U.S. Air Service Lt. M C Markham and Lt. L S Powell view the paper iron crosses pasted over bullet holes of Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft.Ground crewmen push a damaged Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft at Dogneville in France. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Scenes on an escort carrier of Task Group 52.2 off Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Aviator converses with another officer. Crew members pushing several General Motors FM-2 Wildcat aircraft with wings folded, along the flight deck. Some of the FM-2s have someone in the cockpit and engine running. These are simply guided by a few deck crew members.
USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in the Caribbean. Airmen work on a U.S. Grumman S2F tracker aircraft. S2Fs are warming up on the flight deck of Valley Forge. A U.S. Piasecki HUP-2 helicopter warms up and then takes off. An S2F catapults and leaves the ship.
Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War 1. Salmson 2A2 aircraft are parked in a field with men seated on the ground in the shade of their wings. A pilot, standing next to a Salmson 2A2, puts on his flight gear while smoking a cigarette. He climbs aboard the airplane which has the red and blue buffalo insignia of the 99th Aero Squadron painted on its fuselage. The photographer- gunner in rear cockpit loads canisters of ammunition on his Darne-built Lewis twin machine guns and checks the movement of the gun's scarff ring mounting. He receives an aerial camera from a ground crewman. Two airmen work on a Vickers machine gun installed beside the nose of the aircraft (synchronized to fire through the propeller). Scene shifts to an aircraft taking off. Camera shifts back to the aircraft getting ready, where a ground crewman pulls the propeller through to clear any hydraulic lock and the pilot starts the engine. The aircraft taxis and takes off.
French soldiers sit with a group of adoring French women on top of a French 2nd Armored Division M4 Sherman tank in Paris during World War 2, celebrating liberation of Paris. French soldier climbs the tank with a bottle of wine. Soldier drinks wine straight from the bottle. French women and soldiers talking to each other, eating chocolate and drinking wine. A soldier shaves his face while facing the side of a tank. The French 2nd Armored Division symbol is seen near the shaving soldier. French men and women with bicycles view a French 2nd Armored Division Piper Cub aircraft parked on the sidewalk.
French 2nd Armored Division tanks in front of Notre Dame de Paris during World War 2 liberation of Paris. Pedestrians walking in front of Notre Dame de Paris (6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France). French 2nd Armored Division tanks, some with names “Chateau Larose” and “Chateau Laffitte”, arrive in front of the Notre Dame. A soldier directs a tank to reverse. A French 2nd Armored Division M4 Sherman tanks “Pte de Vanves”, “Pte Maillot” driving in front of Notre Dame. French soldiers and civilians stand. Rows of tanks parked near civilians. Red Cross truck arrives. Red Cross medics rush with a wheeled bed. Crowds gathered in front of Notre Dame with the Free France banner hanging in front. Civilians and female nurses running. Groups of civilian men marching in three lines along a road. Crowds of French civilians cheering from stone balustrade. A nurse stands on a balustrade to watch a parade. A French woman smokes a rolled cigar while sitting on a balustrade with crowds. A man smoking a pipe and a girl stand among the crowd.
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