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A military parade is a formation of soldiers whose movement is restricted by close-order manoeuvering known as drilling or marching. Large military parades are today held on major holidays and military events around the world. Massed parades may also hold a role for propaganda purposes, being used to exhibit the apparent military strength of a ...
Fort Worth celebrated Armistice Day Nov. 11, 1946, with a mile-long parade of veterans of the two world wars. It was made a federal holiday in the U.S. in 1938.
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This, the longest and largest military parade ever held on Red Square in the Soviet capital Moscow, involved 40,000 Red Army soldiers and 1,850 military vehicles and other military hardware. The parade lasted just over two hours on a rainy June 24, 1945, over a month after May 9, the day of Germany's surrender to Soviet commanders.
The parade, beginning at Washington Square, marching up Fifth Avenue, was reported to be four miles long. [3] [5] It was a ticker tape parade, and was covered by newsreels of the time. [1] However, Life magazine reported that it was "oddly subdued", and blamed it on the elimination of many military bands by the demilitarization. [4]
The Free City of Danzig made Hitler an honorary citizen of the city as a birthday gift. Hitler received the citizenship papers from the hands of Albert Forster, the city's Nazi leader. [16] Political and military tension between Germany and Poland was heightened at the time, and Time reported the possibility of Danzig being returned to Germany ...
Beginning in 1940, the Victory Parade was annually held on April 1, designated as "Victory Day," and continued without interruption until 1976. In 1964, the event was renamed the "Peace Parade" to commemorate the 25th anniversary of peace in Spain. Originally established as a national holiday, Victory Day eventually lost this designation.
German troops passing the platform with the officers on September 22, 1939. The German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (German: Deutsch-sowjetische Siegesparade in Brest-Litowsk, Russian: Парад вермахта перед частями РККА в Бресте) was an official ceremony held by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on September 22, 1939, during the ...