Charles A. Lindbergh posing in front of his airplane, "The Spirit of St. Louis." The Spirit of St. Louis landing at an airfield in the United States. People gathered around the Spirit of St. Louis, with its engine running.Lindbergh climbing aboard his airplane at Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927, and taking off on his historic solo transatlantic flight to Paris. View of Lindbergh climbing steeply in the Spirit of St. Louis during his flight from Paris to Brussels, in 1927, Nightime scenes of crowds running to see Lindbergh upon his arrival at Le Bourget airfield in Paris on May 21, 1927. French President Gaston Doumergue stands with Lindbergh on a balcony, where they wave the French tricolor. They converse, framed by American flags (one of which, almost falls from the balcony). Lindbergh holds and waves both the American flag and the French tricolor. The French President presents the Honor Legion Medal to Charles Lindbergh. Tug boats and fire boats fill New York Harbor to welcome Charles A. Lindbergh upon his arrival in that city. New York fetes Lindbergh with tickertape parade.
United States 31st Infantry Regiment is seen performing drills in Manila, Philippines prior to U.S. entry into World War II. Troops of the 31st Infantry Regiment march through Fort Santiago (HXVC+M5V, Intramuros, Manila, 1002 Metro Manila). Troops engaged in Infantry drills, marches, and bayonet practice. Walled city of Manila in the background, including views of San Juan de Dios Chapel dome (HXRH+R52, Real St, Intramuros, Manila, 1002 Metro Manila), Puerta del Parian, and San Francisco Church.
Japanese occupation in Philippines during World War II. Sign reads 'Open City'. Japanese soldiers walk on a street. People milling around. Traffic passes along a road.
Documentary film titled 'The Spanish Earth' depicts drought conditions in rural Spain. Two Spanish farmers feeling the dry earth, breaking it in their hands. Men with mules moving in foreground, with miles of parched farmland and a city in background. Fields with what appears to be a line of clay chimney-like structures across the foothills, each rising about 10 feet from the ground. View of the village of Fuentiduena with two of these structures in the foreground. Smoke coming from one on a hillside. (Note: Narrator is Ernest Hemingway.)
;Allied Operation Husky in World War 2. British 8th Army advances forward in Sicily during World War II. British transports and warships along a coastline as bombs from enemy airplanes drop in water around them. British troops march along a road. A ship at an anchor in the background. White flags flutter from the balconies of Italian homes. British soldiers drink wine from a pitcher. A soldier hands a chocolate to a woman holding a small baby. U.S. troops ride into the town on donkey carts. Several men walk along with the carts. British armored units drive through the city. Captured enemy food is distributed among Sicilian peasants. British Army General Bernard Montgomery in an open motor car drives past British troops and through the town. A group of Italian soldiers wave white clothes to surrender to British soldiers. Axis prisoners march through the streets of Syracuse. Captured and wrecked enemy equipment. People cheer as British trucks loaded with soldiers drive into Francofonte, Italy. Axis prisoners lined up on a highway follow a British truck. German prisoners debark from a prison ship in England. The prisoners and insignias in view. (including insignia of the Hermann Göring Division)
German occupation of Denmark and Norway (Operation Weserubung) in the second World War (WW2). A German naval task force underway at sea. Crew assembled on deck of the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, are ordered to their duty stations. As first step in the operation, German forces invade Denmark. A line of German troop ships tied up at port in Copenhagen, Denmark. German troops disembark and proceed into the city.
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