A film titled 'Fighter kills'. Strafing of trains, railroad yards, tug and barges in canals by United States Army Air Forces fighter planes during World War 2. Truck convoys, freight cars and enemy aircraft are attacked.
Gun camera footage from U.S. Army Air Forces fighter planes shows numerous German aircraft being shot down during World War 2. Also shown are German aircraft being destroyed on the ground and all manner of conveyances being destroyed by strafing along lines of communication.
A film titled 'Fighter kills'. Gun camera footage showing strafing of German planes; trucks; trains; and lines of communication, by United States Army Air Forces fighter planes during World War 2.
A film titled 'What happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City '. Pedestrians walking on a thoroughfare. Horse drawn carriages on the street. A young man escorts a woman along the sidewalk and walks her over a sidewalk grating from which a gust of air blows her skirts up. She laughs and clutches her skirts.
In September, 1959, United States President Dwight Eisenhower arrives in Berlin, aboard a Boeing VC-137B aircraft (Air Force One). He is greeted by German President Konrad Adenauer. An honor guard of German soldiers salute him. President Eisenhower speaks at the airport and then stands in an open car with motorcade through streets of Berlin. Germans hold up a banner reading: "70 000 000 Germans rely on you." A replica of the American Liberty Bell rings, in the Town Hall of Schöneberg, Germany, as two children watch from below, and one holds her ears. A woman is interviewed, by an American soldier, for the Forces radio Network, about the meaning of the freedom bell to her. Huge crowd gathered in a stadium to celebrate "Berlin Bleibt Frei" (Berlin remains free). Elements of the U.S. Seventh Army on parade. A young German boy stops on a cobblestone street to look and listen to the Freedom Bell ringing from the Town Hall in Schöneberg. He runs and catches up with his mother.
United States President Harry Truman awards Collier Trophy for air safety to Aeronautics Engineer Lewis Rodert. Both men shake hands. Rodert is recognized for his work in developing a heat method for preventing the icing of aircraft (de-icing method).
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