U.S. President Herbert Hoover on the 1932 presidential reelection campaign trail in Des Moines Iowa, during the Great Depression. A banner across a main street shows his picture and reads "Iowa Welcomes You". A motorcade carrying the President, is accompanied by supporters walking alongside. Spectators on both sides of the streets watch the President pass by. Some confetti can be seen floating in the air. The President waves from his car. The State Capitol building appears in the background. Citizens disappointed with current economic hard times make their feelings known by following the Presidents motorcade in trucks, motorcars and on horseback. Farm workers in a truck send their message on a sign reading "Hoovers Farm Relief. First - Foreclosure. Then -This". A sign on the back of another truck reads 'In Hoover We Trusted, Now We Are Busted'. Two men ride horses carrying signs on the horses' rear ends reading: "Hoover Put Us Here".
U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky HRS-1 helicopters of HMR-161 Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron, First Marine Air Wing, transport troops and supplies during the Korean War. The USMC 'HR 2' flies over mountains. Marine sitting in open doorway of the chopper, in flight.. It lands among Marines at a mountainous outpost. U.S. Marines, in combat gear,leave the helicopter. They unload the helicopter and carry equipment away. Helicopters number 'HR 10' and "HR 11" landing with troops aboard. U.S. Marines leave the helicopters and proceed single file to their assigned positions. Marines unpacking supplies. They dig trench and set up a machine gun. Marines unpacking ammunition boxes, flares (Trip.M48), and hand grenades.
French paratroops preparing to board JU-52 (Amiot AaC 1 Toucan) trimotor transport aircraft for an air drop. Puppy dog mascot seen amongst their packs. They board the aircraft. Views of French paratroops descending from the JU-52 tromotor aircraft, and landing in a field in Indochina.
Supplies are parachuted to French troops battling Viet Minh in Diên Biên Phu. A bulldozer is air dropped using five parachutes, on November 21, 1953. A French fighter bomber dives low over a Viet Minh position. French troops fire field artillery piece. Smoke rises all around the battlefield. French infantry fight their way up a wooded hillside (many trees broken from combat effects). They fire small arms and mortars. They cook over open fires. Aerial view of French encampment at Diên Biên Phu, in February, 1954, with smoke rising from many small fires.
Arrival of units of 7th Australian Division at an air field in Nadzab, New Guinea. A C-47 plane lands at Nadzab airfield. Planes and units of 7th Australian Division on the airfield. The troops unload the plane. The C-47 takes off. Troops disembark from the plane and unload supplies. The plane is in flight. At the airfield the troops unload the planes. A soldier erects a direction board which reads 'Assembly Area' and another soldier holds a direction board which reads 'Transit Camp'. A C-47 takes off. Planes and soldiers at the airfield. (World War II period).
Italian aviator, General Francesco de Pinedo, attempts takeoff in his Bellanca airplane, named the Santa Lucia. The Italian flag is painted on the aircraft rudder. The ship is heavily laden with fuel for a solo long-distance flight from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Baghdad, Iraq. The aircraft is seen to wander during the takeoff roll and with loss of control, crashes near a fence alongside the runway. The aircraft breaks into pieces, and with one wing sticking straight up in the air, begins to burn. It is immediately consumed in fire. Vehicles rush to the scene. Hangar number 6, at Floyd Bennett field, can be seen in background, with "Erickson and Remmert, Inc." painted on it. De Pinedo died in the accident.
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