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Aviator Charles Lindbergh waves to large crowd from balcony of a building in Paris, France.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh acclaimed by French crowd at night, in Paris, after his solo non stop Trans Atlantic flight. Crowd of Parisians estimated at more than a hundred thousand turn out to greet him at Le Bourget Air Field. Part of the crowd begins to run to an illuminated building where Lindbergh appears on a on a window sill and waves at the crowd. The next day, 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. Charles Lindbergh stands precariously on a window ledge and waves to French crowds.

Date: 1927, May 21
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074468
Charles Lindbergh receives the French 'Cross of Legion of Honor' from President Doumergue.

Charles A Lindbergh receives the French 'Cross of Legion of Honor' at the Élysée Palace (55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France). Lindbergh with French President Gaston Doumergue and U.S. Ambassador to France Myron Herrick. Lindbergh wears the Cross as people surround him.

Date: 1927
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031336
A large crowd gathers to greet aviator Charles Lindbergh in the United States after he returns from Paris, France.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh returns to the United States after a flight to Paris, France. USS Memphis underway at sea with smoke above it. Colonel Lindbergh addresses a crowd. An old type biplane aircraft in flight overhead and a ship underway at sea. USS Memphis on the Potomac River. Aerial view of Washington DC. A U.S. flag flutters on a flag pole. Dignitaries wave from a dock. Lindbergh's mother goes up a gangway to meet him. Lindbergh is accompanied by naval officers. His mother comes down the gangway in the background. Lindbergh rides an old Pierce Arrow open touring car during a parade. People wave in the foreground. Buildings along street sides. People gather in a large number near the Washington Monument. U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge Jr. awards Lindbergh with the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Date: 1927
Duration: 5 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051052
Charles Lindbergh takes off in Spirit of Louis for the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, France.

Charles Lindbergh poses beside his monoplane, Spirit of Louis at the Roosevelt Airfield in Long Island, New York. He shakes hands with two men. Lindbergh poses with his mother, Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, beside the aircraft. 'Spirit of Louis' clearly visible on the aircraft. A car followed by a truck towing the aircraft backward, passes on road. Men follow. Men inspect the aircraft. Man standing atop engine fills plane with fuel, hands empty jug to another man on ground, and receives another jug from a 3rd man to continue filling. Lindbergh receives help changing into his flight gear and then gets in the cockpit. Plane takes off from the airfield for his famous, Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight to Paris, France. Aerial views of Lindbergh's aircraft from another aircraft, as the expedition begins.

Date: 1927, May 20
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049964
U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T Herrick greets Charles Lindbergh in Paris.

Myron T Herrick, the U.S. Ambassador to France, greets Charles A Lindbergh. Herrick waves an airman's helmet from a balcony as the crowds watch from below. A large crowd awaits Lindbergh's arrival at Herrick's residence. People watch as Lindbergh waves the French flag.

Date: 1927
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031333
Bomb damaged Place de la Concorde and unscathed Champs Elysees, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame in Paris after WWII.

Results of selective strategic bombing by the British Royal and United States Eighth Air Forces in German-occupied Paris and surrounding areas during World War II. September 1944: Pont de Grenelle bridge over the Seine river. Eiffel Tower (Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France) in the background. The Statue of Liberty replica on the Ile aux Cygnes Island (Pont de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France). Shell blast damaged buildings and the Obelisk at Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France). Cyclists and motorists at the Place. Military cars pass the Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) at Champs Elysees. Civilians around the Eiffel Tower. The French flag atop the undamaged tower. Unscathed Notre Dame de Paris (6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France). United States military vehicles in the square before the cathedral. GIs and Parisians crowding in front of the Cathedral. An FFI (French Forces of the Interior) flag at Notre Dame.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021871