Full title reads: "Paris welcomes her Air Heroes. Lt. Codos and Adjt Rossi receive great ovation on return from Syria after breaking World's long distance record."
Paris, France.
Various confused shots of French aviators Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi as they are lifted from their plane...
Full title reads: "Paris welcomes her Air Heroes. Lt. Codos and Adjt Rossi receive great ovation on return from Syria after breaking World's long distance record."
Paris, France.
Various confused shots of French aviators Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi as they are lifted from their plane and carried shoulder high.
Codos and Rossi are escorted by dignitaries across the airfield. A military band are playing in the background.
A car carrying the pilots pulls up in centre of Paris. Crowds of people are there cheering.
Codos and Rossi appear at window of civic building and wave to cheering crowds. Their wives are with them enjoying the adulation of the crowd.
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