Ground testing of the de Bothezat quadrotor helicopter at McCook Field, hangar in background. Helicopter contraption demonstrating lift and movement on airfield. Men hanging on to side of helicopter assisting with its early flight.
New Zealand military units in training. Military pilots standing with parachute bags. De Havilland Tiger Moth and Airspeed Oxford aircrafts taking off and in flight over the New Zealand Alps.
A banner announces elections for President of Quatemala, on October 10th, 1954. A poster showing the sole candidate, Carlos Castillo Armas. Voters lined up at a polling place. Views of the voters registering and voting. Carlos Castillo Armas and his wife, Odilia de Castillo Armas, are seen among people at the polling place. People crowd around them as they register and vote. An official shaking hands with Armas, as his wife stands nearby and people gather around them. Armas conversing with offiicials and military officers. A woman with an official, shakes hands with Mrs. Armas. Closeups of the Armas couple surrounded by well-wishers.
A guard marches in the compound of a hotel. United Kingdom's Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated. French General Charles de Gaulle. General George Marshall with U.S. Air Force Chief, Lieutenant General Henry H. (Hap) Arnold. General Marshall with British General Brooke. Sir Dudley Pound, British Naval Chief, with American counterpart, Admiral William D. Leahy. Winston Churchill and President Franklin D Roosevelt seated and other British and American officials stand behind. American and British troops meet in Tunisia. Troops share cigarettes in the battlefield. General Eisenhower shakes hands with British General Montgomery. British troops advance in the battlefield. Aircraft of Allied Forces strafe German targets on the ground. American tanks advance. German prisoners marched off by French soldiers. German prisoners captured. Crowd cheers in a French city which was occupied by Germans earlier. French soldiers and crowd celebrate. (World War II period).
Presidential motorcade arrives at Tampa De Soto Exposition in Key West, Florida. Men walk behind President's car and a man opens a door for President Roosevelt. Navy officials gathered. President Roosevelt on radio stress on the importance of "Government by consent of the governed" and says that democracy must be maintained in the new world. A boat with Navy cadets going.
July 26, 1953. View of the Moncada army barracks near Santiago de Cuba. Soldiers are dispatched and walk past bullet pocked walls to view the bodies of dead revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro in an unsuccessful attack on the barracks. They sort through a pile of materials, including weapons, taken from the fallen revolutionaries. The Army is preparing to pursue the revolutionaries, who have fled into the mountains.View of military hospital. Flag-covered coffins of fallen combatants are lined up in a courtyard, surrounded by spectators. Armed guards are present. Police examine arms captured from revolutionaries and their damaged hideout. Violence is seen in the streets, as police try to control it. Injured persons brought to a hospital. Castro is surrounded by admirers and talks to them.
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