German hostages at the Hotel Lago Di Braies-Brai near Dobbiaco, Italy. German Pastor Martin Niemöller (or Niemoller) with soldiers on the snow covered hotel porch. He leans against the balustrade smoking a pipe. Snow and trees in the background. General Holder, former Chief of Staff of the German Army sitting in a chair looks out of hotel window. German hostages, liberated by the U.S. Fifth Army from the Hotel, walk around in the snow on hotel grounds. Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, shows his number which was worn at all times and the cross sewed on his jacket back. French politician Andre Leon Blum, German businessman Fritz Thyssen, President of the Reichsbank Hjalmar Schact, Austrian politician Kurt Schuschnigg and Lt. Colonel Stevens chat with 88th Division soldiers. Military vehicles on the street. (World War II period).
Marseilles: View of the French port. British, French and American Naval officers examine German demolition of the port town. Officers survey unfinished U-Boat pens. Toulon: Destroyed German ships in the harbor. Bologne: German coastal guns in ruins. Destroyed artillery. Le Havre: Destroyed buildings and ruins in the town. Unfinished German U-Boat pens. Destroyed artillery. Brest: Destroyed buildings and ruins. German soldiers wave a white flag of surrender on September 18, 1944. U.S, Army Major General. W.M. Robertson , 2nd Infantry Division discusses the surrender with German Colonel E. Pietzonka of the 7th German Parachute Regiment. German soldiers assemble in the main square of the city during the surrender operation.
August 1944: Liberation ceremony by the Mayor of Rennes in France. The Mayor, Allied officers and other city officials on a balcony. The U.S. and French flag hung from the balcony. People of the city gathered below to celebrate the liberation. French patriots round up collaborationists. Collaborationist men and women with torn clothes and painted faces paraded through the streets. An elderly man and woman with the French flag. (World War II period).
Counting of votes after the 82nd Congress Elections. Men and women calculate the results. An Election Commissioner impounds and rechecks the voting machines. Two men seen inspecting voting machines. New York Republican candidate W Kingsland Macy smokes a pipe. View of New York Democratic candidate Ernest Greenwood. Newspaper headlines about Governor Democrat G Williams' win against Harry Kelly. Williams shakes hands with a supporter. Exterior of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. The 82nd Congress in session. View of senate chamber as narrator describes near even Democratic and Republican split in the Senate. Former Governor of New York Democrat Herbert Lehmen returns to the Senate. Closeup view of Lehman. View of the Congress House of Representatives in session. Additional exterior views of the Capitol dome and the Capitol building in Washington DC.
United States F-86 Sabre fighter jets down Soviet MiG 15 aircraft in Korean War aerial dogfight. U.S. and Soviet planes in flight. Aerial view of ground below. Sabre fires machine gun. A Sabre blasts a Mig in flight. The Mig in flames descends to the ground. Another Mig is hit and downed.
The first successful model Ornithopter aircraft takes flight in Seattle. The Ornithopter in flight at a Seattle park. Children watch as it flies. U.S. Army Captain William Sears with his invention. He shows the children the Ornithopter. The Ornithopter flies again by means of rubber-band powered flappers.
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