A 1940 Packard long body sedan, carrying General Charles de Gaulle, comes up the drive to the White House. A group of U.S. military officers, and civilian officials, standing under an awning, greets him.
U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 transport aircraft carrying French General Charles de Gaulle, landing at Washington National Airport. Military honor guard is assembled on the ramp at the Air Transport Command section of the airport. Parked on tarmac are U.S. military aircraft include: B-17; T-6; several C-45s; and a C-46. The C-54, carrying General de Gaulle, taxis in at high speed using inboard engines, alone. Heavy smoke seen behind from locomotive on railroad (hidden behind trees). Potomac River in background. General de Gaulle descends from aircraft followed by several officials, and walks between saluting honor guard, as gun salutes are fired from artillery on airfield in background.(White smoke visible from the field guns.) General de Gaulle, wearing rank of Major General, and French 4-star General,Henri Giraud, salute as band plays national anthem. High-ranking American and French officers mingle and converse, including U.S. Air Force General Hap Arnold, and General George Marshall, who speaks briefly with General de Gaulle. (World War II period).
General Charles De Gaulle with other officers visits the Free French heavy Destroyer, Le Triomphant, in Algiers. The names "A Scheer" and "Deutchland" are painted on torpedoes fastened to the ship. Sailor blows bugle as General de Gaulle emerges from a gangway. Entire crew is in dress uniform. The gereral visits a submarine, where French crew is lined up at attention. An honor guard with fixed bayonets, on the pier. View of Free French naval flag. The flag of Forces Navales Francaises Libres (FNFL).
U.S. Military Officers march across the snowy campus of Yale University, to an auditorium, to witness the award of Yale's Howland Memorial Prize to British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. U.S. Chief of Naval operations, Admiral King, and U.S. Army Chief of Staff , General George C. Marshall, take part in academic procession with Sir John Dill, and are seated on the stage during the presentation. Sir John speaks, followed by General Marshall, who remarks about the accord between American and British Forces.
A U.S. Navy PBY transfers soldiers from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines. Soldiers get into a truck. Few American soldiers seated in a truck. The soldier's belongings being transferred to the truck. Two men carry boxes. Few soldiers outside a tent. PBY Catalina (Patrol Bomber Consolidated Aircraft), an American flying boat of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron on an airstrip. Other aircraft in view. Two trucks parked beside the flying boat. Men transport material from the trucks onto the aircraft. Soldiers board the aircraft with their belongings.
A U.S. Navy PBY of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron transfers soldiers from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War II. Two aircraft on an airstrip. The whole airstrip in view. The PBY Catalina in flight among the clouds. Soldiers aboard the aircraft. An officer in the cockpit gazing outside. Two soldiers talking. An office smoking a cigar and checking an equipment in the back compartment of the aircraft.
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