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Major Rufus Hessberg, Sergeant Curtiss and Sergeant Pollier at Nice Airport, France for a rescue mission.
Air Search for United States Air Force aircraft C-47 which crashed in French Italian Alps. Paramedics prepare to board a C-47 for personnel and equipment drop in crash site area. Paramedics don their gear before boarding C-47. Major Rufus Hessberg, Sergeant Curtiss and Sergeant Pollier of 84th Air Rescue Squadron of Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany get ready. Sergeant Curtiss inspects gear of paramedics. Paramedics board a C-47 aircraft.
Colonel Robert L Rizon directs the search mission in France.
Air Search for United States Air Force aircraft C-47 which crashed in French Italian Alps. Colonel Robert L Rizon, Commander of the 12th Air Rescue group of Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany directs the search mission. Colonel Robert L Rizon and another pilot discuss flight plans. They discuss the search pattern for crash area. They climb into T-33 aircraft for take off.
Ornithopter aircraft of various designs demonstrated including Gustav Lilienthal's large ornithopter.
Several attempts to fly ornithopters, intended to fly by flapping of wings. They manage to move their wings but fail in attempts to fly. The largest of them might be Gustav Lilienthal's large ornithopter, which was demonstrated in Germany and had a 3 horse power motor.
British books preserved in World War 2 by copying them to microfilm and storing them in United States Library of Congress.
British books being preserved from destruction during World War 2. Images from May 13, 1933 when twenty five thousand books were burned by Nazis in Germany on orders from Hitler. The book-burning included many classics of literature. Aerial view of London buildings burning at night from Nazi blitz raid during Battle of Britain. Books and important records being preserved by British as they transfer them to film, with one page of each book recorded to one frame of film, so that an entire book can be captured on a small roll of film. View of books copied onto motion picture film one page at a time by a British man. View of U.S. military personnel reviewing motion picture film used to image letters sent to troops via V-mail during the war. Narrator states that the filming process followed by the British is similar to the American mail filming process.The films being looked at by a man. Men pack the films in boxes for shipment to the United States. Wooden boxes being lifted by ship crane for transport. Exterior street view of United States Library of Congress building where the films are being kept. Librarian checking and stamping each film on arrival. Film being viewed on a large microfilm viewer. The description of each film on cards placed in the library card catalog. View of the original preservation films being filed and stored in shelves in the basement of the Library of Congress.
Assorted scenes of World War I, as America enters in 1917
An Allied ship in final stage of sinking by German U-Boat during World War 1. The ship's boilers explode as she goes under. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson looking out a window in his office in the White House. Officers and crew crowd conning tower of German submarine U-35 as it approaches a steamer it has stopped in Mediterranean Sea. View of shells from the U-Boat's deck gun, striking at the ship's waterline. View from the U-Boat U-35 deck as the attacked ship is sinking. She disappears, bow-first, beneath the water. Black smoke issues from her stack. President Wilson signing papers at his desk. American flag flying in front of the nation's capitol. President Wilson addressing the Congress and obtaining a declaration of war against Germany, on April 6, 1917. A banner reading: "War is declared." New recruits marching into an Army Post, in civilian clothes, carrying personal baggage. Regular U.S. soldiers beginning the basic training of recruits. Recruits learning the manual of arms, with wooden substitute weapons. Recruits engaged in Calisthenics outdoors at an army base. Contingents of uniformed and trained American soldiers marching along a road. Soldiers practicing live fire with machine guns, and engaged in bayonet training. Troops in formation double-time marching. American troops marching to trains at a railroad station, as spectators cheer them from the train station platforms. They board railway train and wave as it pulls out of the station.
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrive in France during World War I
The United States declares war against Germany during World War I. On May 28, 1917 Major General John J. Pershing, Chief of American Expeditionary Forces aboard the S.S. Baltic on its way to France during World War I. Nearly 2,000,000 American soldiers disembark at a port in France. The troops disembark from the ship. A ship at the harbor. Ships underway at sea. Sailors on the deck of a ship. A German U boat underway. Naval gun being fired at the U boat. Explosion occurs at sea. A man waves signal flags from a ship. The troops disembark from the ship. Soldiers at a rail road station and a train pulls up to carry them to the war front. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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