A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. Unmanned experimental flights. Launch of a spacecraft. Astronauts at work. Training of the astronauts. American astronaut Alan Shepard in a spacecraft. The Mercury-Atlas 6 mission underway. Men work on a spacecraft. Preparation for the launch of the spacecraft at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The spacecraft on a launch pad. Astronauts prepare for the spaceflight. Men at work in a building. The Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft is ready to be launched. John Glenn prepares for the flight. The spacecraft on a launch pad. A U.S. flag on the spacecraft. Glenn takes his position in Friendship 7. The countdown begins. People gather and look at the spacecraft. Glenn in the spacecraft. The spacecraft is launched. Vapors rise from the bottom of the spacecraft at liftoff. It ascends towards the sky. Technicians establish contact with Glenn. Views of mission control stations and countdown clocks. United States Air Force missile range instrumentation ship Rose Knot underway as it follows the course of the spacecraft.
A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. John Glenn in Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft traveling in space. A view of the earth from the spacecraft. The location of the spacecraft on TV monitors at Cape Canaveral in Florida. A man talks over a phone. Men at work in a building. Glenn directs the spacecraft back to earth. He is recommended to use the fly-by–wire mode. Caribbean was selected to receive Friendship 7. Glenn says that there is a fireball outside. Men at work in the headquarters building. A ship underway at sea. Men look at the spacecraft through binoculars. The spacecraft lands in the Atlantic Ocean . Glenn is taken aboard. He boards an helicopter and arrives at the headquarters.
A U.S. Special Forces ordnance demolition expert conducts a class on M-26 grenade launchers for Montagnard trainees in Bu Gia, Vietnam during Operation Switchback of the Vietnam War. SP/4 (Specialist 4th Class) Thomas Coppinger conducts a class for Montagnard trainees through two Vietnamese interpreters. Rifle grenades exploding on an impact area. The two interpreters fire M-26 rifle grenades. Explosions on the impact area.
U.S. Special Forces ordnance demolition expert SP/4 (Specialist 4th Class) Thomas Coppinger conducts a class on M26 grenade launchers for Montagnard trainees in Bu Gia, Vietnam during Operation Switchback of the Vietnam War. Montagnard trainees throwing M26 grenades. Explosions on an impact area.
Different huts which house U.S. 5th Special Forces Detachment Operations, Intelligence and Communications in Bu Gia, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Montagnard soldiers dig an ammunition bunker. Completed ammunition bunker with bamboo spikes and barbed wire around it.
Montagnard soldiers attend a Vietnamese flag raising ceremony in Bu Gia, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Montagnard troops in formation salute as the Vietnamese flag is being raised. The formation breaks up and the soldiers march off. A Montagnard soldier raises the Vietnamese flag.
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