A U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet aircraft lands at Sidi Slimane Air Force Base in Morocco. The B-47 taxis on a runway in the United Kingdom. A pilot in the cockpit. A ground crewman removes an obstacle from the front of the landing gear. The aircraft taxis and takes off. It lands at Sidi Slimane Air Force Base in Morocco. Several other aircraft parked at the base. A hangar in the background. The aircraft taxis on a runway. An officer writes on a poster. It reads '305th Bomb Wing HQ'. He walks away.
Three U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command Boeing B-47 Stratojet bombers, of the 305th Bomb Wing, make rocket-assisted (RATO) take offs from Brize Norton RAF Station, United Kingdom. The three taxi to the active runway and make their rocket assist take offs, in succession. The runway is wet. Smoke from the rockets on their fuselages, billows out behind each aircraft while taking off. Closeup of a USAF ground crewman watching the takeoffs.
D-Day Invasion of St. Marcouf, France during World War II. Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division round up and interrogate German prisoners.Opening scene shows U.S. 101st Airborne Division Paratroopers of the 506th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment) with Ace of Spades stenciled on their helmets. They apprehend German soldiers surrendering in midst of wooded area. A wounded German soldier is seen conversing with a U.S. trooper. He reaches out a bandaged right hand towards a Lieutenant. Another German soldier raises his hands as he surrenders. (Slate erroneously identifies 82nd Airborne.) Next, U.S. troopers are seen riding captured German Panzer I Ausf.A Sd.Ktz.101 tanks. One is pulling a field piece trooper riding on the barrel. . Ensuing sequence clearly shows Screaming Eagle shoulder patches on U.S. troopers of the 502nd PIR (hearts stenciled on their helmets) as they process German prisoners of war. Surrendered German military equipment, helmets and such, piled up on the ground.
D-Day Invasion of St. Marcouf, France during World War II. The burial of a dead German soldier. Paratroopers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division advance across a grassy field. Soldiers of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division file past the paratroopers. A German tracked motorcycle parked on pavement, surrounded by 101st Airborne Paratroopers, some of whom stand in a group and hold a captured Nazi flag.
Allied troops during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France in World War II. A United States Army medic gives first aid to wounded soldiers. Three Nazi German prisoners are captured by U.S. 3rd Battalion and U.S. 16th Regiment troops. Blood plasma given to the wounded. Soldiers huddle together on a small beach. The three Nazi prisoners are seated separately. The soldiers dig a foxhole in the foreground. One soldier in the foxhole in the background. The soldiers prepare dynamite fuses.
U.S. soldiers sit in small groups and wait for transportation in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Signs of various locations in Vietnam where the soldiers can be shipped. A helicopter in flight and a loudspeaker on a pole in the background. A pile of barracks bags kept on the ground. The soldiers wait for transportation to take them to their assigned units. A sign reads 'Movement Control'. Another sign reads '9th Inf Division'. The soldiers seated on barracks bags in a small group talk. A sign reads 'Pleiku' . Trucks loaded with the soldiers move out. Insignia of the United States on a truck.
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