President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic Charles De Gaulle arrives in Washington DC. An aircraft taxis at the Washington Airport. Charles De Gaulle arrives and is greeted by United States Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes. Motorcars arrive at the White House. Honor guards standing at attention. De Gaulle meets U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
U.S. Navy sailors return to civil life in Long Beach, New York after as soldiers and sailors are discharged at end of World War II. The sailors are among the first groups to be released in Long Beach on a point system. Sailors at a separation center stand in line a pay windows to receive paychecks and then attend group ceremonies to receive honorable discharge papers. Workers leave war production plants at the end of a shift. Civilians line up in cities for new jobs in post-war industries. Clothes iron presses, washing machines, and new 1946 Ford cars on assembly lines being built in peacetime economy.
United States Army Air Service (USAAS) 94th Fighter Squadron in France during World War 1. Lt Eddie Rickenbacker seated in the cockpit of a 94th Squadron Nieuport 28c.1fighter #12, as a ground crewman turns a propeller and the engine starts. The squadron's "Hat in Ring" logo is painted on the fuselage. Jump to October 1918 - Captain J. A. Meissner seated in the cockpit of a SPAD S.XIIIc.1 fighter. April 1918: Lieutenant Edwin Green seated in the cockpit of a Nieuport 28c.1 which starts to taxi. Another Nieuport takes off and climbs. Forward to October 1918 - Captain J. A. Meissner seated in the cockpit turns around and points towards the ground. A mock dogfight between two WW I bi-winged aircraft. American Army aviator Captain Eddie Rickenbacker seated in the cockpit of a USAAS Dayton-Wright DH-4 bomber looks back and waves. Aircraft is in flight. Aerial views of the ground showing a coastline below. The aircraft climbing over the clouds. Captain J.A. Meissner seated in the cockpit of an airborne aircraft. Captain Rickenbacker in his SPAD S.XIII fighter #1 in flight over the clouds. (Note: This is a segment of a longer film described in Eddie Rickenbacker's 1919 book, "Fighting the Flying Circus." It was filmed by Capt.Cooper of the U.S. Army Signal Corps from October 18th - 21st, 1918, and contained reenactments of air combat, some of it with a captured German Hanover C.III observation plane.) (WWI,WW1, World War One, First World War)
United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) Curtiss P-1 Hawk Pursuit AT-4 airplane, with smaller engines, used for training pursuit pilots in Michigan, United States. A stationary AT-4 aircraft. Propellers are spinning. USAAS personnel work on the aircraft. The AT-4 taxis on a runway. A pilot in the cockpit.
Commuters driving on Rock Creek Parkway near Washington, DC. (Among the many cars seen is a 1935 DeSoto Airflow automobile, at a traffic circle.) Views of commercial downtown section of Washington, DC, with businesses and offices along streets busy with automobile traffic and pedestrians. Young man and woman on telephone make a date to play tennis at a local park. View of tennis players on numerous park service tennis courts with U.S. Capitol building in background.
View from hains Point, East Potomac Park, of boats in the Washington Channel. Buildings on opposite shore and Washington Monument visible in background. An official boarding a small ferry craft manned by U.S. sailors, on Potomac River shore of the park. Spectators watching the 1935 President's Cup speed boat races from Hains Point. A large yacht is anchored in the Potomac River, as competing boats pass it during the race.(The hydroplane speedboat,"Notre Dame,"powered by a 24-cylinder Duesenberg engine, won the 1935 President's Cup,for owner, Herb Mendelson and driver, Clell Perry.) Equestrians ride horses on park trails,and cross a road,as automobile pauses for them, with Lincoln Memorial in background. Bicycles in a rack and a woman riding a stationary exercise bike. People riding bicycles along Hains Point path.
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