Activities of United States Military Police in Saigon, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Military Policemen on guard at the U.S. Embassy. They check the cars entering the embassy grounds. Joint MP patrol of the US, New Zealand, Australia and South Vietnam leave Provost Marshal headquarters, Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) and tour downtown streets.
American aviator Colonel Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris. Colonel Lindbergh returns to the United States after completing his flight on June 11. A large crowd gathers in Washington D.C. to greet him. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge arrives at the ceremony to welcome him. President arrives at the podium. Crowd applauding. He addresses the people and speaks about the flight of the aviator. He talks about the history of airplanes and their flight. He states that the airplanes were first used for the purpose of transportation of passengers and for national defense. They had a limited flying radius in the beginning. But now the area has been extended. He states about the historic flights of many U.S. Navy personnels. Then he talks about another historic flight of Lindbergh and bestows the Distinguished Flying Cross upon him. People cheer and applaud as he makes the announcement. Lindbergh arrives at the podium and being greeted by the cheering crowd.
Animated map shows the front line of battle, between Republican and Nationalist forces, curving North from Aranjuez, towards Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. View from hilltop of shells exploding in distance. Closeup of Republican trenches and soldiers taking doors from a town, to reinforce them. The troops installing the doors in the sides of the trenches. Troops carrying supplies and gathering together for a meal behind a protecting hill. Soldiers eating and reading posted information and sharing newspapers inside their fortified positions. A soldier climbs steps into a truck equipped as a traveling barber shop, where he gets a shave and haircut. The mobile barbershop moves on to another location. A camouflaged military vehicle tows a huge loudspeaker out the gates of of a Republican army post. It drives to the front lines, where it broadcasts music for the Republican army troops. View inside the control trailer where the operator places a vinyl record album on a phonograph player. Sound of the broadcast transmitted in the area. Troops in trenches listening as they man their positions and maintain their weapons. An instructor reviews information about their weapons with a group of soldiers, who had little prior experience with firearms. These new recruits are being taught how to disassemble and reassemble a rifle.
U.S. Coast Guard (CG) enlisted men engaged in vessel maintenance during World War 2. Men wearing jeans use a scraper, a chipping hammer, and an electric wire wheel to prepare the deck for new paint on the stern of a Landing Ship Tank (LST). Another enlisted man welds a cleat to the deck of the LST while underway.
Adolf Hitler at opening of the International Auto Show in Berlin on 20 February 1937. He strolls along a street, past a military honor guard. He is accompanied by several Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung). Hitler walks up to and shakes hands with members of a German motorcycle racing team, standing next to their machines. He then greets and shakes hands with three racing car drivers standing near their cars (Mercedes Silver Arrows). View of crowd enthusiastically greeting Hitler. Next, the racing cars drive along the street, followed by Hitler and companions in his Mercedes-Benz W150 770 Paradewagenen. The rest of his entourage follows in open staff cars. Glimpse of Military honor guard presenting arms in salute. View of the motorcade driving toward the camera, along the Unter den Linden, with the Brandenburg Gate in the background. Spectators line the sidewalks. The motorcade passes a long line of German military motorcyclists standing next to their machines. The motorcade stops there where Hitler steps from the lead car and crosses the street to enters the building housing the Auto Show, which is guarded by black uniformed SS troops standing along the sidewalk. Images of the Berlin 1937 Auto Show illustrated Posters advertising the "Internationale Automobil und Motorrad Ausstellung" (International automobile and motorcycle exhibition). Poster shows stylized artistic drawings of cars and sketch of the Brandenburg Gate. Inside the building a stage is lined with a group of trumpeters in fancy regalia, playing a fanfare. Nazi swastika banners are massed in the back of the stage. From a podium on stage Hitler delivers a short address to open the event, in which he reiterates his desire to have a low-price car produced for the ordinary people of Germany. Closeup of Joseph Goebbels with arms folded, in the audience. View of men in fancy regalia holding Nazi swastika banners. Next, Goebbels is seen at the podium, acting as a cheer leader for the National Socialistic Party (Nazi Party), the German nation, and its leader, Adolf Hitler. He leads the audience in chanting "Zieg Heil." three times. Curtains part revealing automobiles on display. Closeup of the front of a Daimler Benz car. Adolf Hitler leads others entering the exhibit floor, accompanied by executives of the automotive industry. Goebbels is seen at his side, next to Dr. H.C. Wilhelm Kissel, who became the first chairman of the Board of Daimler-Benz AG in 1937. Closeup of Hitler reaching out to a car, as Kissel stands near, behind him. Hitler and Kissel converse and Hitler embraces him and expresses his enthusiasm. Again Hitler reaches out to the car, commenting as he does. View of the exhibit floor filled with cars and people. Closeup of Hitler conversing with civilian auto executives as he stands next to a streamlined Adler 2,5 Liter Type 10 Cabriolet automobile. Closeup of the chrome embellished hood and front bumper of the Adler car. Hitler closely examining the tread of an auto tire. Closeup of transparent cutaway showing inside of a car hood. Hitler standing on the opposite side of the car. Hitler stands with several men discussing a DKW-Union automobile with its side hood panels raised. Men discussing the new Opel Admiral sedan introduced at this auto show. (The car was powered by a newly developed 3,626 cc straight-six engine.) Hitler with others, looking under the hood at the engine. Sketch of a German artificial rubber tire factory. View of materials used in tire manufacture. Closeups of tires. BMW R6 motorcycle and other motorcycles. Remainder of film devoted to engines, and many cars made by DKW-Union.
War damage in London, England during World War II after a German blitz attack. People walking on a street. A sign board near a building reads: 'Emergency Public Telephones, Telegrams accepted'. People enter and leave the building. Banner over rubble of a business, advertises the new location for "Kendal and Dent". The city of London shows signs such as 'Carrying On' and other such signs. Signs read : 'Business as usual' on cards showing change of address. Telegraph boys walk about with signs 'Telegrams Accepted', all conveying the "Carry On" attitude in Britain during World War 2.
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