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Early aviators winning different air races and early French aircraft
People attend the Circuit de L' Quest. Alfred LeBlanc is the winner of the race. Leblanc lands aircraft and personnel run out to meet him. LeBlanc congratulated. Jules Vedrines is the winner of the Paris-Madrid race. Jules Vedrines lands at San Sebastian completing the second of three legs in the race to Madrid in 1911. Jules Vedrines alights the plane. View of Andre Beaumont (really Jean Louis Conneau but better known as André Beaumont), winner of the first European Circuit Air race in 1911. André Beaumont smiles from the cockpit of his airplane. Female aviator (aviatrix) Helene Dutrieu (Hélène Dutrieu) seated in cockpit of a Santos-Dumont designed Demoiselle. View of the first multi-passenger aircraft built, the Albessard tandem monoplane.
Two open buses carry American Veterans of World War I on postwar visit to France.
American veterans of World War 1 return to Paris not long after the war's end. They fill two open buses, each containing a cinematographer with camera, recording the events. A few women are included in the groups. They drive down the Boulevard Champs Elysees. Arc de Triomphe seen behind them.
United States Coast Guard in Greenland during World War II
Overseas activities of U.S. Coast Guard in World War 2. View from ship bow in heavy North Atlantic seas. A map shows Greenland. U.S. Coast Guard Coast Guard Cutter in Greenland waters with mountains and snow behind. U.S. Coast Guard officers conferring with Danish Naval officer. James K. Penfield, first United States consul in Greenland, being brought ashore by U.S. Coast Guard officers. Coast Guardsmen supplying food and supplies to natives of Greenland. Views of Greenland's Cryolite mine with men rappelling down its sides. Coast Guardsmen, released from U.S. service, and employed as armed guards, by the Government of Greenland, are seen protecting the Cryolite mine. Topographic survey of Greenland being conducted by Coast Guard personnel. Coast Guard two-place Bi-wing float plane is seen at rest in harbor and then later taking off.. U.S. Coast Guardsmen install, and test fire,a 3 inch gun, to protect a Greenland harbor. Coast guardsmen capture and occupy radio stations planted by Germans in Greenland. Newspaper from December 14,1944 describes how three German Arctic expeditions were broken up by the U.S. Coast Guard. A ship is torpedoed and burns in convoy of ships in North Atlantic Captain of another ship observes through binoculars. Several crew members are rescued from a raft. Coast Guard Cutter fires depth charges. Ships fire deck guns and antiaircraft guns against enemy. Destroyer Escort Savage (DE-386) at sea, manned by U.S. Coast Guard crew.. Admiral Russell R. Waesche decorates Coast Guardsmen. Coast Guard Cutter "Hamilton", the first American warship torpedoed in the Atlantic in WWII. Commandant Russell Waesche gives a statement in Washington D.C.
Huge crowd gathered for Armistice Day on the streets of Paris, celebrating the end of World War I
Armistice Day celebration in Paris. Soldiers, women and others pose. One young woman wears a soldiers cap. Huge crowd gathered on either side of road. The streets are crowded with people who do a snake dance in the Avenue de l'Opera. Several men and women stand in a group on stairs. A woman carries flags. People cheer. Automobiles, carrying people on their roofs, pass through the street. Cars, horse drawn wagon and other automobiles on the street. World War 1 Allied soldiers pose on a step with a woman holding Crossed British and French flags. They remove their hats and wave. Celebrants ride on running boards of cars carrying flags. A group of women marches with arms linked together, shouting and smiling. Every kind of vehicle joins in the moving celebration and crowds swarm about them on the happy occasion.
People celebrate Armistice Day ending World War I in the streets of Paris. Veteran in wheel chair.
Armistice Day celebration in Paris, marking the end of World War 1. Two women raised on shoulders of American soldiers, wave American flags. Other people wave United States flags. Automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles, on Avenue des Champs Elysees in the background. French soldier plays concertina. American soldier salutes a French woman, in a fur coat, who presents him a large bouquet of flowers. War veterans parade carrying flags of various Allied Nations.One veteran is in a wheel chair and plays a bugle.. An African American French Colonial soldier stands next to the French veteran in the wheel chair and plays his bugle.Passersby give the wheelchair veteran sprigs of flowers which he places in a bunch on his uniform pocket. Parade on the streets. Several French soldiers carry an American soldier on their shoulders. He waves an American flag. Soldiers stand with a French woman, who cheers and places a bunch of flowers on the uniform of one of the soldiers.
Paris wildly celebrates Armistice Day ending World War I. Merrymaking by all.
Armistice Day celebration in Paris at end of World War 1. Men and women hold hands and snake dance at Place de la Concorde. Egyptian Obelisk in background. Army truck, filled with celebrating soldiers, drives down the street, with well-dressed civilian men running behind. French troops march carrying rifles, as onlookers crowd the sidewalks and street. Group of American soldiers singing, behind Allied officer who smokes cigarette, and has arm around shoulder of small boy (his son?) who holds folded umbrella. He kisses the boy on the cheek. Two Parisian gentlemen drink beer and smoke cigarettes, at outdoor table of cafe. Civilians crowd around two French African Colonial soldiers. One holds a pipe. The other picks up a wine bottle and they both drink directly from the bottle. Team of six horses pulls wagon filled with merrymaking soldiers. . Young Parisian women let soldiers in truck reach down to kiss them.
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