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Fireworks display in Paris, celebrating U.S. Atlantic fliers: Clarence Chamberlin, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, and Charles Lindbergh.

Film opens showing animated images of elephants created by fireworks. View of the Pont Alexandre III bridge illuminated at night with fireworks in the sky above and sparks spouting from containers on the bridge. View of the Nymphes de la Seine statue group by sculptor Georges Recipon, is seen on the near (western side) of the bridge. The fireworks fountains on the bridge increase their discharges. Next, showers of sparks and heavy smoke appear, as people walk across the bridge. (These fireworks are generated East of the bridge.) Spectators viewed from behind are silhouetted against the white smoke and fireworks, as they watch the show from the nearby Pont de la Concorde Bridge. A group of swirling fireworks in the sky. Animated images of dancers wrought in fireworks. One of them collapses. An animated fireworks image of an urn spewing fire, topped by two fish moving atop it. Firework portrait of man with name "Chamberlain" beneath it. Firework bust of Admiral Byrd, with "Byrd" beneath it. Animated firework picture of the Spirit of St. Louis (Lindbergh's airplane) approaching the Eiffel Tower, followed by firework portrait of Lindbergh, with name "Lindy" above, and sequence of word: "The" followed by image of a lone eagle, and words: "of the U.S.A. Film concludes with more fireworks displays.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067827
U.S. soldiers on Omaha Beach coming ashore from landing crafts and medics assist wounded at Normandy in World War II.

U.S. Army soldiers coming ashore from D-Day landing crafts during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II. View of some 5th Engineering Battalion soldiers rescued from a wrecked landing craft during the invasion. View of a wrecked landing craft. A landing craft on the shore. U.S. army medics treat the rescued soldiers. Landing craft of LST-51 reaches shore and U.S. soldiers come ashore from the landing craft. A view of the troops on Omaha beach strewn with gear. Some injured soldiers with wound dressings grab inflatables and board the landing craft at shore. Landing Craft Tank 29 (LCT-29) seen at shore. Heavy wind and surf pins a landing craft at shore as it works to free itself and return to ship.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069373
U.S. Army Air Forces 86th Fighter Group P-47s operating at Poretta Airfield, Corsica, during World War II.

P-47s of the 86th Fighter Group, distinguished by their bright red and white striped enpennages, are seen in operation at the Poretta Airfield, Casamozza, Corsica, during World War 2. Several P-47s (with razor back canopies) are seen parked on the field. One P-47 takes off and another lands.

Date: 1944
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070348
Newspapers are printed and distributed telling of Charles Lindbergh's attempt to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Newspapers print millions of copies to spread the news of Charles Lindbergh's attempt to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Newspapers being printed, bundled, and distributed to delivery services and sellers.

Date: 1927, May 20
Duration: 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065237
Parisians cheer French General Charles De Gaulle, General Koenig and General Leclerc at the end of World War II.

Liberation of Paris at the end of World War II. Army soldiers transported in a military truck. General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, General Marie Pierre Koenig and General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque are acclaimed by French civilians. Army troops stand in uniform as the Generals meet the civilians. French civilians sit on tree tops to get a better view. Civilians shout praises and applaud. French Generals salute the gathered crowd. The crowd interacts with French Generals. Children climb over one another with the United States flag in hand.

Date: 1944, August
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065414
The Allied invasion of Normandy on D-day, during World War II

U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft painted in D-Day stripes, seen taking off at nightfall on June 5, 1944, carrying Airborne troopers from a base in England, during World War 2. Large formations of U.S. B-17 bombers en route to targets in Europe. Clusters of indendiary bombs falling from a U.S. bomber. View from a bomber of explosions on the ground from bombing at a coastline. Allied paratroopers fill the sky with their parachutes as they jump from formations of C-47 transport aircraft. Thirty minutes before the amphibious assaults at Normandy, Allied warships bombard the shore with heavy naval guns. Troops leave their transport ships and board small landing craft (Higgins boats). Soldiers try to stabilize the rope nets for others climbing down, as their small craft pitch in choppy seas. The boats speed away from their transport ships, and head toward the shore. Smoke rising from the shore where naval shelling has caused explosions and fire. Troops from landing craft of the USS, Samuel Chase (APA-26), wade ashore under enemy machine gun fire, at "Fox Green" section of Omaha Beach. They are far away from the beach itself, because of steel and concrete obstacles placed by the Germans, and relatively low tide.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065481