United States Army General Dwight David Eisenhower aboard the USS Des Moines (CA-134) in the Pacific Theater. Dwight David Eisenhower talks to United States Navy Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney and Vice Admiral Matthias B. Gardner on the flag bridge of the ship. A signalman sends a message with a blinker light. USS Leyte moves left to right in the sea. The blinker light flashes. A sailor uses the blinker signal. USS Des Monies moves through water.
U.S.General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Powers Europe, aboard USS Des Moines (CA-134) with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. General Eisenhower takes photographs of United States Navy Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney and Vice Admiral Matthias B. Gardner with his stereo camera. Sailors and marines in formation on the deck. Dwight David Eisenhower, Robert Bostwick Carney and Matthias B. Gardner talk. A Sikorsky H-5 helicopter rises from the deck and flies off. USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) at sea. The rails of USS Des Moines (CA-134) in the foreground. Several carrier-based aircraft put on a demonstration, strafing and firing rockets into the water.
Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja appointed as the Prime Minister after winning a revolution in Madrid, Spain. Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja hugs an officer. He comes out of a building with officials.
American inventor Lee De Forest in his laboratory in Hollywood. American inventor Lee De Forest carrying out tests in his laboratory. He lights up a flame and uses an instrument.
Allied officers in Brazzaville, Congo during World War II. Reception for French General Charles de Gaulle. Men and women talk. Trees in the background. General de Gaulle talks to soldiers.
Italian aviator, General Francesco de Pinedo, attempts takeoff in his Bellanca airplane, named the Santa Lucia. The Italian flag is painted on the aircraft rudder. The ship is heavily laden with fuel for a solo long-distance flight from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Baghdad, Iraq. The aircraft is seen to wander during the takeoff roll and with loss of control, crashes near a fence alongside the runway. The aircraft breaks into pieces, and with one wing sticking straight up in the air, begins to burn. It is immediately consumed in fire. Vehicles rush to the scene. Hangar number 6, at Floyd Bennett field, can be seen in background, with "Erickson and Remmert, Inc." painted on it. De Pinedo died in the accident.
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