Newsreel 'Fashion parade'. Italian women wearing vintage Flapper girl dresses and long gloves. Women twirl as they enter a room. Models parade in elegant Rome saloons in the latest designs of Italian fashion designers. A model shows off her balloon dress. Stylish evening gowns with balloon skirts are given more emphasis.
A group of children sit and eat with a four year old chimpanzee at his birthday party. The chimpanzee wears clothes and a chain. It drinks milk from a huge bottle. The party ends up with a roller skating round of fun, for the chimpanzee and the children. The chimpanzee uses his long hands while skating and makes funny faces.
German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf-110 twin engine heavy fighter aircraft in flight during World War II. The plane flies low over field and attacks aircraft on the ground with cannon fire. Gun camera footage and point of view from inside Bf-110 aircraft during attack. Aerial view of Bf-110 in formation. Next scene shows close up aerial views of a formation of German Junkers Ju 86 bombers in flight. A pilot seen in the cockpit. Fire and smoke seen. Squadron of Ju 86 in formation, returning from a mission. At the German home base, A Junkers JU-52 is forced to make a landing on one wheel when the other seems to be lost due to enemy fire or accident. The pilot skillfully keeps the aircraft rolling on the one good wheel as long as possible, and then it falls and spins to the side. The crew evacuates and no one is injured, although the aircraft is seriously damaged. The Luftwaffe crew looks over the damage.
Stark battle landscape during battle of Eniwetok. U.S. forces taking cover as Japanese resistance continues. Dead Japanese soldier on the battlefield. Burned body of a dead Japanese soldier half emerged from a fox hole. U.S. marines attack Japanese in a cave entrance with hand grenades. Flamethrowers project a long stream of fire. Fire and smoke seen. A marine walks to a motionless Japanese soldier, pokes at him with rifle, then shoots him. U.S. Marines carry wounded down the beach in Eniwetok Island.
View from the ground at Mitchel Field, on Long Island Spirit as the Spirit of St. Louis is seen circling to land. A small group of people stand near a hangar. Lindbergh's plane lands on the grass field and taxis toward three army soldiers there to help him park. Lindbergh, in flying gear, steps from his airplane. Closeups of him standing near it. Scene shifts to Brooklyn New York, where Lindbergh, now dressed in business suit, and surrounded by a crowd, descends wooden steps to enter an open car. He sits prominently in the back of the car, accompanied by Raymond Orteig and officials. Mounted police escort the car. View from rear as motorcade drives along a festooned Brooklyn street with a "Welcome Lindy" banner stretched across the road. Motorcycle police escort the cars. Spectators crowd the sidewalks. The motorcade continues through leafy boulevards and open highways. Everywhere enthusiastic crowds line the way. American flags decorate the lead car. A group of Boy Scouts with massed American flags lines one side of the highway. Crowds, waving American flags, teeter on the edge of the sidewalks along a commercial section of town. View from a high location overlooking Prospect Park in Brooklyn, where people throng the sidewalks and park paths. Camera pans across the park. A motorcade (now grown to include numerous cars) circles to enter at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to the park. A slate reads: At Knights of Columbus Building for a luncheon in his honor." Then the motorcade stops at a building festooned with patriotic bunting and a banner reading: "U.S. Council 126 K of C." Later, Lindbergh enters the open car again with Raymond Orteig and they leave. Next, at the Brevoort Hotel (owned by Mr. Orgteig) an elaborate check for twenty five thousand dollars is shown. It is dated June 17, 1927 and signed by Raymond Orteig. Lindbergh and Orteig shake hands and chat amicably while attempting to pose for a photograph. Glimpse of U.S. Capitol building overlaid by a "Welcome Lindy" sign. Closeup of Lindbergh superimposed on top of that along with a waving American flag.
President Truman's limousine arrives at the Union Station in Washington, DC, United States. U.S. President Harry Truman participates in an award ceremony of USO (United Service Organizations). A banner reads 'USO' . President Harry Truman presents awards an Army Sergeant and a Wave. The award recipients lead others in taking refreshments from a long table set up in the portico of the Union Station. A woman wearing armband reading 'USO' helps serve the guests. A sailor, a woman Marine, and a soldier, sit on a sofa and read magazines in the USO room of the Union Station. Three soldiers sit on a sofa and enjoy their refreshments.
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