The opening of a nonstop Prague-New York flight in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A Pan American World Airways (PAA) plane lands at Prague airport (Prague Ruzyně International Airport, Aviatická, 161 00 Praha 6, Czechia). U.S. flag and name 'Praha' in foreground. The plane taxis. The passengers disembark. A crowd applauds for them. Labels on the parcels carried by the plane. The crew disembarks from the plane. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) delegates shake hands with them. Farmers' employees loosen the ropes of a cargo of hatching eggs. The freight is unloaded from the plane. A truck carries boxes of eggs. German prisoners pass by the plane. The hatching eggs are placed into artificial hatches in a hatchery near Prague. Men and women carry the UNRRA' boxes full of eggs. Young chicks in the coops.
Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald at an airfield in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Prime Minister Klement followed by military officials walks on the airfield. Prime Minister Gottwald shakes hands with Russian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Valerian Zorin. Gottwald boards an aircraft for Moscow. Russia. The aircraft takes off.
Wrecked buildings in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Church of Our Lady before Týn (Staroměstské nám., 110 00 Staré Město, Czechia). Wrecked buildings beside the church. Several men and women in front of the church. The Jan Hus Monument (Staroměstské nám., 110 00 Staré Město, Czechia) at Old Town Square. The Church of Týn and a scaffolding for rebuilding in the foreground. The ruins of the Town Hall building following bombing in World War 2. Germans cleaning the ruins and rubble of the building. German prisoners walk past the damaged building. A signboard among the ruins indicating the direction of Dresden. Germans cleaning the ruins of damaged houses. German men and women cleaning up the remains of the railway station of Cheb at the border. A group of German women cleaning the ruins. German workers on top of a heap of bricks.
A Communist party meeting held in Prague, Czechoslovakia after the parliamentary elections. Views in the lobby of the Communist Party headquarters shows people looking at photos of Vladimir Lenin and Czech personalities including Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Bedrich Smetana and others. A meeting of the Communist party after the elections. Members at long tables stand up and applaud. Party officials seated at a long table in the front beneath large hanging pictures of Stalin and Gottwald. Communist Interior minister Václav Nosek proposes Chairman of the meeting Klement Gottwald as their new Prime Minister. Closer view of the photos of Klement Gottwald and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin with two sentences written in Czech: 'With Gottwald we won' and 'With Gottwald we must achieve our plan'.
A memorial of peace in South Moravia, Czechoslovakia. The memorial in a field. Mohyla míru or the The Cairn of Peace (K Mohyle míru 200, 664 58 Prace, Czechia) at Austerlitz. Four-woman statues on the memorial. Small bushes beside the memorial.
British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visits Prague, Czechoslovakia after World War II. An American Douglas DC-3 aircraft taxis on a Czechoslovakian aerodrome. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery alights from the aircraft. He is greeted by Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk and Commander-in Chief of the Czechoslovakian Army General Ludwig Svoboda. The gathered crowd greets Marshal Montgomery with cheers. He reviews members of Czechoslovakian 1st Armored Brigade which served under him. Marshal Montgomery in a convertible car which drives through the cheering Czechoslovakian crowd.