1928 GERMANY: SPORTS: Return of the "Bremen "Atlantic flyers" to Germany

Date: 1st January 1928

Location: Germany

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

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Bremen , Germany (18 June 1928)

Crowd and car decorarated with flowers outside Bremen town hall/ wide of crowd ( three pilots too far away to be seen/

(Unknown location )

Aircraft coming into land at airfield / Europa D-11 "Bremen" plane taxiing / man getting out of cockpit /

crowd including Captain James Fitzmaurice (dark cap and uniform) Baron von Huenefeld (behind man in glasses - possibly Captain Koehl) and their wives/ flyers greeting .

Unknown location/ presumably Bremen )

Ship decorated with flags coming into port / accompanied by tug boats / tug boat ? three pilots waving from ship /

(unknown location)

Motorcade procession with crowds at side of road / pilots getting out of car and going up steps to podium .stand / aircraft flying over head in display / crowd looking at "Bremen" plane with U.S Flag and Irish flags flying / pan of crowd / aircraft flying in display

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