The Kapp Putsch in Berlin during the Weimar Republic period. In opening scene about 20 Freikorps soldiers in uniform, are seen gathered around a motor vehicle on which an anti aircraft gun is mounted. One wears a fez. One soldier cranks a handle to raise the elevation of the gun to a high angle. Civilian spectators watch the demonstration. A warship can be seen in water behind the soldiers. Masts of docked sailing vessels are seen close behind them. Freikorps soldiers walk about. A military band plays as some of the soldiers stop and listen to them and pedestrians and motorists pass by. Flag of Prussia flies over top of a building. Helmeted German soldiers with rifles, stand about, casually, at the gates of a building. Soldiers, loaded onto a Benz truck, pass out newspaper flyers to passersby. People milling about in the street. Freikorps soldiers lined up as an officer inspects their rifles. Their insignia is visible on their left coat sleeves. Crowd of spectators stand behind barbed wire barrier surrounding a cleared square in the city secured by Army soldiers in steel helmets. One of them has Freikorps insignia on his left sleeve. Weimar Republic officials, including Philipp Scheidemann stroll across the square and proceed through the crowd outside the barbed wire barrier. Soldiers examine papers of civilian officials trying to enter the restricted area. One of them is allowed access. Army troops and Freikorps soldiers mingle together as civilians pass by them.
Parked P-40 aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group, seen from a vehicle driving along the flight line at Mitchel Field, Garden City, Long Island, New York. They are parked along the sides of hangars. Complete change of scene shows waterfront with P-40s diving in flights of 3 aircraft, each, and firing at target in the water. Next, they are seen flying overhead in a loose formation of 18 aircraft. Another shot of bullets striking water during gunnery practice. Brief glimpse of the 18 aircraft formation (World War II period).
The German invasion of Crete, Greece during World War II. An animated map of Europe shows distances from Crete island to the nearby coasts. A Nazi aircraft in a field. German soldiers look on at a map before invading Crete island. An officer briefs the soldiers. Men in a field as they work on guns and various other equipment. The equipment being loaded into an aircraft. Aircraft lined up in a field. Soldiers prepare to board the planes. A machine gun on a plane. Men board the aircraft. The aircraft are lined up. Smoke rises in the background. The planes in flight. A pilot in a cockpit works on controls. German Stukas in flight over houses and fields. Paratroopers jump from the planes. A Stuka shoots down a British aircraft. Aerial view of the city. A German plane lands in a field. Soldiers wearing life jackets board the flight. The aircraft in flight and a pilot in the cockpit of the plane. German paratroopers drop and land. Soldiers fire from behind the sand bag mounds. Damaged Nazi planes. Bullet hits on aircraft bodies. A plane parked in a field as soldiers walk past it.
Allied Military Government ( AGM ) activities in Germany after World War 2. German civilians lined up as an Allied soldier checks their identification cards. Policemen check cards of civilians. A municipal book labeled "Files" (Akten) is retrieved in the city of Aachen (Stadt Aachen) by U.S. soldiers. Telephone records being recovered. A post office is reestablished. Food bags being loaded onto a truck. A handbook of military government in Germany. Displaced German people unload from a truck. A woman distributes blankets to them. Displaced persons being looked after in a hospital.
Funeral ceremonies of the former United States President Calvin Coolidge in Northampton, Massachusetts. President Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, walking rapidly from a railroad train, accompanied by several officials and military officers who escort them to a waiting automobile. Police controlling the small crowd gathered on local residential sidewalks. The President's car is next seen wending its way through a huge crush of spectators in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts. Several views of the crowds. People massed at the front of the Victorian-era Edwards Congregational Church. The church entrance is adorned with black draping. Official visitors enter the church, with some difficulty due to the crowds. View shifts to inside the church, where the former President's bier sits flanked by a military honor guard of two soldiers. Garlands of flowers cover the casket. Scene shifts, again, to the huge crowds outside, and to pallbearers carrying the casket of former President Coolidge through the crowd, followed by President and Mrs. Hoover and their party. The President and First Lady enter their car. A sign on a pole near their car reads: "Elm St." and points toward Pittsfield. Another reads: "Main St." and points toward Greenfield. The President's car drives away through the crowd. Other officials also leave the church and proceed towards their cars. A stalled motorcade is seen in the center of the city.
A bike race in Boston, Massachusetts. 700 boys ride through the city streets in a 12 mile bike race from Newton to Cambridge in Boston, Massachusetts. Boys ride down the streets as people flock to witness the race. Winners being greeted by a large number of people at the finish line. Winners with trophies.
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