Bombing missions over Europe. A formation of United States B-24 Liberators in flight. They drop bombs over targets. Gunners seated inside the aircraft fire at attacking fighter aircraft. Explosions on ground with smoke rising from them. A group of B-26 Marauders fly in formation. A P51B/C Mustang fighter plane taxis to a stop after landing. The pilot shuts down the engine. As he begins unfastening his shoulder harness, a black and white dog runs out to greet him and stands behind the left wing of the airplane while the pilot gets ready to leave the cockpit. (World War II period).
United States 35th Division troops in Besancon, France during World War II. French civilians look from their balconies. A group of men put an American flag on a wall. A sign board along a road reads 'Besancon'. The troops in trucks and jeeps drive past on a road.
United States 3rd Infantry Division troops in Besancon, France during World War II. Explosions on the streets in Besancon. Troops open a box of TNT(trinitrotoluene). They place the chemical explosive on a wooden platform. The troops clear out the debris on the street. An ambulance drives past. Bulldozers lift heavy metal. An army vehicle parked on a road. An explosion in the background.
Gymnasts practice in Annapolis, Maryland. Members of the United States Naval Academy gymnastics team practice for their meet with the Army. The gymnasts go through a routine of tumblings, cross bar tricks and rope climbing.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the United States. Members of the Ku Klux Klan dressed in white robes and conical hats and masks. They stand with burning torches in hand. Large group of ordinary citizens standing around a tree where two men have been lynched. Ku Klux Klan members stand next to a large burning cross. Stone Mountain, outside Atlanta, Georgia, is seen in the background.
United States President Ronald Reagan in Berlin, Germany. President Reagan addresses members of the Berlin Garrison at Berlin Tempelhof Airport. In his speech, he questions why the Berlin wall exists, and jokes that he will put that question into a bottle and "throw it over the wall." Later, he visits Checkpoint Charlie and then speaks to a crowd of civilians in German at the Schloss Charlottenburg. Officials and the crowd applaud as he proclaims, 'Berlin is still Berlin.' Air Force One lands at Andrews Air Force Base. President Reagan and his wife Nancy disembark from the aircraft. He shakes hands with Vice President George H. W. Bush.
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