The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria arrives in a horse drawn carriage. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany with entourage. The German Emperor reviews German troops on parade. A newspaper headline "Kaiser defies Czar. Hands off or War!'. Nicholas II of Russia walks down steps followed by his wife and two daughters. People stand on steps and salute. The Czar and family are seated in an open carriage. Russian Soldiers parade. Another headline, 'France enters War'. French Cavalry and troops parade in open fields. A newspaper headline 'England prepares for War, German armies sweep France'. British King George V , in military uniform, and Queen Mary, standing at a window. British troops march and a soldier drives a motorbike.
Launch of Wright plane in North Carolina on 17 December 1903 and in Virginia on 09 September 1908, United States. Wibur Wright places wheels beneath wing on Kill devil hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States. Wright plane takes its first flight after launch. Flight of plane in France. Two men pull props through on the Wright aircraft. Frenchmen stand and watch Wilbur Wright who makes adjustment on aircraft engine. Launching tower at right. Wright plane launches by catapult in France. Civilians and officers attend the air show. Wright plane passes overhead. Flight of Wright plane in United States. Orville Wright and Lieutenant Lahm sits on control section of the plane. Wright plane launches by catapult launch track at Fort Myers in Virginia on 09 September 1908. Plane in flight at Fort Myers. Spectators watch the plane. Army personnel move the Wright plane across open terrain they remove hangar doors from storage building. Army personnel grouped around the Wright aircraft. President Taft stand along the spectators. President Taft walk through spectators.
Public and press eagerly wait outside the League of Nations headquarters (Palace of Nations, Av. de la Paix 14, 1202 Genève, Switzerland) in Geneva to get a glimpse of the delegates leaving the Assembly Hall. Among the delegates leaving the hall include Emile Vanderwelde and Louis de Brouckere of Belgium, Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, Guiseppe Motta of Switzerland, Maharajah of Kapurthala India, Louis Loucheur of France, Aristide Briand, Sir Austen Chamberlain of Great Britain, Victoria Scialoja of Italy, Nintchitch of the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood in Great Britain, Loudon of Netherlands, Jean Paul-Boncour of France, Joseph Beck of Luxembourg, Prince Arfa of Persia, Guetatcheou of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), Mr. Karl von Schubert of Germany.
Da Costa as President of session and Viscount Ishii delivering opening address at meeting of the League of Nations Council at the Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates leaving include Briand and Loucheur & Paul-Bancour (France), Sir (Great Britain), Mr Scialoja first delegate for Italy. In a group Mr Quinones de Leon (Spain) and Mr Benes (Czech) Mr Mello France (Brazil) M Vandervelde (Belgium).
A dramatized film entitled "Beachhead to Berlin" describes preparations for the Allied invasion of France and the drive toward Berlin. Film combines actors and actual footage. Harbor in Greenway England in July, 1944. U.S. Coast Guard Barracks. Coast Guard men playing cards. One on a bunk contemplating. Chaplain's office: Chaplain typing and smoking a pipe. Audio narration of his letter being read, describing how things transpired at the Normandy beaches during the Invasion of France. Then actual footage of wounded being transported on ships after D-Day Normandy invasion. In England, footage of LCIs, LCVPs, Coast Guard cutters, including the Flying Angel Rescue Cutter. All of these ships participating in "dry run" practices for the actual Normandy landing. Coast Guard crews on decks of ships. Infantry loading landing crafts in England for dry runs. Landing craft arriving on English beaches during dry runs. A jeep drives off a landing craft and gets stuck on metal mesh on the beach. A tank is driven off a landing craft. Men maintaining ships. Scraping rust from the deck, painting identifications on ships, repairing rope ladders, and welding. (World War II period).
Hitler and Hermann Goering with representatives of France, Britain and Italy, on September 29, 1938. Hitler and Goering in meeting with Benito Mussolini on occasion of Munich Conference. Hitler and Mussolini converse. Civilians gather on the street outside the Metropol Hotel in Munich. Benito Mussolini, of Italy, seen signing the pact, along with Édouard Daladier of France. Hitler shakes hands with Daladier after the signing. The group around Hitler includes Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Mussolini's son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano.
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