United States Army Air Service (USAAS) 94th Fighter Squadron in Toul, France during World War I. Captain J. A. Meissner climbs out of the cockpit of Eddie Rickenbacker's SPAD S. XIII fighter aircraft and walks away. "Hat in Ring" insignia on side of the aircraft. Three ground crewmen work on a SPAD XIII. 1st Lieutenant Allan Rankin who is an Engineering Officer reads a notice. They pound each other on the back and jump around. Commanding Officer 1st Pursuit Squadron Major Hartney and Operations Officer 94th Aero Squadron Lieutenant Cunningham stand in front of a Fokker V-8 shot down by Lieutenant Rickenbacker. In Toul, France on 18th April, 1918: A group of officers of 94th Aero Squadron including Major J. W. F. M. Huffer, Major Raoul Lufbery, Captain J. N. Hall, Captain Kenneth Marr, Captain D. McK. Peterson, Lieutenant J. B. H. Smith, Lieutenant C. A. Rankin, Lieutenant Reed Chambers, Lieutenant Douglas Campbell, Lieutenant W. L. Loomis, Lieutenant James N. Neissner, Lieutenant M. E. Green, Lieutenant A. L. Cunningham, Lieutenant A. F. Winslow, Lieutenant C. W. Chapman and Lieutenant P. H. Walter, Surgeon, standing in front of a USAAS Nieuport 28 C-l.
Exiled European royalty King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in North America during World War II. King Peter of Yugoslavia meets United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his cabinet at the White House in Washington DC, United States. The King and the President seated in chairs. American journalists and photographers in the foreground. King Peter and President Roosevelt talk to each other. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands visits her heir Princess Juliana at their home at Stornoway in Ottawa, Canada. Queen Wilhelmina meets her granddaughters, Beatrix and Irene. They are seated in chairs in a lawn. Princess Beatrix and Princess Irene play on a seesaw.
Assembly and transportation of tanks in the United States during World War II. A tank manufacturing plant. Tanks drives down a hilly terrain. Tanks roll off an assembly line. The tanks are assembled as parts are carried via an overhead crane. Equipment of steel, rubber, tin and aluminum to be used in assembly of the tanks. Men work on the tanks. The tanks are transported via trains and ships. Ships at sea. The tanks advance in a battle field.
Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Flags of the Allies are unfurled at the Tempelhof airfield. Lined up cars at the airfield. An English airplane arrives with Royal Air Force Marshal Arthur William Tedder (Lord Tedder) and U.S. Army General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Lord Tedder and General Spaatz shake hands with Soviet officers including Soviet Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky. Field Marshal Keitel and staff arrive. A band plays as Soviet troops march. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel enters a car and reads surrender papers. Lord Tedder and other officials get into cars. The cars are driven away from the airfield.
Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Officials are driven through ruined streets of Berlin to headquarters where surrender papers are signed. Guards stand on duty at the gate of the headquarter building. Interior of the building. Officials and officers enter the building. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel sitting at a table. He talks to an officer.
Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Interior of headquarters where surrender papers are signed. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Stumpf and Friedensburg sign surrender documents followed by Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov; Royal Air Force Marshal Arthur William Tedder and U.S. Army General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Soviet deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Vyshinsky and French Army General DeLattre de Tassigny present.
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