Major Tinker issues orders to pilots Larson and Carr for Rio Grande border patrol in Texas "Big Bend". Curtiss biplane in the field. Pilots stand nearby and discuss. The plane takes off. Series of scenes of Curtiss biplane in air over Rio Grande on border patrol mission between United States and Mexico.
General Pascual Orozco, Federal General in Mexico stands in front of a building and poses for camera. Next view shows Mexican federal soldiers firing from trenches. Men in the background. Opening slate indicates there is a price on Orozco's head (possibly indicating film is from mid 1915 following Orozco's escape in the United States from arrest on charges of conspiracy to violate U.S. neutrality laws, preceding his capture and death in 1915)
L-4 airplane on the field at St Lo, France. Pilot in the cockpit. The plane takes off. United States officers confer at maps with camouflage nets on the sides of map board set up outdoors.
An announcer speaks invasion news into the microphone in New Caledonia, Australia. United States and French military personnel and civilians read news of invasion which is posted to outdoor bulletin board. Interviewer discusses invasion news with a French soldier and a New Caledonian housewife who supported the Free French Forces. Men and women go upstairs in a building. Women talk amongst themselves. Man teaches children outside a school. Girls on the bicycles on the street. Other civilians in discussion on the street. French flag on standard. (World War II period).
(French dub) An announcer speaks invasion news into the microphone in New Caledonia, Australia. United States and French military personnel and civilians read news of invasion posted to outdoor bulletin board. Person holds up a copy of Yank magazine. Interviewer discusses invasion news with a French soldier and a New Caledonian housewife. Men and women go upstairs in a building. Women talk amongst themselves. Man teaches children outside a school. Girls on the bicycles on the street. Other civilians in discussion on the street. French flag on standard. (World War II period).
U.S. Secretary of War Stimson, General Omar Bradley, and U.S. General George S. Patton tour a field hospital in Normandy, France during World War II. Bradley poses outside a hospital tent with Secretary Stimson and an army doctor. Wounded soldiers in the tent. Signs on boards outside the tent. The United States Army generals visit a battlefield graveyard above Omaha Beach after D-Day. They drive down to Omaha Beach, still littered with equipment.. They look around. A flag on the beachhead. Soldiers stand on the field. Tents on the field. Soldiers work on the field.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy ©2026 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2026 CriticalPast LLC.