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Colonel W.E. Easterwood presents a $25,000 prize to French aviators Coste and Bellontefor the first one-stop flight from Paris to New York to Dallas.
Film opens showing people assembled at a celebratory dinner, honoring French aviators, Captain Dieudonne Costes and Lieutenant Maurice Bellonte, who on September 1, 1930, flew their Breguet XIX aircraft,"Le Point d'Interrogation" (The Question Mark) non-stop from Paris to New York, and thence to Dallas Texas,landing at Love Field, Dallas, on September 4th,where they were greeted by 30,000 aviation enthusiasts. They are being honored by William Edward (Colonel) Easterwood, Jr., a Texas philanthropist and aviation enthusiast who had offered a $25,000 prize for the first one-stop flight from Paris to New York to Dallas,Texas. Colonel Easterwood delivers congratulatory remarks, and presents his check for the prize to the fliers. Closeup of the Easterwood check. Broadcast microphones are placed close to Colonel Easterwood and the fliers. Next, the fliers stand near the end of the event. Scene shifts completely to Costes and Bellonte with their aircraft, "The Question Mark, aboard a steamship, ready to sail back to France. Closup of the aircraft with large question mark painted on its side along with names of cities world-wide to which it had flown. Among these are: Hanoi; Calcutta; Karachi; Alepo; Athens; Rome; Paris; and New York. (Note: There is a display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas Love Field, that includes the actual prize check as well as a panoramic picture of the "Question Mark" landing in Dallas, along with a plaque commemorating the event.)
Detective make plaster cast of shoe print at crime scene, FBI lab examines door strike plate and plaster casts.
Police detectives outside home examining crime evidence. Detective with camera on tripod photographs a shoe print. Detectives examine a wooden door. Close up of metal striker plate from door as it is marked by detective as evidence. Close up view hands of forensic expert examining door strike plate. Technician at Tool Marks Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) laboratory with comparison microscope behind him. Forensic expert notes that "tool mark identifications are similar to the identification of a bullet that has been marked by the barrel of a gun. In both cases, a comparison microscope is used." Forensic expert uses a comparison microscope. Police detectives create a plaster cast of a shoe’s footprint at crime scene. Plaster cast placed in box containing other evidence to be sent to the FBI laboratory. At the FBI Tire and Shoeprint Unit, a tire print cast is displayed. Technician removes shoe print cast from forensic package.
German World War II aircraft Messerschmitt ME-109 G attacked by U.S. aircraft of VIII Fighter Command.
A film titled 'VIII Fighter Command Capt. O' Neill 62 Sqdn.(Squadron) 56 F.G.(Fighter Group) attacking ME-109 G on 20 December 1943'. Gun camera footage shows German Air Force aircraft ME-109 G exploding following aerial attack during World War II in Germany.
B-29 bombers being manufactured and they bombard the Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok, Thailand during World War II.
United States Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers in action in Thailand during World War II. Men work in a plant in the United States as they manufacture B-29 bombers. Men work on the body of the aircraft. In China, fuel barrels being loaded onto an aircraft for transporting. Chinese troops roll the barrels and pile them up at an air base for refueling B-29 aircraft. Fuel being unloaded from the barrels into a huge storage tank. Piled up barrels. A B-29 aircraft takes off and in flight. The Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok, Thailand being bombarded by the B-29s. Bombs impact and billows of smoke rise up.
U.S. AAF VIII Fighter Command Lt. Gen. JN Mcelroy strafes an airdrome and a train in Germany during World War II.
U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. 15 April 1944: Lieutenant General JN Mcelroy of the 355th Fighter Group 358th Squadron attacks ground targets. He strafes an airdrome and a train. Smoke due to the bombardment and firing. An aircraft on the ground. Black smoke rises up into the air.
Gun camera views from P-47 flown by Captain HL Fogg of U.S. 8th AF, VIII Fighter Command, 359 FG, 368th Fighter Squadron
U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. Gun camera views from 15 April 1944: Captain HL Fogg of the 359th Fighter Group 368th Squadron attacking ground targets, in one of their last combat missions in P-47s. (The unit converted to P-51s in April, 1944.) Captain Fogg strafes a train and an oil well. White smoke arises due to the firing and bombardment. An electric tower. The aircraft in flight over a field.
