| Service Men Become Naturalized US Citizens | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1597 |
| Catalog #: | 512609 | |
| Clip Number: | 512609-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 027-552 | |
| Timecode: | 00:37:47 - 00:38:18 | |
| Location: | Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Year Shot: | 1954 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEREMONIES: Civic IMMIGRATION: Naturalization LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany, Frankfurt WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Defector | |
| Description: | In Frankfurt a bit of an American tradition is enacted on foreign soil. Under supervision of American Officers 104 soldiers are naturalized in a mass ceremony. Representing 34 countries, including the Russian Ukraine, they take the oath of loyalty to the United States. Most had fled from the Iron Curtin Countries following the war. The Rhine with a transport barge on the water. MLS - US Military Officials. MLS/CU - American Officers sitting on a stage. MCUS/LL - 104 Foreign soldiers sitting in an audience. CUS - Some of the faces of the soldiers getting naturalized in the mass ceremony. MLS - The 104 soldiers standing the oath of loyalty to the United States. | |
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