Anonymous ID: eb9c7d July 22, 2019, 11:35 p.m. No.7143176   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3203

…General Douglas MacArthur led the Army troops, along with his aide Major Dwight D. Eisenhower and an able tank commander, Major George S. Patton. Under President Hoover’s orders to drive the protesters back across the Anacostia River, the Army was in position in the late afternoon. Once the order was given, the troops advanced with tanks, fixed bayonets, and tear gas to drive away the crowd of veterans back across the bridge.

 

Hoover twice sent messages to MacArthur to not cross the bridge, but MacArthur ignored them and continued pressing into the BEF camp on the Anacostia Flats on the far side of the river. The camp was still inhabited by about 10,000 people, who were driven off by the cavalry with tanks and tear gas. Then the infantry followed, setting fire to the shanties. DC’s hospitals were overwhelmed with the wounded. Operationally, the exercise was seen as a success by the Army. The Bonus Expeditionary Forces had been dispersed permanently….

 

https://www.nps.gov/articles/bonus-expeditionary-forces-march-on-washington.htm

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

 

Bonus Expeditionary Forces March on Washington

Anacostia Park

 

"If the Army must be called out to make war on unarmed citizens, this is no longer America."

-Washington Daily News

Anonymous ID: eb9c7d July 22, 2019, 11:41 p.m. No.7143203   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>7143176

>Bonus Expeditionary Forces

 

Bonus Army Riots in Washington, D.C., July 1932

 

This video shows D.C. policemen dragging veterans from a Pennsylvania Avenue warehouse and loading them onto trucks. Cavalry and tank units patrol the city. Shacks used by the Bonus Army are burned. Veterans are routed by tear gas. The film also shows the Bonus Army camp facilities at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, established after the marchers were evicted from Washington, D.C.

 

Much of the video is silent, including the beginning. You can also watch it in our main National Archives online catalog.

This primary source comes from the Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer.

National Archives Identifier: 24730

Full Citation: Motion Picture 111-H-1225; Bonus Army Riots in Washington, D.C., July 1932; 7/1932; Historical Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1936; Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/bonus-army-riots, July 23, 2019]

 

https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/bonus-army-riots

 

https://youtu.be/hB2kbbRpy5g