Strange flying scooters and automobiles go through their paces at Princeton in New Jersey. The hover craft automobiles are developed for the U.S. Army. Men seated at controls of the automobiles, seen in flight along only a few inches of the ground. The automobiles poised on drafts of air from huge fans.
Features notables in early aviation history. Early aviation pioneers attend the first International Aviation Meet held at Rheims. An early model French aircraft taxis. Colonel Courzi seated in the cockpit of an early model aircraft. Plane in flight. Wilbur Wright gives a flying demonstration at International meeting. Louis Paulhan gives a demonstration of flight on his aircraft. Two aircraft fly around pylon. One piloted by Glenn Curtiss. Men sit in a car. Hubert Latham flies an aircraft. Louis Breguet crashes. People rush to the crash scene and cameramen take photographs. Louis Breguet standing near a car. Louis Bleriot in an airplane on the airfield. Louis Blériot looks out from the cockpit. Henri Farman in an aircraft. People observe air show.
Air-Sea rescue by PBM Mariner aircraft. PBM planes in flight. PBM Mariner aircraft flied low near the water surface. Several vessels underway. Mountains in the background.
Air-Sea rescue by PBM Mariner aircraft. PBM planes land among ships lying off island. Smoke rises from an explosion on the beach. Men paddle in life raft. Line is thrown to him from PBM. Life raft pulled to PBM tail. Aviator in rubber life raft towed alongside PBM. The aviator climbs into plane head first. Empty life boat drifts freely. PBM taxis for take off. Tail of an aircraft. PMB towed to the stern of a vessel. Men watch aboard. Aviator floats in a rubber life raft. Rescued aviators and enlisted men in aircraft rearm boat. Officer interviews enlisted survivor and takes notes. Rearming boat gets underway and leaves.
July 10, 1943, U.S. invades Sicily in Italy. Fleet of warships underway. Navy bombardment of Sicily. Coast Guardsman observes through binoculars. Coast Guardsmen carry troops and supplies in LCVPs (Higgins Boats). LST-356 approaching Blue Beach 2, in the "Cent" area on July 10, 1943, loaded with tanks and other vehicles. A beach master signals with semaphore flags. Troops landing from assault boats. Concentrated enemy air attacks destroy U.S. boats and ships. Enemy aircraft in flight. U.S. troops firing. A map shows Italy. September 9, 1943, amphibious assault on Anzio, Italy. Naval bombardment, followed by troop assault on the beaches.
A uniformed Berlin Policeman helps a young girl cross the busy street. A woman takes direction from the policeman. Pedestrians stand on sides of the roads. Men, work at a construction site in the roadway. An electric trolley car (tram) passes in the background and a horse-drawn cart passes in foreground. Two construction workers perch precariously as they work on steel framework of a tall building high above the street. Elevated train passes through a building as truck passes underneath on the street. View of elevated train from a building, high above. Crowded open air market with vendors, wagons, trucks, horse-drawn wagons. A woman vendor wraps fresh fish in newspaper for woman customer. Pair of horses in traces eat together from feed trough. Two men on horse-drawn wagon carrying cargo of beer barrels. Production line in beer factory. Workers seal barrels of beer. Machine fills beer bottles.
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