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World War 1 aviators Richthofen, Billy Bishop, Georges Guynemer, Charles Nungesser, others, decorated in various ceremonies

Famous World War 1 aviators from various countries. Several aviators stand on airfield in Belgium. Aviators of World War I are decorated, seen in footage from several different ceremonies. Includes French aviators Georges Guynemer and Charles Nungesser, German pilot Manfred Richthofen (the Red Baron), and Canadian aviator Billy Bishop in ceremonies. A plane on the airfield. King Albert of Belgium is taken for a flight over Germany. Planes in flight. View of aviator Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, smiling beside a barracks building. View of soldiers gathered at Quentin Roosevelt's grave with primitive cross marker dated July 14, 1918.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054366
The President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser and other officials inspect an Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft with luxury appointments

Activities at an airfield in Egypt. Men stand near a parked Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft on the airfield. The President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and other dignitaries walk towards the aircraft. The President shakes hands with the aircrew. The President and officials board the aircraft and admire its luxurious appointments. View of the interior of the aircraft. The President descends steps from the aircraft. Steps are painted with name: "MISRAIR."Honor guard of Egyptian soldiers marches past the President and his party.

Date: 1956
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056073
Allied bombing campaign against Germany and Luftwaffe defenses during World War II

German M-Class mine sweeper in waters off France in World War 2. It is armed with quad-mounted 2 cm Flak 38 AA guns (2 cm Flakvierling 38). German Navy sailors look up at contrails from high flying Allied aircraft. Officer sights aircraft overhead and hurries to report it. He records his observation in a log. German radio operator transmits information over wireless telephone by morse code telegraph key. A mass of contrails from Allied aircraft is seen in the sky. Scene shifts to a German airfield in France, where Focke-Wulf FW-190 fighters are lined up. Ground crewman shows motion picture gun camera for an airplane. Men push a Messerschmitt Bf 104 out of a hangar. Closeup of German pilots strapping into Me-104s and taxiing for takeoff. FW-190s and Me-109s taking off from airfield. German civilians entering a Flak tower for refuge as a bomb shelter. View from inside as doors close. Trams stopped on street. Hospital staff moving patients to bunkers (bomb shelters). Massive contrails from Allied bombers. View inside a German command post, where women workers and German officers with headphones plot positions of attacking planes on large maps. Flight of German Me-109 aircraft in formation. Gun camera showing A U.S. B-17 bomber being shot from rear with its wing on fire and explosion in its tail. Glimpse of head-on attack against B-17. Two Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft in flight. A lone U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber under attack. B-17 with piece of windshield missing and horizontal stabilizer shot away. B-17 bomber formation under attack from the rear. View of pilot and instruments inside German fighter plane. B-17 being shot to pieces in frontal attack. More attacks on formations of B-17s. German women in command post recording combat information on displays. Parachutes of American B-17 crew in sky. Captured U.S. fliers being escorted under guard, and one, with head bandaged, being questioned by German officers (English conversation is heard.) The flier says he is fine They ask another flier if he is wounded. He says only a twisted ankle. Temporary graves of dead American fliers, with wooden crosses and names on them, including one with name George J.Parker.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056343
U.S. Air operations from Adak, and views of.the island's defenses during the Aleutians campaign of World War II.

As film begins, two U.S. B-24 bombers are seen taxiing across the Adak airfield to takeoff on a bombing run against the Japanese airfield at Kiska Island. Closeup of B-24 with engines running. About an inch of water covers the ramp. The two bombers take off (followed by others unseen). Airmen on the ground watch them depart. Scene shifts to the port of Adak. A cargo ship and a tugboat moving a barge are seen in the water. Trucks drive along the beachfront. Mountains loom in the background. Military supplies, including munitions are seen piled along the beach. Soldiers carry some goods over their shoulders. Closeup of items piled on the beach. A dog trots along with soldiers walking the beach. Change of scene highlights guns installed as coastal defense on the island, including fixed heavy guns, anti-aircraft guns and machine guns. A sailor viewed through a life safer buoy, paints part of a warship. A Navy PBY Catalina on patrol is seen overhead. U.S. gunboats patrol the harbor. Crew members are seen aboard a U.S. destroyer patrolling deep waters off Adak. They exchange blinker light messages with a Bancroft-class (four-stacker) destroyer. Glimpse of the Bancroft-class destroyer flashing blinkers lights. Sailors on a destroyer respond to alarm of sonar sound contacts and man battle stations. Closeup of a Bancroft-class destroyer, followed by views of depth charges being launched from a destroyer underway. Exchanges of blinker light messages between camera destroyer and a Bancroft-class destroyer.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057597
A medical field unit demonstrates a mobile emergency hospital of the RAF (Royal Air Force) in France.

The RAF (Royal Air Force) visits France to demonstrate to the foreign ally one of the most mobile emergency hospitals yet developed. An RAF Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft taxis at a French airfield. RAF officials seated at the airfield. Medical field unit members disembark from the aircraft. Equipment is unloaded by men and tents are set up. Men carry stimulated stretcher cases into the tents.

Date: 1958, April 14
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058260
Freed hostages board a U.S. Air Force C- 13OE aircraft in Paulis, Republic of Congo

View from cockpit of a U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft through final approach and landing at Paulis airfield, Republic of Congo. On the ground, Belgian soldiers direct former hostages to board with their baggage via the rear door of the aircraft. View of the C-130 taking off from the airfield. Soon after, another C-130 lands, raising much dust as it reverses all four engines.

Date: 1964, November 27
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058321