United States Thunderstreak jet fighters delivered to Netherlands. The Thunderstreak jet fighters replace the obsolete jets of Netherlands Air Force. The Thunderstreak jet fighters in flight. Dutch pilots look up at the formation of the Thunderstreak jet fighters.
German troops fight the Allied forces in the Netherlands during World War 2. Animated map locates Arnhem and Nijmegen in the Netherlands. German troops fire at British parachutists and gliders as they descend from their transport aircraft. Afterwards they pursue and engage those who made it safely to the ground. Scattered Allied equipment, dead bodies and downed gliders. Burning gliders. Allied aircraft shot down and crashing. British prisoners of war seated in a group in a meadow.
Excerpt from "The Netherlands -- A Country Claimed from the Sea." Map of Europe outlines the Netherlands including North and South Holland. Windmill near a water canal. Dutch man and children in native costumes. A busy city street. Dutch men, women, and teenagers on bicycles along with various cars and road traffic passing by. Vehicular traffic. View of a canal. A large steam ship passes under a canal bridge and after passing under, it erects its main smoke stack that had been pulled down or retracted to clear under the bridge.
Farms, dikes, and canals in the Netherlands. View of a dike in a Dutch village. An animated map shows flow of Rhine River and its connected smaller rivers in the Netherlands. A windmill in a farm. View of farmlands. Holstein Friesian cattle and sheep graze in farm.
Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands visits Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies for a month. Her mother Queen Juliana bids farewell to Princess Beatrix. Princess Beatrix boards a KLM Douglas DC-6 “Prinses Marijke” (PJ-DPM). A huge crowd welcomes Princess Beatrix on the Curaçao International Airport (known at the time as “Dr. Albert Plesman airport”). Princess Beatrix climbs down a KLM airstair. The Governor of the Netherlands Antilles and other leaders welcome her on the airport. Princess Beatrix and Dutch Antilles leaders leave in an open car. Princess Beatrix waves to crowd gathered to welcome her.
Project Cirrus, in the Netherlands, 1951. Film is devoted to views of Norwegian air crews and their de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft, posing where they are encamped at an airfield in the Netherlands. Camera pans over parked aircraft an shows closeup of markings of Norwegian Squadron 336 on aircraft fuselage. A pilot poses, looking skyward, in opened cockpit of his plane. He wears a helmet with goggles raised atop it and his oxygen mask dangling below it. Closeup of Norwegian airman with "Norway" displayed on his left shoulder patch. He wears glasses and looks skyward. White clouds fill the sky in the background throughout the film. Two Norwegian fliers in flight suits pose looking away from the camera (in profiles). A vampire jet begins a takeoff roll as the film ends.