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Presentation of gold medals to the Wright Brothers by American Aero Club at the White House in Washington DC, U.S.

Gold medals given to the Wright Brothers for their contribution to the field of aviation. Presentation of gold medals to the Wright Brothers by American Aero Club shows U.S. President William Taft, Orville and Wilbur Wright and other members attending the medal presentation at the White House in Washington DC, United States on June 10, 1910. View of the Aero Club of American Gold Medal which was presented. View of medals presented to the Wright Brothers by the Institute of France and the Royal Society of Art in Great Britain.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075733
Aviator Howard Hughes takes off for Paris from Floyd Bennett Field in New York during his airplane flight around the world.

American aviator Howard Hughes takes off for Paris, France from Floyd Bennett Field in New York, United States. Howard Hughes surrounded by a crowd in front of a Lockheed L-14 Super Electra (NX18973) passenger aircraft. Hughes being interviewed by press. Crew with Hughes includes navigator Tom Thurlow, navigator and copilot Harry Connor, radio technician Richard Stoddart, and flight engineer Ed Lund. This is the start of a world circumnavigation flight that ultimately covered some 14,672 miles. The Lockheed L-14 Super Electra aircraft taxis and takes off from Floyd Bennett Field.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1938, July 10
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075739
USAAF Major General Paul L. Williams and soldiers of 9th Troop Carrier Command standing near airplanes in Europe

An officer seated at a desk and speaking about the Battle of the Bulge action near Bastogne, Belgium with U.S. troops during World War II. He recognizes the forces of the 9th Troop Carrier Command (operating out of England, United Kingdom and out of France) for reaching them with important supply drops late in the battle. United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) Major General Paul L Williams inside a glider cockpit (while parked) and officers and crew standing and walking together on airfield areas. Airplanes parked at an air base. Pilots and crew standing nearby. Close up views of faces of many of the U.S. Army personnel of the 9th Troop Carrier Command, including pilots, ground crew, officers. Point of view shot from inside a glider aircraft cockpit as pilots negotiate landing in a field. Smiling officers, soldiers, and crew of the 9th Troop Carrier Command.

Location: Bastogne Belgium
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076742
President Roosevelt addresses graduates of University of Virginia and talks about U.S. decision to aid the Allies.

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses graduates of the class of 1940 at the University of Virginia, before the U.S. entrance into World War II. Speaking in Memorial Gymnasium, the President speaks into a microphone and addresses the University community and graduates, including his son Franklin Roosevelt Jr., who was graduating with a law degree. He speaks about the United States' decision to aid the Allies by extending to them the material resources of the United States in the war. He says that the U.S. took the decision after Italian Government's back-stab decision to engage in the war, after having earlier worked for the preservation of peace in the Mediterranean area. (Roosevelt had learned that morning of Italy's declaration of war on France.)

Location: Charlottesville Virginia USA
Date: 1940, June 10
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077093
Ships underway in New York Harbor in New York, United States.

New York Harbor in New York, United States. Film starts showing two women on the deck of a ship using binoculars to view the traffic of ships and tugboats working in New York harbor. A variety of commercial vessels, mostly freighters are seen. One ocean liner, the General W.C. Gorgas is seen, with no visible passengers. (USS General W. C. Gorgas (ID-1365) was a a German ship seized by the US Shipping Board in World War I and used as a Navy troop ship. We see her as she departs New York on 25 April 1919 to embark Army troops and load cargo at Bordeaux, France.) Other scenes of interest include one closeup of a tugboat emitting a plume of black smoke.

Location: New York City United States USA
Date: 1919, April 25
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078130
U.S. soldiers retreat and advance into Bastogne during the Battle of Bulge in World War II.

U.S. Army soldiers fight against the Germans during the Battle of Bulge in World War II. U.S. soldiers retreat and engineers prepare and lay mines and barbed wire fences. U.S. soldiers on a snow covered field. A map of Belgium depicts the Nazi drive into the region of Bulge. Allied aircraft bombard German town. Nazi prisoners of war being marched. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47B aircraft drop supplies to U.S. troops at Bastogne. U.S. 3rd Army advances in the regions. Damaged buildings in the city and dead bodies in streets. Soldiers fire rifles in a street in Haguenau, France. Credential being checked by officers. Soldiers fire rifles and artillery and speak over field phone. Alsatian women being freed from a prison. Senator James F. Byrnes speaks about the U.S. soldiers fighting in the war during a war bond drive.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078190
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