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Polish people honor dead heroes of the Resistance in Warsaw, at end of World War II.
Officials assembling to honor fallen Polish Resistance heroes. A speaker stand displaying the Polish Military Eagle Insignia is set up in a square in Warsaw. Demolished and damaged buildings are seen in the background. Cars arrive carrying officials. Polish military and police stand along the square and many people are assembled behind them holding flags of all sorts. Closeup of well-dressed civilian officials presenting an official Government citation for Kyzyzem Grunwaldu (the cross of Grunwald). A Polish general stands with officers of Allied forces, including British and French, and a Polish civilian official. A group of uniformed Allied military men and women standing in front of war-torn ruins. Polish troops parade followed by Polish girls and boys carrying a large banner. View of numerous crosses marking graves of fallen in the ruins. Camera pans over scene of desolation and destruction. Wreaths placed at a memorial site among the ruins. Crude lettering in concrete wall reads something about being part of the wall where Resistance Fighters were killed. Details and date are obscured.
A brief film visit to the animals at the Tierpark Hagenbeck near Hamburg, Germany
Visitors strolling at the Hagenbeck zoo (Tierpark Hagenbeck) in Stellingen, near Hamburg, Germany. A herd of ponies coming out of a large zoo building, into an open yard. Ostriches mixing in a yard with zebras. Young people enjoying the antics of brown bears and zebras. A man and woman smiling as they watch the animals. A male lion, in his pen, walks toward the camera, as does a rhinoceros (missing a horn) in his pen. A father holds his young daughter up so she can see better. A number of mountain goats are climbing down rocks in their enclosure. A British soldier is amongst the visitors watching the animals. View from behind spectators watching elepants in their large outdoor area. Closeup of elephant's eye. Two elephants in harnesses are seen at work, lifting large iron radiators from rubble at the side of a road in town. They place the radiators on a flat bed trailer. Next, they tow a large steel framework from the rubble. A large group of spectators watches these goings on, and some feed one of the elephants, putting a piece of fruit in its trunk. The keeper directs the elephants to other heavy objects in the rubble, which they pick up and carry with their trunks, placing them on the flat bed trailer. With crowds still watching, the zoo keeper leads leads the elephants as they pull the loaded trailer along the street, while pedestrians watch. (World War II period).
Retired General Pershing supports destroyers for bases deal; Charles Lindbergh supports U.S.neutrality in World War 2.
Prominent Americans with opposing pro-war versus anti-war messages early in World War 2. Retired U.S. General of the Army, John J. Pershing and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, express opposing sentiments in public statements. The 79 years old U.S. Army officer General John J. Pershing seated at a desk and speaks into a microphone. He speaks in support of the so-called "Destroyers for Bases" initiative of the Roosevelt administration (without using that term). Among his opening remarks, he states,"With democracy and liberty overthrown on the Continent of Europe, only the British are left to defend democracy and liberty ...." In contrast, speaking at a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, sponsored by the "Committee to Keep America Out of War," Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh argues against American involvement in World War II.
U.S. 82nd Airborne Division troops board an LCV in St. Marcouf, France during World War II.
D-Day Invasion of St. Marcouf, France during World War II. U.S. 82nd Airborne Division troops walk in a squad and move past a British guard . They walk down a harbor where they board a Landing Craft Vehicle (LCV). Boats at the harbor in the background. The troops in the LCV leave the harbor.
Life and times of Henry Ford and the Model T, with events from 1904 through 1936 (not always in chronological order).
Mix of scenes covering Henry Ford and his Model T cars, Model Ts travel through a stream and along rutted roads and through snow. Ford Model Ts equipped with special wheels travel on the rails along a railroad trestle. One drives slowly along a large pipeline. Views inside Ford auto factory of assembly line operations. Car hoods being pressed into shape. Car bodies on assembly line. Engine blocks moving on conveyer. Car bodies being placed on chassis. Henry Ford walking along garden path at his home, Fairlane, in Dearborn Michigan. Glimpse of Henry Ford joking with Scottish comedian, Harry Lauder, in 1914. Henry ford tinkering with an old steam engine, and later, driving one of his tractors. Ford in his office conferring with employees. Family gathering as Edsel Ford is about to embark on a transcontinental trip with Model T Ford cars, on May 5, 1924. The Fords doing country dances together. Henry Ford camping with Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs (later seen driving a 1918 Ford Model T). Views of the men (who called themselves the "Four Vagabonds," as they dine under a tent and use a large Lazy Susan table. Ford speaking directly into Edison's right ear (he was hard of hearing) while Firestone looks on, amused. Edsel Ford with his father outdoors, and in the Ford factory. Father and son sitting by the Quadricycle with a 1936 white Ford sedan behind them. Portrait of Henry Ford. Luxury limousine at a mansion. It has no right side door for the chauffeur, and a right hand steering wheel (British built?) Woman enters and luxurious interior is described. Chauffeur enters at left door and slides across seat to right-side steering wheel. Lincoln chauffeured limousine passes and parks in front of a Model T. May 1927, men assemble the body onto the 15 millionth Model T car, and it drives away with Henry Ford as passenger. Old Ford cars brought into plant where they are seen being crushed and scrapped, and their steel recycled into new cars.
A wrecked P-47 Thunderbolt, CG-4A glider & C-47 Skytrain lying on a field in France.
Wreckage of Allied aircraft destroyed during the invasion of Normandy, in World War 2. Location: a field in Normandy,France. A destroyed Martin B-26 Marauder bomber with a propeller on the ground beside it. A wrecked British Horsa glider, with front part of its fuselage missing.Remnants of other gliders. A propeller sitting alone in the field. Remains of a destroyed C-47 transport plane.
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