American troops aboard Navy transport at pier. Troops embark on Navy transports at Hoboken.
Reenactment of WWI aerial combat action from a 1927 film with Richard Arlen. Aircraft engage in dogfight. Smoking German plane dives and crashes. In another scene, American airplane chases German plane causing it to crash land at German Aerodrome. View through tail as American airplane pulls up and Germans rush to aid of their pilot. Pilot of American airplane (movie actor, Richard Arlen) laughs as he looks over his shoulder from the cockpit of his airplane. Wounded German pilot falls out of his cockpit.
King Alfonzo XIII of Spain, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, and other officials, speak with a Roman Catholic clergyman inside bombed-out remains of Cathedral of Notre-Dame (7 Pl. Mgr Ginisty, 55100 Verdun, France) in Verdun, France. The king and others walk out of the building. King Alfonso XIII at the Gare de Verdun train station. King Alfonzo XIII, and others, escorted by French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, examines the Verdun battlefield. Snow on the ground. From a high point overlooking the battlefield, Marshal Foch points out key locations with his swagger stick and then escorts the king down into a trench and dugout. The king with Marshal Foch in a car.
Members of the French battalion decorate in the presence of NATO commander General Matthew Ridgway. Battalion marches and officers salute.
Premier Joesph Laniel leaves the car and walks up the steps. Premier converses with his cabinet men.
Soviet Russian Polikarpov I-16 (type5) fighter airplanes parked on a flight line. Engines are started and running on several of them. Next, the 12in triple gun turret of the Soviet Gangut class battleship, Parizhskaya Kommuna dominates a front view of the ship. This Dreadnought battleship (formerly the Sevastopol) was updated in 1928 and deployed in the Black Sea Fleet. Next, a huge open field is seen, filled with Soviet T-26 tanks raising dust as they move in formation. Scene shifts to an industrial steel plant, where a Soviet steel worker looks into a blast furnace peep hole to assess the state of the process. He phones others to tell them it is ready to be tapped. View of steel workers, in protective clothing, pulling the furnace plug. Molten steel flows from the furnace through open channels in the floor. Initially, slag floats atop the molten steel. View from an elevated platform in the steel plant, as the molten steel making its way along the floor of the plant. Workers shield their faces from the heat as they observe the flowing steel. Closeup of individual steel workers conversing. Molten steel cascading down to a lower level in the plant into containers (unseen). View shifts to outside the plant where several steel-carrying rail car crucibles comprise a railroad train that is moved away from the plant by a locomotive.
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