Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War 1. Salmson 2A2 aircraft are parked in a field with men seated on the ground in the shade of their wings. A pilot, standing next to a Salmson 2A2, puts on his flight gear while smoking a cigarette. He climbs aboard the airplane which has the red and blue buffalo insignia of the 99th Aero Squadron painted on its fuselage. The photographer- gunner in rear cockpit loads canisters of ammunition on his Darne-built Lewis twin machine guns and checks the movement of the gun's scarff ring mounting. He receives an aerial camera from a ground crewman. Two airmen work on a Vickers machine gun installed beside the nose of the aircraft (synchronized to fire through the propeller). Scene shifts to an aircraft taking off. Camera shifts back to the aircraft getting ready, where a ground crewman pulls the propeller through to clear any hydraulic lock and the pilot starts the engine. The aircraft taxis and takes off.
Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War 1. Breguet Br14 taxiing across field. Spad airplane taking off. Salmson 2A2 taxiing. Trimotor triple-tailed Caproni bomber taxiing. Salmson 2A2 taking off. United States Air Service fliers, of the !st Pursuit Group, including those of the 27th Aero Squadron, pose at Rembercourt Aerodrome. As the camera pans across them from left to right, some of their aircraft are also seen behind them, including SPAD XIII #7 , and at the very end, SPAD XIII #13, the aircraft of the 27th Aero Squadron Commander, Captain Alfred A. Grant (distinguished by its checkered cowl ring). Front view of Salmson 2A2 aircraft. French officers pose in front of two-seat Spad XVI aircraft.
Victory in Europe Day during World War II. A group of French nurses and patients (many appear to be recuperating, wounded soldiers) seated at a hospital in Paris, France. They jump with joy as they hear the news of Allied victory in Europe during World War II.
View of heavy vehicular traffic of 1950s cars and buses on street of Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. The Arc de Triomphe seen in the far background.
Allied nations participate in the Inter-Allied Games at the Pershing Stadium in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, France. Arab men performing a sword dance. Spectators watch the sword dance. Men on decorated camels. Camels moving along the track for the camel race. People watching the camel race. Flags on poles in the background.
'Battle of Britain' from the "Why we Fight" series of propaganda films during World War 2. Adolf Hitler stands with other officers in Paris following Battle of France and views the Eiffel Tower. Elevated view from Eiffel Tower of German troops marching in streets of Paris and under Arc de Triomphe. Damaged buildings in Dunkirk after German invasion. Hitler and staff ride in car through street barely passable with rubble and destroyed buildings on either side. In Calais, view of bombed port area and German soldiers keeping watch from a bunker. Hitler looks through V-shaped rangefinder or sighting binoculars across the English Channel toward Britain. Scenes in Berlin Germany of Reich Chancellery exteriors and interiors where Hitler meets with German officers and plans with other officers for invading England. German soldiers guarding the building exterior; Hitler's staff shown examining maps. Pictorial, animated representation of the first phase of the plan showing attack of England from air by Luftwaffe. Phase two shows attack on coastal areas. Phase three shows the actual attack and the course the German army would take to invade Britain.
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