NATO Project Cirrus, Gilze Rijen Air Base, in the Netherlands, 1951. A pair of de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft fly low over the field and make a tactical overhead approach. One is seen landing. Next a Gloster Meteor jet is seen heading toward the camera and passing low overhead. It climbs and makes executes an aerobatic maneuver and then speeds past the camera and lands. As it taxis on the airfield the background is rich in detail of the field and homes in the vicinity. Several Meteor aircraft are seen parked in a cluster on the field. The taxiing aircraft approaches them an parks among them.
A BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) de Havilland Comet (MK2) airplane in flight. The aircraft, powered by Rolls-Royce engines, is flying from Zürich to London at a speed of almost 400 miles per hour. The jet plane is seen cruising above clouds.
Budapest 1942, during World War 2: The funeral procession of Lt. Istvan Horthy de Nagybanya, son of Hungarian regent Admiral Miklos Horthy. Mounted soldiers in the street. A large crowd gathered to pay homage. Officers walk along with the casket on a cart. Officers salute as soldiers carry the casket into the cathedral. A long line of people wait outside the cathedral to pay their respects. Soldiers carry the casket inside the cathedral. Banners stating: 'Adolf Hitler' and 'Benito Mussolini'. A banner with the Swastika. Officers give a Nazi salute. Foreign Minister of Germany Joachim Von Ribbentrop and of Italy Gian Galeazzo Ciano attend the services. The decorated casket. The officials and dignitaries seated inside the cathedral.
View of the old Boston Harbor. Fishermen de-icing the fishing boats at Boston, United States.
Crew aboard U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677), load and practice firing at a floating target. Crew fires deck guns, launches torpedoes and depth charges, and fires "hedge hog" bomb clusters. Shells hit water surface and explode. Aerial view of large explosions in water. (World War II period).
Spanish Head of State, Francisco Franco, hosts Portuguese Prime Minister, António de Oliveira Salazar, in Seville, Spain during World War 2. Arriving Portuguese Officials greet Francisco Franco. Francisco Franco and Salazar visit the Alcazar of Seville and review the Moorish guards. Aerial view of the city.
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