U.S. infantrymen advance in Saint Lo, Normandy, France during World War II. Opening slate calls this subject "Big Push," referring to the Allied offensive to break out of the Normandy beachhead and push inland, during World War 2. (It's official name was "Operation Cobra.") An M4 sherman tank followed by a jeep, pass the camera. Another jeep passes in the opposite direction. Next, are seen a Sherman tank and two 3-inch Gun Motor Carriages,M10, loaded with sandbags and displaying aerial recognition panels on their tops. U.S. infantrymen move cautiously in brush at side of the dirt road, as more armor passes. A soldier positions his aerial recognition panel in place on his jeep. (These were fluorescent panels to prevent friendly fire from Allied aircraft.)
March 1917 revolution in Russia. Russians marching on the streets of Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg). A man throws Bolshevik leaflets at a passing tram. Men and women grab leaflets. More communist pamphlets and leaflets thrown at crowds. Crowds holding handwritten signs in Russian as they parade in the streets. Crowds waving their hats. Bolshevik men and women in uniform raise their swords. Russians with rifles and hats smiling. A Bolshevik soldier smashes a Russian Empire double headed eagle (Crest of the Royal Family) with the butt of his rifle from the facade of a building. Russian crowds gathered in a square.
Crowds of Russians near the Alexander Column of the Palace Square outside the Winter Palace (Palace Embankment, 32, St Petersburg, Russia, 190000) in Saint Petersburg showing their support for Serbia against Austro-Hungarian aggression. This was during the July Crisis of 1914. Crowds holding signs and Russian flags, bearing the Pan-Slavic colors, showing solidarity with Serbia, a Slavic country like Russia. Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna come out to the balcony to watch the cheering crowds.
Two United States Army Signal Corps soldiers inspect a German Torn Fu G radio west of Saint-Lô during World War 2. A soldier tunes the dial of the walkie-talkie, also known as a man-portable radio, as another soldier listens to its sound. A soldier removes the radio from the back of the other soldier. Soldier lays down walkie-talkie and its accessories on the ground. The radio's 2.4NC38 battery is pulled and tested. Two soldiers fix the radio while listening with headset (headphones).
Free French troops activities near Saint-Lô, France during World War 2. Captured German prisoners-of-war are kept inside a barbed wire enclosure, with Allied soldiers on guard. French Major General Jacques Philippe Leclerc and United States Army Major General Walton H. Walker walking together on Utah Beach while surrounded by soldiers and photographers. General Leclerc and General Walker talking to each other as photographers take photos. General Leclerc and General Walker board an Dodge WC51 command car together as soldiers and photographers surround them.
U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at Saint Louis, Missouri. F-4J test flight aircraft #155557 MAC 2833 lifts off from runway, climbs steeply and goes into a vertical attitude. Pilot and co-pilot eject. Plane continues climbing and levels off. F-4J crashes, wheels down, and explodes into a big fireball. Black smoke billows upward from flames, and drifts upward. (Both crew members survived the ejection: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.)