Italian leader Benito Mussolini along with other officials in Rome, Italy, watches a fleet of Savoia-Marchetti SM.55 returning from Air Minister Italo Balbo’s historical flight from Chicago, United States. Pilots get off from the aircraft. Fleet of Savoia-Marchetti SM.55 in flight. Italian pilots march under the Arch of Constantine (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome and are awarded by Il Duce.
Abandoned and wrecked cars loaded on a truck in New York City, United States. Crane lifts a car and places it into a smokeless furnace having a special chamber to eliminate air pollution. Car in flames.
Fleet of Savio-Marchetti SM.55 lead by Italo Balbo land in Chicago Illinois for the Chicago World's Fair. Sailors and citizens greet Italo Balbo and his air fleet on his arrival. Huge crowd gathered to welcome him as he drives through a parade in New York City before returning to Italy. Italo Balbo waves to the American people in New York. From a November 27, 1958 newsreel feature "25 years ago today".
Bi-wing Espenlaub, hang glider comes down a slope. Group of men tow Granau Glider into air from top of hill. Group of men gather around a crashed glider. Glider Zoegling and bi wing plane in flight. Glider catapults from top of sand dunes at Rosiden. The bi-wing glider goes down hill. Man in cockpit of Groenhoff sailplane. Pile of junk airplanes and wings.
Board shows 'Long Range Patrol CO E 50th Infantry' Airborne and insignia of 50th Infantry of United States. Sign above huts door reads 'Long Range Patrol CO E 50th Infantry'. Insignia of 50th Infantry with Air Borne and Long Range Patrol written on the sleeve. Logo with LRRP on soldier's cap. (Vietnam War period).
187th Regimental Combat Team paratroopers make practice parachute jumps in Korea. Formations of C-46 Commando aircraft carrying airborne troops fly overhead. Paratroopers begin jumping and soon fill the air with their parachutes. They are seen landing on the ground and some attend to equipment airdropped with them. Soon another wave of aircraft appear (this time USAF Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars). Paratroopers begin streaming from these aircraft as well. (At TC:01:05 through 01:15, two paratroopers are seen entangled or holding together with both their chutes opened above them.) (Korean War)
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