Chaillot. Paolo Taviani, Italian Defence Minister, arrives with his aides at the Palais for the Italian Ministers' Conference. Delegates from other NATO nations arrive: Antoine Pinay, General Gruenther, John Foster Dulles, German delegation. Various delegates have a cigarette before entering. Inside the conference room, discussions get underway. Other people are present, including Lord Ismay, General Norstad, General Collins, Theodore Blank (Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany) and Hans Speidel.
Dignitaries at 5th ATAF base at Vicenza, Italy: Lieutenant General Patrick W Timberlake (USAF, Commander AAFSE), General Ferdinando Rafaelli (Chief of Staff, Italian Air Force), General Keklermann and General Lalatta. Italian Air Force Band plays and troops assemble in front of the headquarters. Dignitaries stand on review platform and salute American and Italian colour guard. Flag-raising ceremony: band plays, troops, dignitaries and Italian Catholic priest salute. Aircraft fly overhead.
Alternative Title:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
