The French Grand Prix on the Rouen-Les-Essarts track in Rouen, France. Aerial view of the city. British Formula One racing driver Norman Graham Hill stands with another person. Australian driver Jack Brabham gets ready. Formula One driver Jim Clark Scottish in a racing car. Racing cars driven on the track. Austrian Karl Jochen Rindt wins the race. Cameramen in the foreground. The award is presented by a woman.
Demonstration of flying given by Wilbur Wright in Le Mans, France. A horse pulls the Wright brother's aircraft across open field. Spectators stand including various high officials in the French government. Mechanics prepare the aircraft for launching. Catapult device being erected on field. Wright brothers aircraft being placed on the launching rail. Spectators on stand. Men pull the catapult device for dropping of weight. Wright brother's aircraft being launched. The aircraft in flight.
First public demonstration flight of the Wright Brothers in Le Mans France in 1908 as seen in a 1928 commemoration film. Mechanics rotate the propellers of the aircraft for engine start. Orville Wright sitting in the cockpit with a person. The aircraft is launched by means of a catapult. The Wright aircraft flies low over a field.
D-Day Invasion of St. Marcouf, France during World War II. Soldiers of U.S. 82nd Airborne Division move into the wrecked town of St. Marcouf. They pass ruins and meet several French civilians on a road. A soldier smokes a cigarette in the background. Damaged buildings. The soldiers walk on rubble. 82nd Airborne Division soldiers pass a building with a sign 'St. Marcouf'. A damaged building in the town. Some soldiers seated and a few standing on a street. A U.S. soldier speaks with French children. A close up of a young French girl.
D-Day Invasion of St. Marcouf, France during World War II. Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division round up and interrogate German prisoners.Opening scene shows U.S. 101st Airborne Division Paratroopers of the 506th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment) with Ace of Spades stenciled on their helmets. They apprehend German soldiers surrendering in midst of wooded area. A wounded German soldier is seen conversing with a U.S. trooper. He reaches out a bandaged right hand towards a Lieutenant. Another German soldier raises his hands as he surrenders. (Slate erroneously identifies 82nd Airborne.) Next, U.S. troopers are seen riding captured German Panzer I Ausf.A Sd.Ktz.101 tanks. One is pulling a field piece trooper riding on the barrel. . Ensuing sequence clearly shows Screaming Eagle shoulder patches on U.S. troopers of the 502nd PIR (hearts stenciled on their helmets) as they process German prisoners of war. Surrendered German military equipment, helmets and such, piled up on the ground.
D-Day Invasion of St. Marcouf, France during World War II. The burial of a dead German soldier. Paratroopers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division advance across a grassy field. Soldiers of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division file past the paratroopers. A German tracked motorcycle parked on pavement, surrounded by 101st Airborne Paratroopers, some of whom stand in a group and hold a captured Nazi flag.
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