A German officer hands bouquet of flowers to crewman on a Junkers Ju- 52 airplane displaying registration: D-2600 (Hitler's personal aircraft). German Chancellor Adolf Hitler boards the aircraft with German officers. Interior of aircraft displays flowers and other birthday decorations commemorating the birthday of the Sturmabteilung (SA). German officers and Hitler seated in the airplane. Closeup of Hitler's personal pilot, Johann "Hans" Peter Baur, in uniform of Colonel, Schutzstaffel (SS), wearing service cap displaying Totenkopf (death head) insignia. Views of ground as seen from the airplane in flight. View of passengers in the cabin. Hitler is quietly reading a book. view from cabin window of aircraft's left wing, displaying registration number. As part of the SA birthday celebrations, Hitler and German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Chief Hermann Goring inspect German Air Force aircraft and personnel at an airfield. Hitler greets many of the German officers and airmen. Hitler's airplane is next seen preparing for departure, with engines running, " Lufthansa, " Immelmann II " is painted on its side. It flies a Nazi flag. Military personnel load cargoes into the belly of the aircraft. An officer gives bouquet to another officer aboard the plane. Hitler and Goering complete their inspection of the Air unit. Closeups of Hitler and Goering mingling with the fliers and inspecting Heinkel He-51 bi-wing pursuit airplanes. Scene shifts to destination where Hitler talks to a small girl besides his car. The child holds a small bouquet of flowers for presentation to him. But when Hitler reaches for it, the child changes her mind and holds it back, refusing to give it to the Fuhrer.
U.S. Chief Signal Officer Major General Spencer B. Akin makes a presentation in Washington D.C., United States. Major Akin presents a plaque to Dr. Westmore of the Smithsonian Museum as another U.S. officer looks on. Dr. Westmore holds the award and talks to General Akin.
Washington Officials give entertainer Bob Hope a sendoff in Washington D.C. airport. Senate Majority Leader, Alben Barkley, arrives by car and greets Bob Hope's wife, Delores, with a kiss. Bob Hope clowns around with Senator Barkley, ostensibly drinking liquor from a hollow walking stick. Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson, of Texas is seen in background and later up close. The Bob Hope party boards a U.S. Air Force C-121 (Constellation) airplane. Senator Barkley holds up an official (Congressional) document of some kind.The aircraft engines start and it taxis out.
President Lyndon B. Johnson's voting rights address to Congress in Washington D.C., United States. Very brief segment showing civil rights march and demonstration on a city street with demonstrators carrying placards. President Johnson speaks about progress made through democratic process in the nation. He further speaks about pressures on President of United States. He talks about guaranteeing the right to vote for African Americans. President Johnson describes the voting rights act and how it will work. Crowd applauds. President Johnson shakes hands with speakers and talks to them. President Johnson walks through a crowd.
Allied warplanes in formation flying over Germany during World War II. Extreme closeup of a B-17 bomber in flight. Crew members can be seen in their positions in the cockpit, in the nose and in the top gun turret. Inside a B-17 cockpit, the pilot and copilot are seen wearing their oxygen masks. Closeup of two U.S. Army Air Forces P-51 aircraft supposedly providing fighter escort for B-17s. The nearest is a P-51D-5-NA, tail number 44-13325, VF-Z of the 336th Fighter Squadron,4th Fighter Group (probably flown by Lieutenant Earl F. Hustwit). Next, an African American pilot is shown in the cockpit of a fighter plane. Scene shifts back to the pilots in the B-17. Distant view of B-17 formation with top-cover formation of fighters. Another view of P-51, number 44-13325 and its wingman, in flight. Another view of the African American pilot in his cockpit. Several German Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft flying toward the camera. Three passing the camera.. View of several P-51s in flight. They release their belly drop tanks and peel off, ostensibly to engage German fighters. View of African American pilot, in cockpit, diving with hand on stick, pressing gun firing trigger. Closeup of guns firing from aircraft wing. A German fighter being struck and smoking. More views of the African American pilot in his cockpit. Gun camera view of an American fighter plane pursuing a German aircraft close to the ground. The German plane is hit and explodes. A P-51 flying close to the ground. Extreme closeup, again, of B-17 in flight, its pilots in cockpit, and the same two P-51s from the 336th Fighter Squadron, ostensibly escorting them. (Note African American fighter pilots, known as the Tuskegee Airmen flew in the 332nd Fighter Group during the war. Unfortunately, none of the aircraft from that renowned Group of "Red Tails" are actually seen in this film.)
Aviator Charles Lindbergh arrives in Washington D.C., United States after his successful non stop trans Atlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh with mother in a car moving through crowd of newsmen and photographers. Army troops try to keep order as the car proceeds.
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