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United States President Harry Truman awards Collier Trophy to Lewis Rodert

United States President Harry Truman awards Collier Trophy for air safety to Aeronautics Engineer Lewis Rodert. Both men shake hands. Rodert is recognized for his work in developing a heat method for preventing the icing of aircraft (de-icing method).

Date: 1947, December 12
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040652
28th Escadrille fliers of French Air Service in a Salmson 2, and posing with Americans of the 79th Division Army Infantry

28th Escadrille fliers of French Air Service with a Salmson plane during World War I. Two French fliers climb into the Reconnaissance plane and take off. The plane seen in flight. Group of French 28th Escadrille and U.S. Army 79th Division Infantry (operating as observors) seen smiling and talking in front of a SPAD (Societe Provisoire des Aeroplanes Deperdussin and Bleriot) French airplane. American flag hung on the wing. They talk and share cigarettes. View of just the American group in front of the aircraft, posing for the camera.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040828
Citizens campaign in Mexico City for Mexico to declare war against the Axis powers in World War II

Thousands of citizens march in Mexico City demonstrating for Mexico to declare war against the Axis powers in World War 2. They converge on the main plaza (Zócalo) where President Manuel Ávila Camacho stands on the balcony of the Presidential Palace, with his wife, Doña Soledad Orozco García de Ávila Camacho, and members of his staff. View from a high point overlooking the plaza, showing thousands massed with the Mexico City Cathedral in the background. Narrator states that citizens protest against axis sinking of unarmed mexican ships. Flags of the United States, and allied flags are displayed. Flags are waved in salute for their dead comrades, by Survors of the SS Potrero del Llano, a Mexican ship torpedoed by the German submarine, U-564, on May 13, 1942. Camera pans over the square filled with people and banners. Next, President Camacho is seen asking the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for a declaration of war. People on the streets (some sitting on street lamps) listen to the broadcast over loudspeakers. Mexican Army soldiers seen in helmets. Uniformed troops line a sidewalk. Deputies applaud after unanimously approving the declaration of war.

Date: 1942, May 22
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040847
Charles Lindbergh receives the Cross of the Legion of Honor from France.

Famous aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh with U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick in Paris, France. He waves the U.S. and French flags. Charles Lindbergh at the Aéro-Club de France. His plane 'Spirit of St. Louis'. People eat at the club during the flyers’ luncheon. Charles Lindbergh honored by French President Gaston Doumergue by 'Cross of the Legion of Honor' at the Élysée Palace (55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France).

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041066
Soviet War Memorial seen with a soldier flanked by Russian tanks in Berlin

A view of a large building destroyed in Berlin. Soviet War Memorial (Str. des 17. Juni 4, 10557 Berlin, Germany) seen with a soldier flanked by Russian tanks. Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, Germany.

Date: 1952, September 3
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041181
U.S. Troops formally depart from France

U.S. Troops formally depart from France. Brief ceremonies mark the closing of U.S. Military Command Headquarters at Saint Germain-En-Lay in France. 26 Thousand NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Troops leave France by order of French President De Gaulle. U.S. and French Flags are lowered together.

Date: 1967, March 17
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041318