British aviation developments after World War II. A twin-jet English Electric Canberra takes off from Warton Aerodrome, Lancashire, England. The English Electric Canberra A.1 prototype (VN799) in flight. The first Canberra B.2 prototype (VX165) flies over the airfield. Crowds of British civilian men and women watch the first Canberra B.2 prototype in flight. The first Canberra B.2 prototype performs maneuvers.
International Workers' Day (also known as Labor Day or “May Day”) parade in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province (Canton, Kwangtung Province) China. Chinese workers raise their copies of the "Little Red Book" (“Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung”) by Chairman Mao Zedong. Boys cheering while they hold a Maoist banner. Guangdong Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee Secretary Huang Yongsheng delivers a speech to the crowd. Chinese proletariat men and women listen to Huang Yongsheng’s speech. Face of a Chinese woman watching May Day speech. Crowds holding Cultural Revolution propaganda banners and portraits of Mao Zedong during the celebration. Chinese workers clapping after Huang Yongsheng’s speech. Chinese women hold up their copies of the “Little Red Book”. Chinese girls and women with Cultural Revolution posters of Mao Zedong listens to Huang Yongsheng’s May Day speech. People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers in the crowd. An elderly CCP official reads his speech. Chinese students, probably Red Guards, deliver May Day speeches to the crowd. Crowds of Chinese workers cheering.
Wrecked British ships in the English Channel after the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II. Flag of Nazi Germany at Dunkirk Beach. Corpses in water as waves wash onto beach.
Two men load a box bearing an ERP (European Recovery Program) sticker into a railroad car in Italy post World War II. Ship workers unload United States Marshall Plan shipment from Italian ship SS Taurinia (ex Vilarosa). An Italian crane operator with close view of crane engine as bales of cotton emerge from ship's hold. Train pulled by FS Class 835 Italian State Railway steam locomotive leaves harbor as people watch from the platform. Locomotive train move across the Italian countryside. A pair of guards open a glove factory gate. Sign in abandoned glove factory gate reads “Proibito Entrare” (“Entrance forbidden”). View of a WALLY padlock. Train with Marshall Plan ERP label enters the factory. Italian factory workers return to work. Factory workers sweeping near machines.
Bombs dropping through cloud cover. Aerial view of Foggia, Italy as seen from Consolidated B-24 D Liberator “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” of the 9th Air Force, 98th Bomb Group, and 343rd Bomb Squadron during World War II. Clouds and smoke from bomb sites partially obscure view of Foggia and surrounding areas. Pillars of black smoke rises from a bombarded air base in Foggia. Consolidated B-24 Liberator with nose art depicting Disney’s Snow White dwarf character “Happy” in flight over Foggia.
Five Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (NATO reporting name: Farmer) fighters in formation performing aerobatics during the 1962 Soviet Aviation Day Display at Tushino Airfield (present day Otkrytie Bank Arena, Volokolamskoye Shosse, 69, Moscow, Russia, 125424) near Moscow, Soviet Union. Crowds of Soviet onlookers looking skyward to watch the airshow. Military officials and civilians watching the airshow from a balcony. MiG-19 fighters perform maneuvers. Veiw of Soviet MiG-19 aircraft pilot in cockpit during aerial flight. Crowds gathered at Air traffic control tower.
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