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Delegates from 51 nations meet for Convention on International Civil Aviation in Chicago.
Scenes from the first International Civil Aviation Conference (ICAO) in the city of Chicago, Illinois. At the invitation of the United States, delegates from 51 nations arrive to begin drafting and concluding the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention), including discussion on freedom of aircraft traffic in the world's aviation routes. Opening scene shows the Stevens Hotel at 720 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States, with automobile traffic driving past it on the street. Delegates from 51 nations are seen entering the hotel Grand ballroom, being monitored by U.S. Army Military police, as they enter. View from inside the ballroom as delegates enter. Some are seen standing around a globe of the world, discussing the transfer of military air routes back to civilian operations, in the future after the end of World War 2. View from a balcony of the delegates gathered below. Closeups of delegates from: Belgium; a military aviator in uniform, representing Haiti; delegates from Iraq, India, Australia, and Norway. Assistant Secretary of State, Adolf A. Berle Jr., Head of the U.S. delegation, delivers a brief welcoming speech, on behalf of President Roosevelt, from a podium behind which flags of participating nations are displayed. He speaks of the importance of freedom of air space, noting that closed air space can lead to war. He says that the air which God gave to everyone, should not become the means of domination over anyone.
German forces launch a counter offensive after the Allied 1944 invasion at Normandy during World War II
Film shows map of the Ardennes region of Germany and Belgium. In the dark of night, German artillery and rockets are seen being launched against Allied forces in a counter offensive in the Ardennes during World War 2. In daylight, clouds of dark smoke lay across the horizon partially obscuring the rising sun. A German officer signals for artillery to fire, and a heavy gun barrel is seen recoiling as it fires. Shells exploding in the distance. German gunners firing an LeFH 18 howitzer hidden under branches of foliage. Rockets launchers (Nebelwerfers) firing. Explosions in the distance. German troops in trenches. Several views of howitzers firing. American prisoners marching past Dragons Teeth antitank barriers at the Ziegfried line (Western Wall). German soldiers riding on Stug III Ausf. F tank destroyers. A half track (Sd.Kfz.251) passing a line of American prisoners walking in the opposite direction at side of muddy road with their hands over their heads. View from the rear of the U.S. soldiers escorted by German soldiers. German infantry advancing single file along the side of a road. Some carry panzerfaust anti tank weapons. Others carry MG 42 machine guns and belt ammunition. View from rear of the German infantry entering woods. Dead American soldiers lying in a group in bluff overlooking a body of water. American steel helmets scattered on the ground. More views of dead U.S. soldiers.
Kaiser Wilhelm II meets military officials as German forces depart Germany during WWI
The Imperial German Army (“Deutsches Heer” in German) leaves for Belgium and France after the German Empire declares war on Russia and France in World War 1. A steam locomotive train moves past a forest, moving slowly beside a crowd of Imperial German troops. German troops march out after the train has come to a full stop. German Army officials greet each other. German Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands with a high-ranking military official. German military officials inspect infantry. Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands firmly with a German military officer after raising his clenched fist in the air.
German bicycle soldiers stand at attention with bikes, WW1
German soldiers riding bicycles, possibly in Belgium, in World War 1. A German officer blows horn, summoning troops to their places. A general inspects infantry at attention. Soldiers place their rifles at attention. German soldiers, wearing the Pickelhaube helmet, ride bicycles
German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg departs for the Reichstag, honor guards in military parade in Berlin (WW1)
German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg enters a car to leave for the Reichstag to give speech declaring war, start of WWI. Honor guards assist and salute Chancellor. Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg as he heads for the Reichstag to declare war on Belgium and France. Crowds of Germans salute with their hats. Honor guards on horseback and soldiers marching with flags during a military parade in Berlin. Civilians march along soldiers in parade. People wave good-bye as mobilized German soldiers leave for World War I on the train.
Germans building fortifications in the Maginot and Siegfried lines (WW2)
German fortifications in the Maginot and Siegfried Lines in World War 2. Illustrated map of Western Europe depicting Great Britain, Netherlands, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium and Germany during World War 2. The Swastika symbol is shown on the German-occupied side. German soldiers and slave labor workers digging ditches for fortification. Shadows of men digging ditches. Men building tank barriers and roadblocks. A man twists a wire in place. Men constructing a bunker. German troops marching on the beach under watch by soldiers with guns. German troops enter a bunker. German soldiers ducking to go through a bunker door one by one. Nazi German soldiers push a field gun to a camouflaged underground bunker. German soldier puts down his telephone. A howitzer in a German fortification facing the coast. Gun turrets moving up. German soldiers with a Karl-Gerät siege mortar called “Thor” during the Battle of Sevastopol. Nazi German railgun “Schwerer Gustav” during the Battle of Sevastopol. German soldiers load a 7.1 ton shell to the “Schwerer Gustav” railgun. A German officer uses a telescope. Dragon’s teeth tank obstacles in the Siegfred Line fortification in Western Germany. Barbed wire fences in a battlefield.
