American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes lands in Paris, France. Hughes’ Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra (named ‘New York World’s Fair 1939’) in flight. Aircraft at Le Bourget airfield in Paris, France. People gather in large numbers to give a warm reception to pilot Howard Hughes during his around the world flight. United States Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt Jr. attends the welcome party. Flags of the United States and France on flagpoles. Hughes speaks to the reporters during his refueling stop. Hughes boards the plane and takes off.
View of collaborationist French soldiers from the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme, or, Légion des volontaires français, or LVF.) The LVF soldiers, made of of right-wing French and French prisoners, are marching through the streets of Versailles, in Vichy France, toward the Versailles Chantiers train station, to begin their trip to the Soviet Union where they will fight together with Germany against Soviet forces in World War 2. To the Germans they were known as Infantry Regiment, or Infanterieregiment 638. Led by a Band, the soldiers march through streets of Versailles and uphill toward the main arched entrance of the Versailles Chantiers station. Civilians line streets to bid farewell, and some women kiss soldiers goodbye. View of black locomotive leading the train. LVF board a train car with chalk inscription on the side "Paris - Moscow, LVF".
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) fire machine guns at the First Division Training Camp, Gondrecourt-le-Chateau, Department Meuse,France, during World War 1. A French instructor coaches each American soldier as they fire French Chauchat C.S.R.G. Model 1915 light machine guns.Bullets pass through the targets and strike the embankment behind at the firing range.
(Only Fragments of Sound.) Night time in Paris, France. A neon sign at a night club in Paris for Le Rat Mort. Visitors seated at tables. Acrobatics performed on stage. Neon signs at clubs and cafes. People seated at tables inside a restaurant. Women follies dancers perform in the center. Men and women seated and talking. A woman dances. Couples dance with each other. The moon over a lit tower. People outside a club in the rain as a car approaches. Workers on a raft in the water and in a tunnel carrying hand lanterns.
Civilian writes on wall "Vive Les Americans" in Troyes, France. Scenes after destruction. Scenes of street signs. French civilians destroy German street signs.
Ex-Servicemen Strike to announce the condemnation of war in Paris, France. Thousands of Ex-Servicemen from World War I march in a stirring of parade with banners. They hold hands as they march with an anti-war, pacifist theme. Several people in the center on tricycles. Also disabled veterans in wheel chairs. Banners state 'Les Croix de Bois'. Ambient sound from the rally is heard.
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