United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) Curtiss P-1 Hawk Pursuit AT-4 airplane, with smaller engines, used for training pursuit pilots in Michigan, United States. A stationary AT-4 aircraft. Propellers are spinning. USAAS personnel work on the aircraft. The AT-4 taxis on a runway. A pilot in the cockpit.
A United States Army Air Service (USAAS) Curtiss XNBS-4 bombardment airplane in Michigan, United States. A Curtiss XNBS-4 bomber taxis.
A United States Army Air Service (USAAS) Huff-Daland LB-1 light bomber aircraft in Michigan, United States. A pilot in a cockpit. The propellers spin. The aircraft taxis.
The Arcadia Conference in Washington, DC, during World War 2, from December 22, 1941 to January 14, 1942. American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, are seated in chairs on a portico of the White House. ( Roosevelt wears a black arm band, in mourning for his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who died on September 7, 1941.) Behind them stand representatives from various Allied nations. Scene shifts abruptly to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, June 24, 1942, where Prime Minister Churchill and U.S. Army Brigadier General William C. Lee, ride in back of an open white convertible car to inspect U.S. Army troops at attention in a massive formation. Next, the troops are seen marching. Churchill smoking a cigar is seated on a bench watching as the parade continues, to include soldiers in jeeps, and trucks. Closeup of U.S. Army chief of Staff, General George Marshall, conversing with Prime Minister Churchill. Next, Churchill, accompanied by General Lee, personally inspects Army paratroopers in their jump gear. Among others accompanying him is U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, wearing a pith helmet. Churchill listens on a portable radio, as paratroop commanders in flight give orders for their paratroopers to jump. Formations of U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft are seen overhead, as hundreds of paratroopers jump from them and descend by parachutes. Churchill, seated on a chair, next to General Lee, watches the paratrooper demonstration. Secretary Stimson, sits behind him. British and American officers and soldiers stand behind and watch, as well. Closeup of Churchill with cigar in his mouth, shielding his eyes, with his hands as he watches the demonstration. The second person seated behind Churchill is British Field Marshal Sir John Dill, with his hand on an upright wood support. More views of parachutes floating down into an area of trees, and of more C-47s dropping paratroops from overhead.
Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Flags of the Allies are unfurled at the Tempelhof airfield. Lined up cars at the airfield. An English airplane arrives with Royal Air Force Marshal Arthur William Tedder (Lord Tedder) and U.S. Army General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Lord Tedder and General Spaatz shake hands with Soviet officers including Soviet Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky. Field Marshal Keitel and staff arrive. A band plays as Soviet troops march. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel enters a car and reads surrender papers. Lord Tedder and other officials get into cars. The cars are driven away from the airfield.
Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Interior of headquarters where surrender papers are signed. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Stumpf and Friedensburg sign surrender documents followed by Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov; Royal Air Force Marshal Arthur William Tedder and U.S. Army General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Soviet deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Vyshinsky and French Army General DeLattre de Tassigny present.
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