Cross country race held at around the park Bois de Boulogne in Paris. 700 contestants participate in the race. Trees in the background. A stream is seen in the foreground as the participants run on the road. The race finishes.
German antiaircraft batteries fire at British aircraft. German attack causes vast destruction at Dunkirk. Destroyed tanks stand on the side of the roads. A sign board reads 'Dunkerque'. Abandoned British tanks and war material at Dunkirk. Fire and smoke rises from burning oil tanks. Antiaircraft battery seen. Enemy dead bodies lye at Dunkirk. British POW (Prisonerz of War) walk along the road.
German Luftwaffe aircraft get ready for attack on Paris. The planes take off. Several German aircraft in flight. German pilot seated in cockpit. The buildings and hangar of Paris destroyed. German planes in formation. German bombers blast railway yards in Paris. French tanks burn. Aerial view of Paris. (World War II period).
Features notables in early aviation history. Early aviation pioneers attend the first International Aviation Meet held at Rheims. An early model French aircraft taxis. Colonel Courzi seated in the cockpit of an early model aircraft. Plane in flight. Wilbur Wright gives a flying demonstration at International meeting. Louis Paulhan gives a demonstration of flight on his aircraft. Two aircraft fly around pylon. One piloted by Glenn Curtiss. Men sit in a car. Hubert Latham flies an aircraft. Louis Breguet crashes. People rush to the crash scene and cameramen take photographs. Louis Breguet standing near a car. Louis Bleriot in an airplane on the airfield. Louis Blériot looks out from the cockpit. Henri Farman in an aircraft. People observe air show.
'Terminus Aviation Buffet' written on a building in Paris. People gathered in front of the building. A huge crowd. Aviator Charles Lindbergh looks below from a building. People gather to welcome him. Posters on the walls in the street. Charles Lindbergh waves U.S. flag and French flag. Men stand with him in the building. Crowd cheers.
Men examine a plane in Paris. People gather in front of a hangar. Aviator Charles Lindbergh arrives with a group of men. They escort him by a French biplane and down a street past an honor guard. Large group gathers around the monoplane of Charles Lindbergh 'Spirit of St Louis'. Charles Lindbergh poses on steps next to French President Gaston Doumergue. He wears the Honor Legion medal awarded by the French President
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