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Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd's polar expedition making preparations at Spitsbergen, Norway.
United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's 1926 arctic expedition. Cameraman sets up motion picture camera on tripod atop a floating ice floe. Expedition workers float the Fokker trimotor aircraft, named, "Josephine Ford," ashore. Only its nose engine and wing are installed. Later, after being fully assembled, the engines are started. Floyd Bennett and Richard Byrd, conversing, over the roar of the engines. Team members having a meal near the airplane.
Amundsen-Ellsworth arctic polar flight, in airship Norge, gets underway from Spitsbergen, Norway
Norwegian explorer, Ronald Amundsen steps from the Byrd expedition aircraft (Fokker F-VII Tri-motor airplane, the "Josephine Ford") with navigation instruments in his hands. These are gifts from Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd, to assist Amundsen and Ellsworth on their imminent arctic flight aboard the airship Norge. Byrd in Navy uniform, and Michael J. Brennan, U.S. Merchant Marine, Captain of the SS Chantier, follow Amundsen out of the airplane. Byrd joins Amundsen and they converse briefly. Then Captain Brennan examines some charts with Amundsen. Byrd holds a special sun compass invented by Albert H. Bumstead, chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society, and explains it to Lincoln Ellsworth, who then takes it in hand and manipulates it. Next event shown is on morning of May 11, 1926, as Byrd and Bennett take off, in the "Josephine Ford," in front of the parked airship, Norge, to provide a courtesy escort for the airship as it gets underway. Their plane is seen flying overhead as ground crews prepare the Norge for departure. Next, the Norge is seen rising vertically from the ground. Viewed from the Kings Bay dock the Norge is seen aloft in the distance. Aerial view, fairly close, of the Norge underway (presumably taken by Byrd, from his airplane).
Nazi Kriegsmarine launch Operation Zitronella on Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago (349th Grenadier Regiment and 230th infantry division) during World War II.
A battleship sails in strong waves in the Norwegian Sea at start of Operation Zitronella during World War 2. German Kriegsmarine navy lookouts survey the surroundings with binoculars, camera pans to show the waves. A destroyer sailing. Men in life-jackets on deck. A Kriegsmarine smokes his pipe on deck. A Kriegsmarine navy in sunglasses smokes cigarette. View of the Norwegian sea with German destroyers and Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on deck. A dinghy was hanging above the waters. Captain on the battleship Tirpitz, Vice-Admiral Friedrich Karl Topp, surveys Spitsbergen through binoculars. Battleship Tirpitz and other destroyers sail near Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on the gun turret of the Tirpitz are ready to fire (38 cm SK C/34 naval guns). Ammunition fired towards Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine men deploys a dinghy to the waters. Another round of ammunition fired to Spitsbergen. A dinghy with Kriegsmarine men deploys to the sea. Another round of ammunition fired towards the island again. A picket boat from a battleship prepares to sail. Another dinghy is deployed from a battleship. A German soldier gets into the dinghy. German soldiers climb down a steel ladder to get on a picket boat. A dinghy full of soldiers sails towards the island. More boats filled with soldiers deploy from the battleships towards the island. A dinghy sails away from a battleship. Spitsbergen island covered in smoke. Smoke emanating from the sailing battleship firing more ammunition. German soldier in a life-jacket smiling and sticking his tongue out as his group sails towards the island. Boats approach Spitsbergen island. Soldiers get off their boats after landing on the island. the island. Soldiers tie three explosives on a post. German soldiers patrolling nearby as an explosion booms. Boats filled with soldiers sail back to the battleships after they successfully seized the installations on the island. Soldiers in life-vests climb back to the battleships. Two German soldiers helped a comrade climb up to the battleship. A victorious German soldier smiles. German soldiers congratulates each other for the successful takeover of Spitsbergen. Battleships successfully sail with Spitsbergen in the background.
Lt. Commander Byrd's Fokker tri-motor aircraft returns to Spitsbergen, Svalbard after a flight to the North Pole.
United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett become the first to reach the North Pole by air. Byrd's streamer Chantler arrives at Kings Bay in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Two ships in an ice clogged harbor. Lt. Commander Byrd is welcomed by his friendly rival Captain Roald Amundsen. Amundsen climbs from one ship to another and shakes hands with Byrd. Byrd and Amundsen walk around and look over Byrd's Fokker tri-motor aircraft 'Josephine Ford' which is equipped with skis and is parked in snow. Workmen push fuselage and wing section of the Fokker tri-motor across the snow. The airplane moves down a snow clad incline. The ski equipped Fokker tri-motor aircraft takes off from a snow covered field in Spitsbergen. The aircraft returns and lands on a snow covered field after a flight to the North Pole. A large hangar and snow covered mountains in the background. Capt. Amundsen congratulates Byrd and shakes hands with him. Many people, dressed in heavy clothing, shake hand with Lt. Commander Byrd.
Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett return from North Pole in Fokker Tri-motor airplane, the "Josephine Ford."
Animated map illustrates the flight course of Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett, as they return to Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, Norway, from the North Pole, aboard their Fokker F-VII Tri-motor airplane, the "Josephine Ford." Pilot Floyd Bennett is photographed (by Byrd) in full arctic gear, at the controls of the airplane. View from the cabin of the Kings Bay encampment below. View from the ground, of Byrd and Bennett's Fokker aircraft, as it flies over the mooring mast of the Norwegian airship Norge. Next, steam issues from the ship's horn on the funnel of the SS Chantier, as she welcomes the aviators back from the Pole. Expedition team members wave and toss their hats in joy, as the aircraft approaches to land. The Fokker on final approach, with huge snow mountains behind. It touches down in front of the Norge airship hangar (between the hangar and the bay) and turns left, to taxi.
German troops land in Spitsbergen, Norway and plant demolition charges during World War II.
German occupation of Spitsbergen, Norway during World War 2. German fleet underway in the Arctic Ocean off Spitsbergen. German soldiers aboard a ship. Naval guns aboard a ship bombards the coast. German soldiers loaded in a landing craft as it is being lowered into the sea along the side the ship. A German destroyer lays a smoke screen. The soldiers transfer from the ship into the landing craft. Troops land at the coast of Spitsbergen. Engineers plant demolition charges on a tree.
