A ticker tape parade in New York City honors Jesse Owens for his outstanding performance at the Berlin Olympics and welcomes American olympians back home. The New York City Police band plays as the parade moves past a large crowd along the street. Men in cars move down a street which has been narrowed by ongoing road construction work. Trolley tracks are evident in some parts of street.
Early model aircraft in Europe, early in the history of flight. Animated map depicts European commercial air routes. Passengers enter the cabin of a British Handley Page W8B transport aircraft. Cargo is loaded into an early single engine bi winged aircraft. Passengers get off an old touring car and board a Farman Goliath airliner. 'Grands Express Aeriens' is printed on the aircraft. A medium sized British bi winged transport aircraft taxis on an airfield. An early bi wing single engine aircraft in flight over an airfield. Aerial views of a European city. An early model single engine bi winged transport aircraft lands. People disembark from an early model passenger aircraft. Animated map of Europe depicts air routes from London to Paris, Manchester and Berlin. People near an early model bi plane. Passengers board and cargo is loaded into the aircraft. Comical scene as a pig is loaded into a Farman Goliath early model liner. A man and the pig look out of the windows of the aircraft. Animated airline routes over a map of Europe. Men load cargo in an early model Spad commercial bi plane.
Secretary of State Department, Cordell Hull at office with his staff. World map. Door sign 'Division of European Affairs. 'Officer with other men at work. Ambassador Hugh Wilson in Berlin and Ambassador William Phillips in Rome. British and French U.S. diplomats, Joseph P. Kennedy in London, England United Kingdom; and W.C. Bullitt at conference in Paris. Consul General George Wadsworth at American consulate in Jerusalem, Palestine; and J.C. Grew in Tokyo, Japan.
Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia soon after the end of World War 2. A committee of Allied representatives meet to decide the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. The members of the committee around a map on a table. Dr. Kuchera, plenipotentiary of the Czech Government, American Colonel J.H.Fye, Executive Officer of CAX in Berlin Lieutenant Colonel Messick, a Czech doctor and Czech Colonel Monzer from the Ministry of National Defense look at the map. Several views of the group looking at the map. Dr. Kuchera rounds with a pencil the areas in Czechoslovakia to be evacuated. Dr. Kuchera, Colonel Fye and Lieutenant Colonel Messick talking. Lieutenant Colonel Messick, wearing spectacles. A portrait hangs on the wall behind.
Funeral procession of Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Dignitaries gather for the funeral at Prague Castle. They place flowers and wreaths. A large crowd of civilians and dignitaries attend the funeral procession which then proceeds back across a bridge over the Vltava River and into central Prague in a slow military parade. Civilians raising arms in Nazi salute as coffin passes. Coffin seen in railroad train as it begins trip back to Berlin for a second funeral service. View inside the new Reich Chancellery on 9 June, 1942. A torch in the background. Nazi German leaders Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, and Heinrich Himmler at the funeral. Hitler expresses condolences to Heydrich's two young sons, Klaus and Heider, at the State Funeral. Young boy Heider salutes Hitler.
Scenes taken by U.S. paratrooper (not shown) during stopover in Casablanca, French Morocco, on July 13, 1944. A street sign points to Washington, Tokyo, London, Berlin, and Paris, showing distances. Sidewalk entertainers play musical instruments as people gather around them. A government building in the city with tricolor streamer on it. Panning views of the surrounding area. Aerial views of the ruins of Monte Cassino Abbey (very dark underexposed).
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