United States President Richard Nixon on tour to Romania. Motorcycle escorts and motorcade of President Nixon drives on the roads of Bucharest. Huge crowd of people stand on both sides of the road and cheer for him. President Nixon and Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu emerge from sunroof of their car and wave towards the crowd. Security guards keep a vigil. People from a residential building watch the welcome of the President.
Calisthenics in Bucharest, Romania during World War II. Romanian youth do calisthenics in a stadium. Participants march in a review. People cheer in the stadium. Romanian Prime Minister Ion Victor Antonescu with others review the parade. Ion Victor Antonescu awards prizes to men.
A parade in Bucharest , Romania. A large number of people gather to witness the parade. Dignitaries from various Balkan nations at the parade. Troops pass in review. Infantry and cavalry units march past the dignitaries at a colorful ceremony.
Shows the 55th Independence Day celebration in Bucharest, Rumania (Romania). Military forces exhibit a parade at Calle Victoria. Ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece, sister of King Carol, with his son Prince Michael heads the colorful column through the streets of the city. Shows a delegation of the hierarchy of the Greek Orthodox Church led by the Patriarch Miron Christea.
The Fernic T-9 airplane, featuring canard,and tricycle gear, parked at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, with engines running. It shuts down. Ground crewman pulls propeller through on left engine. Pilot,designer, George Fernic, seen at controls in cockpit. Ground crewmen at each wing, rotate the airplane with its engines running. George Fernic posing in front of the aircraft. Another view of the airplane parked on grass. Camera pans upward from nosewheel. (Note:Fernic hoped to fly the T-9 in a record flight from the U.S. to Bucharest, Romania.)
Formations of B-24 Liberator bombers are seen in flight, headed for Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943, during World War 2. Next, vertical columns of bombs are seen falling from the planes. Animated map of Europe shows Romania and Ploesti. It show paths of oil from the Ploesti oil fields to Germany. (Narrator states Ploesti provides 30% of Axis oil.) Map show path of 9th Air Force bombers from Libya to the Ploesti oil fields. Scenes shift to captured German films from 1944, showing the fires and destruction resulting from the constant B-24 raids. Huge black clouds rise from the area. Firefighters rush to combat flames. They direct streams of water on the conflagrations. (Commenter states: "Delayed action bombs prevented firefighters from rushing in, until too late.") Nighttime views of large fires and heavy smoke from 6 of Ploesti's 7 refineries ripped wide open. Film advances to August, 1944, showing Ploesti with the fires out, following Rumania's capitulation. Next, with some fires still burning, King Michael I of Romania, tours the site with military officers. They walk amidst the debris. Smoke rising near a rail marshaling yard. Against a background of dense smoke rising, a Slate is displayed showing the cost to the United States of the Ploesti raids, as 300 bombers and 3000 American airmen were lost.
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