Map showing Germany and nearby regions after conclusion of World War I. Writing indicates areas on map including Battle Line at End of Hostilities, Line to Which Germans Must Retreat, and Neutral Zone (between the two areas). Slate indicates that German Kaiser Wilhelm II had just abdicated (28 November, 1918) and shows footage of Kaiser Wilhelm II on horseback at a formal event. Next scene shows a massive human formation of soldiers in the shape of the Liberty Bell known as "The Human Liberty Bell", formed by 25,000 officers and men at Camp Dix, New Jersey to celebrate the armistice in World War 1 and the abdication of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Camera pans upward to show the human bell from base to top. Next scenes show key Allied military leaders in World War I: British General Haig reviewing troops; France General Philippe Petain emerging from a building; Group of French soldiers marching; Italian General Diaz together with French officers reviewing troops; and King Albert of Belgium exiting a building outside Paris during World War 1 and entering a waiting horse-drawn carriage. View of United States President Woodrow Wilson reading newspaper and seated in a chair. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
World Figure Skating Championship in Colorado. The greatest performers in the figure skating world compete for Champions at Colorado Springs. Petra Burka of Canada gives her outstanding performance and awarded with first position. Spectators clap. 16 Year old Ethan Allen of New Jersey takes second place in the men's event. Alain Calmat of France, second in the 1964 Olympics gives flawless performance to wind up King of the Ice.
'The Epic American Trans Atlantic Flight' depicts crashes involving various pilots in the United States during early aviation history. Captain Charles A. Lindbergh. On September 21, 1926, Rena Fonck stands in front of his Sikorsky airplane, ready to try a solo flight across the Atlantic to Paris. He takes off and crashes in flames. Navy Commander Richard E. Byrd poses. On April 16, 1927, his Fokker C-2 trimotor airplane ("America"), piloted by Anthony Fokker, with Byrd, Floyd Bennett, and George O. Norville on board, flips over on takeoff at Hasborough, New Jersey. In September, 1927, Clarence Chamberlin in a Bellanca aircraft taxis and takes off. The tail and right main wheel dig into the soft field on landing and the airplane is severely damaged. The wreck of the "American Legion" Keystone Pathfinder airplane that carried Commander Noel Davis and Lieutenant Stanton Wooster to their deaths, in a crash landing, in the Back river, near Langley Field, Virginia, In Paris, on April 26, 1927, French pilot, Captain Charles Nungesser, and Francois Coli pose before taking off on their ill fated flight in a Levasseur PL8 aircraft named " White Bird." Charles Lindbergh standing next to his mother, Evangeline Land Lindbergh. The "Spirit of St. Louis" is towed out and refueled at Mineola, New York. Charles Lindbergh climbs into the plane and makes a bumpy takeoff. Bystanders watch. People gather to greet him upon arrival in Paris. Lindbergh poses with U.S. Ambassador to France Myron Herrick. Lindbergh honored by the French President Gaston Doumergue.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. The group includes Frances E. Walters from Pennsylvania, Eugene Worley from Texas, Carter Manasco and Albert Rains from Alabama, Henry W. Jackson from Washington, Earl Wilson from Indiana, Marion Bennet from Missouri, Gordon Canfield from New Jersey, Major General Vanier of the Canadian Army and Major Walter Mosmiller of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces) who is in charge of the tour. The group views piles of dead bodies and crematoriums. The group poses in front of a memorial.
Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield during World War II) in the United States. Flashbacks show the USS Manhattan being christened by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt on 5th December 1931. It is seen being launched from New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden New Jersey. View of maiden voyage on 10th August 1932, with passengers boarding the ship. It leaves a port for her first trip to Ireland, England, Germany and France. Couples dance aboard the deck of the SS Manhattan. Passengers including Babe Ruth, Jimmy Walker, Glenn Cunningham, and aviator Douglas Corrigan ("Wrong Way Corrigan") seen aboard the ship.
Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II. Animated map of Europe shows locations of concentration camps in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Denmark, France, Germany, Isle of Jersey, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland and Yugoslavia. Dead bodies at Leipzig Concentration Camp. Living Russians, Czechoslovakian and French prisoners narrate horror stories. Bodies of prisoners who the Nazi German guards had placed in a building and then set on fire. Dead bodies of those who fled and escaped from the burning building, but were then either shot by the guards while fleeing, or electrocuted by live wire fence. Russian woman looks at dead bodies through a fence.
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