DEFENCE MINISTERS OF THE FIFTEEN NATO NATIONS VISIT NATO HEADQUARTERS TO MEET GENERAL NORSTAD, 14 DECEMBER 1961; US ARMY SPECIAL WARFARE CENTRE, FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA, 17 APRIL 1962; MRS NORSTAD IS PRESENTED WITH MEDAILLE D'HONNEUR IN CEREMONY AT VAL DE GRACE, PARIS, 17 MAY 1962; BYRON GENTRY, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, VISITS SHAPE HEADQUARTERS, 8 NOVEMBER 1962 [Allocated Title]
Title:DEFENCE MINISTERS OF THE FIFTEEN NATO NATIONS VISIT NATO HEADQUARTERS TO MEET GENERAL NORSTAD, 14 DECEMBER 1961; US ARMY SPECIAL WARFARE CENTRE, FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA, 17 APRIL 1962; MRS NORSTAD IS PRESENTED WITH MEDAILLE D'HONNEUR IN CEREMONY AT VAL DE GRACE, PARIS, 17 MAY 1962; BYRON GENTRY, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, VISITS SHAPE HEADQUARTERS, 8 NOVEMBER 1962 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NAT 1756
Other titles:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Defence Ministers of NATO nations visit NATO headquarters. In conference room at NATO Headquarters, Paris, General Norstad, General Heusinger, General Stockwell and a US Admiral pose for photographs. NATO parliamentarians enter the room and take their seats (none identified). Military delegation (including General Lemnitzer) present.
Training scenes at the US Army Special Warfare Centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina: featured are training room, Morse code transmitter and hand generator being used in the field, first aid in the field, scaling and repiling on tower, building an anti-personnel stake trap, demolition briefing, blowing up railway track, final briefings, paratroops in action.
Remainder of reels as per titles (in addition; Byron Gentry is greeted at SHAPE headquarters by General Norstad).
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Alternative Title:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]