A Pan American Airways 4-engine Boeing 707 (N893PA) passenger aircraft at Orly Airport outside Paris, France. Air France and Finnair passenger planes taxi along a runway. A sign on an aircraft reads 'Pan American'. A woman boards the flight. Several of the terminal buildings are seen. Large cranes and construction are underway in parts of the airport. A Boeing 707 aircraft taxis down a runway and past other aircraft on the airfield. Aerial views of Paris near Orly Airport. The aircraft in flight. The aircraft flies over a beach and comes in for landing. The aircraft lands and taxis. A sign reads 'Jet Clipper Whirlwind' on the side of the Pan American Boeing 707. Aircraft at an airfield.
American correspondents in Netherlands to mark 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. A steamer underway in a canal. Views in the village of Opijnen, in Gelderland, the Netherlands. A correspondent and his wife come out of a house. American correspondents near a bus. Houses along a road. An American flag at the walled cemetery in Opijnen, beside its 17th century Dutch Reformed Church, where the crew members of an American B-17 bomber from the 323 Squadron of the 91st Bomb Group (H) of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force are buried; shot down July 30, 1943 by the German Luftwaffe. Gravestones bearing the names of American soldiers who lost their lives when their crippled B-17 was shot down, including: Mike Anthony Perrotta, Hermon Daines Poling, Harold Royce Sparks, Robert Urquhart Duggan, Douglas Victor Blackwood, Americo Cianfichi. U.S. Color Guard marches from a town building toward the cemetery. A woman correspondent takes pictures. An American flag flies at half mast. Men, women and children at the cemetery. Dutch children carry flowers in their hands. The mayor of Opijnen speaks into a microphone. He and a woman place flowered wreaths at the graves of dead American soldiers. Two groups of four U.S. Convair F-102 Delta Dagger aircraft fly overhead followed by four F-104 Starfighters of the Royal Netherlands Airforce. Children walk past the graves. Additional propeller aircraft pass overhead honoring the airmen.
"Report from the Front" with Humphrey Bogart. Bogart emerges from a plane with his wife, Mayo Methot, and presents a film advertisement describing services of the American Red Cross to U.S. soldiers during World War II. He concludes by appealing to viewers in the theater to make a donation to the Red Cross. Clip shows scenes from the front during World War II. U.S. soldier firing a rifle. U.S. artillery firing. U.S. Army soldiers benefiting from services of the Red Cross during the war. Air crew on an airfield visits a Red Cross Club Mobile and receives coffee and donuts. Views of Red Cross rest clubs, care facilities, field offices including the exterior building and sign of the "American Red Cross Columbia Service Club", GIs in relaxation lounges, dances, dining rooms and views of food preparation, airmen in a reading room, African American soldiers gathered reading newspapers. Soldiers playing pool (billiards) and ping pong to relax. Men learning skills like basket making and weaving on a loom while recuperating from injuries. American prisoners of war with the hands up, being guarded by a Japanese soldier. Wounded U.S. Army soldier receiving blood in the field. Injured on stretchers being moved into tents.
Iskander Mirza during his tenure as the President of Pakistan. President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan aboard an aircraft in flight, looking out the passenger window at terrain below. Aerial views of flood affected areas. Vast areas submerged in water. Pakistan Air Force aircraft taxis on runway. President Iskander Mirza exits the aircraft. He shakes hands with officials at the airport.
Cotton ginning at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Row of horse carts carry seed cotton. It is weighed and unloaded through suction conveyor into the gin after cleaning. The gin roll separates seed and lint by saws. Moisture is added at the gin lint flue on cotton and separated by air blast. Dirt and trash are separated from cotton seed.
Benny Goodman band concert in Japan. Drum solo during opening section, then ensemble plays "Air Mail Special". Musicians show individual expertise in saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, piano and trombone. Japanese audience clap and tap their feet during the concert. Artists: Benny Goodman - Clarinet, Hank Jones - Piano, Israel Crosby - Bass, Mousey Alexander - Drums, Mel Davis- trumpet, Rex Peer - Trombone, Budd Johnson - Saxophone.
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