Baroness de la Rouche,world's first woman flier, climbing down from an airplane. Attendants meet her and place a coat around her shoulders.
Aviation pioneer, Henri Farman, preparing to compete for the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize, by flying a closed one-kilometer course in one minute. He and his ground crew are seen going over his airplane carefully. The box-like tail section of his Voisin airplane, has the words: Henri Farmanni, displayed on it. Farman takes off in his airplane.
General Alfred M. Gruenther stands with other top NATO officers as he begins his assignment as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). Others seen include U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad; British Field Marshal Montgomery; and French Marshal Juin. Flags are lowered and then all NATO country flags are raised. General Gruenther speaks briefly from the podium. Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) emblem is seen on shoulder of a soldier. General Gruenther is congratulated by several of the other senior NATO officers.
High altitude aerial reconnaissance view of a German area during World War I, taken from some kind of (unseen) aircraft. Trenches and or fences on fields below.
A French railroad gun captured by the Germans during World War 1. German soldiers stand near a damaged French railway gun. "Against the Big Bertha" is written on the gun, in French. Two soldiers sit on the gun barrel. Other soldiers stand on the railway gun and pose for the movie camera. (This is a German film with English caption describing the gun as one of the heavy rail guns intended to silence our long range guns firing on Paris.)
Second Battle of the Somme in World War 1.German prisoners of war assembled in fenced areas of a field. British Mark V tank in background. Allied troops move a small artillery piece down from peak of a hill. American soldiers carrying towels as they enter a building to bathe, in a rear area camp.Some of them are seen inspecting their clothing for pests before putting it back on. Others are rewrapping their leggings and putting on boots.Troops marching up a hill. Others coming through a gate engraved with name: "Ecole de Preservation." They march over a bridge from the gate. A young soldier being interviewed.He wears a ribbon on his uniform for a decoration he may have just received. He salutes an officer who stops to talk and shake hands with him.
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