MDAP (MUTUAL DEFENCE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME) GRADUATES ITS THOUSANDTH STUDENT AT FÜRSTENFELDBRUCK AIR BASE, GERMANY, 7 APRIL 1956; PORTUGUESE OFFICERS VISIT SHAPE HEADQUARTERS, 17 JULY 1956; ITALIAN OFFICERS VISIT SHAPE HEADQUARTERS, 17 JULY 1956 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MDAP (MUTUAL DEFENCE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME) GRADUATES ITS THOUSANDTH STUDENT AT FÜRSTENFELDBRUCK AIR BASE, GERMANY, 7 APRIL 1956; PORTUGUESE OFFICERS VISIT SHAPE HEADQUARTERS, 17 JULY 1956; ITALIAN OFFICERS VISIT SHAPE HEADQUARTERS, 17 JULY 1956 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: NAT 1532
  • Other titles: SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: One reel showing activities of the Mutual Defence Assistance Programme. A further reel containing visits of officers to SHAPE Headquarters at Rocquencourt.
  • Description: MDAP celebrates its thousandth student graudating. Instructions are provided in a classroom by a US Air Force Captain to a French officer - a student on the MDAP (Mutual Defence Assistance Programme) - who is then shown climbing into a jet aircraft and being secured into position prior to take-off. MDAP graduation exercise at Fürstenfeldbruck air base, Germany: Colonel Mark A Vinzant (CO) gives the opening address as VIPs watch, before giving the soldier's medal to the Chaplain (Captain W Travers) and awarding diplomas, including one to Lieutenant Solie of Belgium (the thousandth MDAP student). 11th Airborne band plays. Portuguese officers arrive at SHAPE headquarters by bus and meet General Gruenther: they include Colonel Carlos Miguel Lopes da Silva Freire (Director of the Portuguese Staff College). Others present include Brigadier General P M Renaud of France and Air Marshal Constantine. Italian officers visit SHAPE HQ. Paolo Taviani arrives at SHAPE headquarters by car, and is greeted by Admiral Rossi, Colonel E L Robbins and Major General Umberto de Martino (NMR Italy). At the end of the visit, General Gruenther and General Norstad leave the building with Taviani and bid farewell.
  • Alternative Title: SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
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  • Object_Number: NAT 1532
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  • Access Conditions: IWM NATO © NATO (IWM, NAT 1532)
  • Featured Period: 1945-1989
  • Production Date: 1956-04-07-1956-04-07
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  • Production Details:North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Sponsor) Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (Production company)
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  • Physical Characteristics:Colour format: B&W
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