British Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor twin jet aircraft taking off and landing at an airfield in Britain, in June, 1945, right after the end of World War II in Europe. Several American soldiers sit on grass beside the runway and watch. One takes pictures. The clip shows a Meteor, so wrong clip!
End of World War Two in Europe. A C-47 takes off. Numerous United States Army Air Force aircraft fly in skies over Germany, including: P51s, P-38s, P-47s, and A-26s. A lamppost in the foreground. U.S. aircraft fly over bomb damaged buildings. Damage around an old bridge in Rogensburg.
Aerial view from airplane flying low over a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California, shows cars and people below, gathered around a parked Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft that landed there on July 14, 1937, after a nonstop flight over the North Pole, from Moscow, Russia. Closeup of local people standing in roped off area, looking at the airplane. Scene changes to Soviet pilot, Mikhail Gromov; Co-pilot, Sergei Danilin, and Navigator, Andrei Yumashev, meeting the Press, 20 miles away, on veranda at March Army Air Field Officers Club. Back at the landing site, local people walk under the aircraft wings and examine it closely. Letters "25ND25" are stenciled under the left wing. Back at March Field, American Air Corps officers shake hands with the Soviet flyers.
A rally by steel strikers in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Fifteen thousand members of the United Mine Workers participate in a labor rally to voice their sympathy for CIO (Committee for Industrial Organization) steel workers engaged in a protracted strike. Vehicles drive past on a street amongst security. A huge crowd gathered to watch the rally during a heavy rain. An official speaks into a microphone from under an umbrella. People cover their heads with plastic sheets.
The High Hat Competition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Men and women wearing headgears of unique designs. A woman with a fruit basket hat. A man lights his cigarette from a candle on a woman's hat. The woman wearing a rock garden hat with a fountain wins the High Hat Competition.
Skiing Tri State Meet in Dubuque, Iowa. Participants from various places go on tricky slides to win the championship. Some of the participants fall during the first jump from a high angle. A crowd watches the skiing championship.
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