Wife of British RAF (Royal Air Force) pilot who was awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down an enemy aircraft while his own aircraft was burning. She lifts her baby from a pram in front of her house. She displays her husband's burned shoe and flight gear. She then reads formal letters about award of the Victoria Cross. Her husband pilot is seen with two other RAF fliers relaxing amongst other service personnel at a medical recuperation facility. They sit at a small table and smoke cigarettes. (World War II period).
San Francisco Security conference of representatives of four powers meets in Washington DC prior to the United Nations San Francisco Parley. United States Secretary of States Edward R. Stettinius Jr. meets British ambassador to U.S. Edward Wood (Lord Halifax), Russian ambassador to U.S. Andrei Gromyko, and Chinese ambassador to U.S., Dr. Wei Tao-ming. Assistant Secretary Archibald MacLeish speaks on a microphone. Chinese ambassador speaks. Assistant Secretary of State, Archibald MacLeish, poses and talks on a microphone.
Dignitaries meet for Potsdam Conference in Cecilienhof, Germany. United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower greets President Harry S. Truman at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. President Truman salutes the marching troops. Troops march with flags. President and general review troops. Palace of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern in Potsdam. United Kingdom Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrives. President Truman meets Attlee and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Russian leader Joseph Stalin arrives. Stalin shake hands with Attlee. Truman meets Stalin. Truman, Attlee and Stalin pose. They all sit at a round table. (World War II period)
Departure of United States Major General Charles Andrew Willoughby from Yokohama, Japan. Maj. Gen. Willoughby inspects troops. He says good-bye to officers. He shakes hands with British Brigadier General A. K. Ferguson. Willoughby says good-bye, talks to officers, smiles and frowns.
Comments made by British journalist Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay, a female passenger arriving at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States aboard the zeppelin airship Hindenburg. Lady Hay Drummond-Hay speaks about her experience traveling aboard the German Zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ-129). She had already made about 6 flights aboard Zeppelins. However, she says that she enjoyed the trip tremendously, that it was a real revelation.She felt the Graf Zeppelin was like a "stalking" experiment in such travel, but this was something real and "wonderful." She says that they used to talk to the crew. She speaks about lounge, dining room, flowers, cooking and cabins of the zeppelin.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth along with Prince Philip arrives in Williamsburg, Virginia, for a ceremony to mark the 350th Anniversary of the first British settlement in the New World. Queen Elizabeth is escorted by the Governor of Virginia, Thomas Bahnson Stanley. She addresses the United States people. Queen Elizabeth takes a look at copy of the Magna Carta and signs the guest register. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower welcomes the Royal couple in Washington D.C. Photographers take pictures. The honor guard stands with rifles in hand. Mamie Doud Eisenhower welcomes Queen Elizabeth at the White House.
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