A Chinese caravan sponsored by Wally Byam Caravan Club visits the United States for the purpose of understanding and goodwill between the people of the U.S. and China. Animated map of the United States. A view of a city. A man gives a signal. An airstream trailer parked. A band plays music. People crowd in large numbers. A Chinese man arrives in a trailer. People on a road click pictures. He gets off from the trailer. The Chinese man speaks. The Americans shake hands with the Chinese people who arrive in the trailer. The Americans crowd and take pictures. An American man talks. Another Chinese man speaks. The trailers parked in the background. The Chinese flag and the American flag on a trailer. Two men talk. Chinese men seated in chairs. A man clicks a picture of a Chinese family. A Chinese woman. The Chinese people look at Mount Rushmore. People take pictures. A Chinese man speaks and a trailer in the background.
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietcong soldiers carry a dud MK82 bomb in a sling from a wooded area. A soldier removes the fuse and the detonator from the bomb. A soldier plants homemade mines on a trail. Vietcong soldiers dig a hole on the trail and put the mines. They cover the mines with mud. The soldiers digging the holes on the trail
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A bunker in a wooded area. A boy and a woman store hand grenades in a foxhole. The boy passes the grenades to the woman in the foxhole. The boy with a shovel in his hand. Vietcong soldiers dig a tunnel. The soldiers seated on the ground. They clean and repair weapons.
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Vietcong soldier distributes hand out material to the Vietnamese at a meeting. The Vietnamese read the material . A soldier puts a safe conduct sticker on a bus leaving a check point. The sticker on the bus. Men read the material. A bus drives past on a road and stops. The Vietnamese leave the bus at a check point. The Vietnamese including women are seated in a group and listen to a Vietcong speaker.
Reconstruction of Berlin, Germany following World War II. Aerial view looking over city of Berlin. Vehicles drive past on a main boulevard. Buildings in the background. A garden alongside the boulevard. Car traffic on the road. A sign board reads Der Neu Tiergarten ('The New Zoo'). A woman looks at a map on the signboard for the new Tiergarten zoo. People walk on the streets. Buildings on either side of the streets.
Film opens showing people assembled at a celebratory dinner, honoring French aviators, Captain Dieudonne Costes and Lieutenant Maurice Bellonte, who on September 1, 1930, flew their Breguet XIX aircraft,"Le Point d'Interrogation" (The Question Mark) non-stop from Paris to New York, and thence to Dallas Texas,landing at Love Field, Dallas, on September 4th,where they were greeted by 30,000 aviation enthusiasts. They are being honored by William Edward (Colonel) Easterwood, Jr., a Texas philanthropist and aviation enthusiast who had offered a $25,000 prize for the first one-stop flight from Paris to New York to Dallas,Texas. Colonel Easterwood delivers congratulatory remarks, and presents his check for the prize to the fliers. Closeup of the Easterwood check. Broadcast microphones are placed close to Colonel Easterwood and the fliers. Next, the fliers stand near the end of the event. Scene shifts completely to Costes and Bellonte with their aircraft, "The Question Mark, aboard a steamship, ready to sail back to France. Closup of the aircraft with large question mark painted on its side along with names of cities world-wide to which it had flown. Among these are: Hanoi; Calcutta; Karachi; Alepo; Athens; Rome; Paris; and New York. (Note: There is a display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas Love Field, that includes the actual prize check as well as a panoramic picture of the "Question Mark" landing in Dallas, along with a plaque commemorating the event.)
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