Breguet 14 A.2 bombers parked in a row in Clermont, France during World War I. American ground crewmen mounting 155mm bombs under the wing of a Breguet 14 A.2 bomber. U.S. soldier fuses a 155mm bomb. Airman in Breguet 14A.2 bomber winds up bomb release mechanism and looks into a sighting instrument. A bar with pegs on it turning in the wing of Breguet 14 A.2 bomber. Officer closes the hatch of the wing. Officers hold 115mm, 115 long, 115 short and 75mm shells in hand. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Quaker members of American Friends Service Committee help people in France. They work at the Matson Maternelle de la Marne Maternity Hospital in Chalons-sur-Marne, France. Exterior of the hospital. Two nurses come out, holding a baby. Exterior of the hospital which was opened in 1922. Groups of nurses walk in the ground. American, English and French nurses in the hospital. A patient arrives in a horse drawn carriage. Nurses help a pregnant mother to step into hospital. Interior of the hospital ward. Separate ward for dependent children who come in with their mothers. Nurses play with the young children. They feed the babies. Maternity ward. Mother in bed is given baby. Patient leaves hospital with husband and new baby.
An inquiry commission inquires into holocaust mass killings by Nazi Germans at Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland in World War II. Views of many passports and identity cards of prisoners from Poland, Holland, France and other countries. Closeup view of identity card of Homère Fonteneau from Charentais, France, born in 1922. Views of other identity cards including an Italian with first name Bruno, a Dutch man with name P. Janssen, a boy named Constantine and his sister, a girl named Irena Eleanora Peters from Poland. View of prisoners who survived at the concentration camp.
Slate refers to Leinweber brothers helicopter in Chicago. View of their helicopter being moved out of a hangar in 1922. Closeup of helicopter controls being demonstrated. Next, a helicopter of M. Douheret, of France, is shown in 1919. Men stand nearby and watch its rotors turn in the breeze. Engine cylinders are clearly visible. Pilot sits in the machine and adjusts controls. Next he stands and starts engine. Suddenly, the running helicopter tips over and he runs for safety but returns to shut the engine down. In a second attempt, the pilot is again seen standing next to the machine, with its engine running. And, again, he must run to safety, as it tips over. This time it stops running by itself, and other men help him tip it back upright.
A film about Sir Ernest Shackleton's to Antarctica in 1921-1922 (shortly before Shackleton's death on January 5, 1922). An albatross on or near the island of South Georgia. Crew member, naturalist George Hubert Wilkins, walks around the bird in a circle, moving his hand toward the defensive bird. The bird takes off. An albatross seated on a rock.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito officially declares that Japan would no longer abide by the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Hiroshi Saito steps from his car and enters the Old Executive Office building (Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C., United States) in Washington DC. Exterior view of Executive Office building. He descends the steps of the building and enters his car.
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