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Pierre Laval is greeted by Paul Claudel and Jimmy Walker upon his arrival in New York.
French President of Council of Ministers of the Third French Republic Pierre Laval arrives in New York. French ocean liner SS Ile de France underway at sea. Pierre Laval disembarks from SS Ile de France with his daughter Mlle Josette. Laval is greeted by representatives of U.S. State Department, city officials and French Ambassador to the United States Paul Claudel. A tug sprays water in New York Harbor. The party boards the tug Macom and is landed at the battery and escorted up lower Broadway to City Hall where Mayor Jimmy Walker welcomes the diplomats on behalf of the metropolis.
37 passengers and crew members of a trans-Atlantic transport airplane escaped death as the airplane crashed in Connecticut.
A trans-Atlantic Air France Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation (F-BGNA) crashes in Preston City, Connecticut, United States. 37 passengers and crew members of Air France Flight AF075 escaped death. The wrecked airplane and the damage in the area where the airplane crashed. People look at the wreckage. A woman carrying her child while seated in chair. Wounded in hospital beds. Doctors and nurses treat them. Other passengers are seated in chairs inside the hospital.
Contribution of African American soldiers during the Spanish American War and World War I.
A film about the role of African American soldiers during various wars in the United States. A dramatization shows a black soldier during the Spanish American War. He also talks about his role in Cuba and the construction of the Panama Canal. Footage of the Panama Canal being constructed and ships underway in the canal. United States Army forces including black soldiers boarding troop transport ships bound for Europe during World War 1. A railroad train carries African American soldiers to France during World War I. African American soldier units under General Pershing march in formation with an Army band in France during World War 1. African American soldiers work and fight against the Germans, including the 813th Pioneer Regiment near Marseilles, the 332nd Labor Battalion, and the 808th Pioneer Regiment near Verdun. African American soldiers racing for front lines including the soldiers with the 8th Illinois and the 372nd regiment and the 371st, and the 369th Infantry Regiment (sometimes called the "Harlem Hellfighters") in the Argonne. View from behind soldier as he fires a machine gun, and United States Army infantry firing artillery. African American soldiers of the 369th regiment "Harlem Hellfighters" being decorated and receiving the French Croix de Guerre for their heroic actions in World War I. The African American soldiers march at a parade in New York City following World War I and are greeted by throngs of enthusiastic African American civilians attending the parade. View of Henry Johnson being congratulated by civilians after he and Needham Roberts performed with exceptional heroism and received the Croix de Guerre. Close up view of the Croix de Guerre medal on a uniform. Graves of African American soldiers who lost their lives during World War I at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. View of the All-Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors in Logan Square in Philadelphia (Logan Square, SE corner 20th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). View of a stone memorial erected in the Meuse-Argonne region, north of Sechault, as a tribute to the efforts of the African American soldiers of the 371st Infantry Regiment who fought and died there on April 21, 1918 during World War 1.
Scenes of World War 1 and the period between the wars, illuminating career of U.S. Air Force General Henry (Hap) Arnold.
Newspaper headline in Washington post reads 'United States and Germany at War'. Civilians recruited into the army. American pilots of the 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron, in France, with their Spad aircraft. American airplane production factories in operation, with manny women war production workers seen assembling aircraft. People celebrate in the streets at end of World War I at time of armistice. Airplanes, under command of General Billy Mitchell bomb obsolete warships in demonstration of aircraft power in warfare. 1920s: Postwar flyers and stunt wing walkers perform in the roaring twenties. Developments and improvements in parachutes, and view as stunt men parachute from high buildings and airplanes. Aircraft flying forest fire patrols. Aerial view of burning forest fire below. Lieutenant Colonel Arnold commands emergency airlift and drop of food to snowbound Native American Indians in American Southwest, in 1932. World War I scene of American 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron Spad airplanes taking off, in France. Lieutenant Colonel Hap Arnold with his family, including two young boys and a young girl (his sons and daughter) and his wife.
Actions of Axis and Allied powers on brink of World War II in period 1937-1939.
Japanese troops parade for Emperor Hirohito, mounted upon a white horse. Italian troops goosestep and German troops goosestep on parade. View of an Austrian town with snow-covered Alps mountains in background as German troops enter Austria on March 13, 1938 during the Anschluss. Local citizens welcome them, displaying swastika flags and giving Nazi straight arm salutes. Troops, military vehicles, tanks, motorcycles, and horse-drawn artillery comprise the German invading force. Shifts to Spain, where war torn buildings reflect effects of German and Italian intervention during the Spanish Civil War. A donkey standing near field artillery piece. Artillery being fired from an urban park in Spain. Artilleryman using a range finder. German gun crew with heavy artillery piece. Soldiers wearing Adrian steel helmets, firing a two-wheeled water-cooled machine gun. Spanish carrying wounded on stretcher. Spanish civilians inadvertently slain during civil war conflict. Starving dog walking in street. Huge poster of Francisco Franco and view of him on reviewing stand saluting marching Nationalist troops. Repeat of Hirohito reviewing troops and Italian and German troops goosestep. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini stand together in open car heading to Fuhrerbau in Munich, Germany, for signing of Agreement between Germany, Italy, Britain, and France in 1938. Neville Chamberlain, and Edouard Daladier riding in car to Fuhrerbau. Views of the principals signing the accords. First is Adolf Hitler, followed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Edouard Daladier. After the signing, the principals, plus Hermann Goering, mingle and converse. Change of scene to nighttime in Rome, Italy, where Benito Mussolini addresses a huge throng gathered near the Victor Emmanuel Memorial to cheer him after his return from Munich. Next, German troops are seen entering Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) greeted by joyous ethnic German inhabitants. Banners are stretched across a street. One gives thanks to the Fuhrer. Several scenes of cheering population. A woman strews flowers in a roadway. Hitler arrives, standing in an open car, and is met with cheers of adulation. A military brass band plays from the open beds of two moving army trucks. Signpost points to Prag (Prague), Eger (Cheb), Joachimstal (Jáchymov), and Komotau (Chomutov) after German annexation. Scene shifts to Prague, where German troops are seen occupying the city. High ranking German officers in a car are seen coming through the gateway from the Court d´honneur of the Prague Castle into the Hradčany Square. The next sequence shows an Italian Freccia-Class destroyer in the Albanian Port of Durrës. An Italian L3/35 Tankette is driven off a large cargo ship. Italian troops on bicycles ride in a city street. A German 88mm antiaircraft (flak) gun is shown, mounted at a fort overlooking a river and city. Final scene shows Adolf Hitler addressing a meeting of the Bundestag in the Kroll Opera House (alternate meeting place after burning of the Reichstag). He reads, contemptuously from an April 14, 1939 letter sent to him by U.S. President Roosevelt, asking him to give "assurance that your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following independent nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran." As Hitler reads through the litany of nations, the Bundestag erupts in laughter.
Montage of battle scenes during major Allied counter offensive in World War I
Following bold attacks by German forces against English Channel ports in France, French General Ferdinand Foch orders a counter attack by all Allied armies. The film then depicts a montage of war scenes, growing shorter and in quicker succession as the film proceeds. Allied soldiers advancing across open battlefields on a broad front during counter offensive following German attacks against English Channel ports in France, during World War 1. Soldiers drop and take cover as shells explode in open field areas. Dead horses next to a destroyed wagon. Soldier running across open fields. German soldiers firing Maschinengewehr (Schwarzlose) M. 7 (Schwarzlose MG) machine gun. Allied gunners firing French 75 field artillery pieces. Allied soldiers carrying wounded on stretcher. Allied soldiers lifting and carrying shells from stacks of shells along their lines. A shell explosion close to the camera. German soldiers taking cover at upper edge of a bomb crater. One is struck and rolls backward. Allied soldiers wearing ponchos and firing machine gun. Soldiers with an artillery shell. German soldier falling back down embankment. Dead German soldier lying beside a knocked-out German machine gun. Ground level shot from trench or ditch of Allied soldiers emerging from trenches "over the top" and running on battlefield. Explosions on battlefield. Allied soldiers emerge from underground bunker with wood framed door. French soldiers marching on battlefield beside destroyed trees. French soldiers going over the top from trenches to advance in battle. Destroyed trees all around. Capture German soldiers marching along a trench. French soldiers carrying wounded soldier on litter. Trench with numerous bodies of dead soldiers. French soldiers hastily wheeling a wounded soldier on a cart. Numerous scenes of wounded French soldiers, some walking and bandaged. Flamethrowers being used on battlefield areas. Lines of multiple flamethrowers in use. French soldiers marching in a town. Some are supporting other soldiers and some hold rags to faces (possible gas attack victims). Schneider CA1 French tank moving in underbrush. French soldiers load and fire artillery. Heavy siege guns and howitzers being fired including an Italian siege howitzer Mortaio da 210/8. Dead German soldier on ground. French soldiers digging trench beside bodies of fallen soldiers. Shell being loaded in artillery gun. Explosions in valley as seen from high ridge overlooking battlefield. Heavily bandaged wounded soldier being carried by French soldiers and medics. Group of German prisoners; some bandaged. French carrying more wounded on stretchers. A French railway gun (Canon de 340 mm) on railway mounting is fired. Allied cavalry soldiers on horseback galloping across streams, some towing empty caissons that bounce going over embankments at high speed. Allied soldiers in trench. Large group of Allied soldiers taking cover in large bomb crater and then charging up and over the top through smoke screen.
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