The Allied invasion fleet on a beachhead in Normandy as seen from a glider during the D-Day landings in World War II. A pilot talks through a radio. United States gliders on the ground are seen, some of the planes are partly demolished after landing.
Road graders and bulldozers leveling a new airstrip in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. Rolls of Marston Mat steel planking in the foreground. A Piper L-4 plane lands and takes off from the new strip. A United States soldier radio operator working with a colleague.
Colonel Charles A Lindbergh lands in Paris after his solo trans-Atlantic flight. A large crowd at Le Bourget Field in Paris. People on the roof of a building and on the ground. A huge crowd rushes towards Lindbergh as he arrives. Men adjust large search lights illuminating the night sky.
Exterior of night clubs Folies Bergere, Les Naturjistes, Lido and Casino de Paris. A night shot of Champs Elysees is seen. 1956.
Paris Air Show. Spectators in exhibit area view aircraft on static display. Visitors crowd ramp leading into the giant Lockheed C-5A Galaxy aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command. views from above, of the C-5A and visitors walking on the tarmac, at Le Bourget Airport. Several other aircraft in the background. A huge sign reads 'Salon International'. Crowd stands outside the entrance. The U.S. and French flags seen. Spectators enter open aircraft.
Charles A. Lindbergh posing in front of his airplane, "The Spirit of St. Louis." The Spirit of St. Louis landing at an airfield in the United States. People gathered around the Spirit of St. Louis, with its engine running.Lindbergh climbing aboard his airplane at Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927, and taking off on his historic solo transatlantic flight to Paris. View of Lindbergh climbing steeply in the Spirit of St. Louis during his flight from Paris to Brussels, in 1927, Nightime scenes of crowds running to see Lindbergh upon his arrival at Le Bourget airfield in Paris on May 21, 1927. French President Gaston Doumergue stands with Lindbergh on a balcony, where they wave the French tricolor. They converse, framed by American flags (one of which, almost falls from the balcony). Lindbergh holds and waves both the American flag and the French tricolor. The French President presents the Honor Legion Medal to Charles Lindbergh. Tug boats and fire boats fill New York Harbor to welcome Charles A. Lindbergh upon his arrival in that city. New York fetes Lindbergh with tickertape parade.
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