Refine Your Search

Europe 1969 stock footage and images

- Showing 49 to 54 of 2494 results
American correspondents visit cemetery in Opijnen, Gelderland, the Netherlands for Memorial Day ceremony honoring U.S. B-17 crew

American correspondents in Netherlands to mark 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. A steamer underway in a canal. Views in the village of Opijnen, in Gelderland, the Netherlands. A correspondent and his wife come out of a house. American correspondents near a bus. Houses along a road. An American flag at the walled cemetery in Opijnen, beside its 17th century Dutch Reformed Church, where the crew members of an American B-17 bomber from the 323 Squadron of the 91st Bomb Group (H) of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force are buried; shot down July 30, 1943 by the German Luftwaffe. Gravestones bearing the names of American soldiers who lost their lives when their crippled B-17 was shot down, including: Mike Anthony Perrotta, Hermon Daines Poling, Harold Royce Sparks, Robert Urquhart Duggan, Douglas Victor Blackwood, Americo Cianfichi. U.S. Color Guard marches from a town building toward the cemetery. A woman correspondent takes pictures. An American flag flies at half mast. Men, women and children at the cemetery. Dutch children carry flowers in their hands. The mayor of Opijnen speaks into a microphone. He and a woman place flowered wreaths at the graves of dead American soldiers. Two groups of four U.S. Convair F-102 Delta Dagger aircraft fly overhead followed by four F-104 Starfighters of the Royal Netherlands Airforce. Children walk past the graves. Additional propeller aircraft pass overhead honoring the airmen.

Date: 1969, May
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022088
American former war correspondents travel in a bus and meet in the Netherlands and Belgium during reunion tour

American former war correspondents in the Netherlands and Belgium to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe during World War 2. A sign on a building reads 'Esso Motor Hotel.' American correspondents leave the hotel. Road sign for "Maastricht". Airport hangar with lettering "Airport Luchthaven Zuid Limburg." A bus driven past a civilian band parading down a street. The correspondents seated in the bus. The bus driven past fields in the countryside. A road sign for "Centrum / Belgie". The correspondents get off the bus and enter a government building likely in Antwerp Belgium. Views from inside a bus as the correspondents arrive at NATO headquarters in Brussels. They get off the bus. The correspondents seated around a table during a meeting.

Date: 1969, June
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022089
Former American war correspondents get aerial views of Paris from a helicopter during a tour.

Group of former U.S. war correspondents in Paris, France to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. A view of railway tracks as seen from a moving train. American correspondents outside the U.S. Embassy in Paris. The group is joined by R. Sargent Shriver, then American Ambassador to France. The Eiffel Tower in Paris, viewed from a moving bus. Correspondents at a U.S. military helicopter pad in Paris. A helicopter lifts off. Aerial views of a city as seen from the helicopter. View of the Seine river and buildings of Paris below. Correspondents get off a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Another smaller helicopter, the blades rotate.

Date: 1969, June
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022090
New Boeing 747 and first Concorde prototype, F-WTSS, at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France

Former American war correspondents in Paris, France to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. A helicopter lifts off. A newly delivered Boeing 747 aircraft at Le Bourget Airport. Correspondents stand under an umbrella near the aircraft. They examine the exterior and interior of the new 747. Civilians stand behind barricades. The first Concorde prototype, Concorde F-WTSS, also on display for the crowds. Correspondents seated in a Pan Am lounge at the airport.

Date: 1969, June
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022091
Former war correspondents and military leaders dine in Normandy, France

Former American war correspondents in France to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. Correspondents arrive at a seaside dining room near the beaches of Normandy. American flags along a stairway. Cooks prepare food. The correspondents greet dignitaries. Dignitaries including British and American military officers climb up the stairs. The correspondents and dignitaries seated around a table as they eat. A man kisses a woman. Retired U.S. General J. Lawton Collins seen with the group near end of clip.

Date: 1969, June
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022092
Views of Soviet missiles and a missile launch

Two Soviet missiles readying for launch as their platforms raise from a horizontal to an angled position. View of a different missile from the base of its silo. A Soviet Army technician at a control panel preparing for a missile launch. Views of a missile emerging from its silo, with smoke and fire emitting from the sides of the silo as the missile rockets upward.

Date: 1969
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031086