French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot in France (opening slate incorrectly lists his name as Jean Bleriot). Blériot sitting at the controls of his first monoplane, the first to cross the English Channel. Louis Bleriot's airplane, the Blériot XI takes off.
French aviator Henri Farman flies his aircraft in France in 1908. Tail to nose section view of Henry Farman flying his aircraft. Farman prepares his aircraft for the flight, pours fuel in a gas tank from a small can. Farman's aircraft takes off.
French aviator Louis Blériot flies his aircraft in France in 1909. Bleriot sitting at the controls of his aircraft. A mechanic pulls propeller through. The aircraft takes off and flies low.
A film showing the Wright Brothers who created history in the field of aviation. Orville Wright smiles. Wilbur Wright and two Frenchmen on an airfield in France. Rows and rows of aircraft parked on a large airfield. Junker type aircraft stationary. Rows and rows of small Italian aircraft. Russian four-engine bombers pass over Moscow, Soviet Union. A formation of early bombers. A formation of early model U.S. aircraft.
French women working in France during World War I. Women and men seated inside a room. Women manufacture harnesses for horses. An officer talking to a woman and inspecting a harness. Horses and horse-carts on a field. Soldiers riding bicycles. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A railroad train carrying a U.S. Navy 14-inch railway gun, on a Mk I gun car, along with other cars containing associated personnel,supplies and equipment, arriving at a depot in France, during World 1. Most of the cars are marked "USN." In next scene, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, stands in a field with two U.S. Navy Captains and U.S. Army Major General Henry T. Allen, along with two other Army officers. General Allen escorts Roosevelt to the railway gun train, where he climbs aboard the rear access door of the Mk I car. An American flag flies over the car. Camera pans along the car to where Roosevelt is seen standing beneath the 14-inch gun barrel. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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