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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1683-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1943,
Country: USA
Location: Fort Shafter,Hawaii,Honolulu
TC Begins: 10:42:08
TC Ends: 10:44:54
Duration: 00:02:46
WWII - 1943, Hawaii: Fort Shafter Awards Ceremony, 16Aug43 Officers at attention on Fort Shafter, Hawaii parade ground, units of soldiers marching in review; army band marching. 10:42:56 Officers saluting; walk past assembled troops. 10:43:34 Officer at microphone reading from paper. MCU Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, Hawaiian Department Commander, pins Distinguished Service Medal upon Brigadier General H.C. Holmes, new chief of staff of Hawaiian Department. Then pins another Distinguished Service Medal on Brigadier Gen. L.E. Boyd, former chief of staff of Hawaiian Dept. Salute. 10:43:55 LS across parade ground w/ assembled troops & palm trees behind. Officers walking past troops. Units march off. WW2; Medals; Presentation Ceremony;