Crowds gather to watch a horse race in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Jockeys riding horses in track. The horse race starts. Spectators cheer as they watch the horse race. Sailors, servicemen and Dominican civilian men watch the horse race from front row. President of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo and Mrs. Jeannette Johnston “Johnnie” Andrews, widow of Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews, watch the horse race together. The flag of the Dominican Republic hangs behind President Trujillo. Flags of the Dominican Republic hang on top of a building.
C-130 aircraft with opened cargo hatch and supplies being loaded. A C-130 cargo plane taxies and another one takes off in the background. U.S. troops march on airfield. U.S. Air Force personnel help a Catholic Priest arriving at airfield on a school bus. Foreign nationals are being evacuated and supplies are being brought in by U.S. Air Force Cargo planes. Long lines of C-130s taxi for takeoff. In West Africa, view from cockpit of a C-130 and from inside the cargo hold as the aircraft deploys extraction parachute with connected cargo of grain for the local population suffering severe drought. People gather around a town center square, where grain is being distributed. Woman carries basket of grain on her head.
Civil War in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. U.S. Marine Forces patrol the perimeter of the international zone in Santo Domingo. A helicopter of the U.S. Marine Corps brings in supplies. A team of the Organization of American States. Marines in the streets. A Marine takes aim and fire. A wounded on a stretcher. Men near the open boot of a car. Civilians in the streets.
Leaflets drop over a village in the Dominican Republic. A United States Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft in flight over the village. People work in fields in front of a building. The aircraft drops leaflets over the building. People holding leaflets walk.
Sniper fire on 82nd Airborne Military Police in the Dominican Republic during a civil war. 82nd Airborne Military Police at a busy traffic control point are attacked by harassing rifle fire. U.S. Army and civilian vehicles pass an intersection. Civilians walk along a street in the foreground. Soldiers take cover against a building. One soldier starts running across storefronts. Corner with rubble on street. Two soldiers with rifles near a store. People run across the intersection. An American soldier walks near a storefront. A civilian carrying a package walks calmly across a street. Other civilians on the street. 82nd Airborne soldiers run from a gas station. U.S. Army trucks driven. Jeeps come to a stop. The Americans run around a street corner.
Sniper fire on 82nd Airborne Military Police in the Dominican Republic during a civil war. Two natives are motioned back by Military Police with a rifle. U.S. soldiers are crouched in the distance. Two soldiers run across a street in the foreground. People move on the street. 82 Airborne soldiers take cover behind a jeep. A civilian car is next to the jeep. Civilians walk about. Soldiers with M-16 rifles behind the jeep. A boy standing behind the men aims a cap pistol.