U.S. President with the Pasadena Drum Corps in Washington DC, United States. The Pasadena Drum Corps march in formation in front of the White House in Washington DC. One of the corps holding U.S. flag. United States President Herbert Hoover, flanked by B.W.Gearhart, The American Legion, Department of California Commander, and James K.Fish, the American Legion, Department of California Adjutant, in front of the corps standing in formation. The corps, with the instruments, in front of the White House.
A U.S. official and Cuban officials at the monument to the victims of battleship USS Maine in Havana, Cuba. The monument to the victims of USS Maine. Cuban Government officials and the American Ambassador offering wreaths at the base of the monument in memory of U.S. Naval officers and men who died when the battleship USS Maine sank. Label on one of the wreaths read 'Personal Representative of the United States of America'. A large crowd gathered around the monument. An aircraft in flight above the buildings in the vicinity of the monument. Views of the monument and the crowd.
View of bridge across the Marne River destroyed by retreating German soldiers. View shifts to U.S. Army XX Corps troops, trucks, jeeps, halftracks and tank destroyers crossing a pontoon bridge erected by Army Engineers nearby, at the bridgehead captured on 27 August 1944, during World War 2. French civilians watch from the bank of the river and wave as troops pass through their village. Using this crossing, the XX Corps continued its advance on Rheims.
An Anglo-American Nazi internment camp in Vittel, France. A family of a man, a woman and a small boy in the Anglo-American Nazi German internment camp at the Grand Hotel in Vittel. Other internees behind them. The small boy in the woman's arms. Men and women behind them smile. Liberated internees in a group on a pathway. A person in the front waves the U.S. flag. The group moves along the pathway waving the U.S. flag. A garden beside the pathway. A group of the Little Sisters of the Poor nuns move in a group from a building. Men and women stand on either side of the path. The group of nuns in black habit.
American Independence Day in Paris, France. Several people at the tomb of Lafayette in Picpus Cemetery. A number of U.S. flags at the tomb of Lafayette in the cemetery. Several tombs at the cemetery. U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery and other officials at the tomb of General Lafayette. A wreath being laid at the tomb. 'Lafayette' inscribed on the tombstone. Officials gathered around the tomb. A flag presented by Count de Chambrun to the ambassador. Jefferson Caffery and other officials converse. The ambassador with the flag. Flags at the cemetery. Several tombs in the cemetery enclosed by small fences. People filing out of the cemetery.
A man stands on the wing of a U.S. Army customized DC-2 or DC3 aircraft outfitted with additional sensors in the lower part of the nose and a circular antennae of some kind mounted over the cabin. Newsreel notes state that the "mystery plane" is "directed by robot pilot" during a test by the U.S. Army in Oakland, California. (Likely early testing in automated flight control, blind flying, and instrument flying.) A man works on the engine. View of three men in civilian business suits, present for the flight test. (Possibly inventors or scientists who created the technology.) The aircraft taxis and takes off.
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