John Charles Daly, standing in the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, speaks about recipients of the Medal of Honor during the Civil War and Indian Campaigns. Excerpts from films about those events are then shown. A newspaper headline reads 'Southern States withdraw from Union'. Dramatized scenes: Men fire artillery during the American Civil War in 1861. Soldiers mounted on horseback advance on a battlefield. A montage of current day scenes show battlefield at Gettysburg and various memorial statues commemorating Union soldiers of the Civil War. . Mr. Daly points at names of Civil War Union heroes (1861-1865) and heroes of Native American Indian Campaigns (1861-1898) in the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon in Virginia.
John Charles Daly stands in the Hall of Heroes, at the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A. Behind him is a display containing names of the American military recipients of the Medal of Honor. He points to a section of a display listing 131 names added during the Korean War. He then moves to the latest section of the display, covering the period 1964 and subsequent, in the Vietnam War. At this point, the film begins to depict scenes from the Vietnam conflict. An American soldier holding a rifle is silhouetted against a light sky background. U.S. soldiers firing M-16 rifles. shadow cast by a Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopter flying overhead. Soldier firing machine gun from M113 armored personnel carrier (APC). U.S. gun crews firing 105mm howitzer; 175mm self-propelled gun; M107 Howitzer; and battery of howitzers in the field. Army troops inside a helicopter. View from below of CH-47 helicopter (Jolly Green Giant) landing and troops leaving its rear door. A patrol of American soldiers firing their weapons as they move forward. Soldiers dealing with difficult terrain. One stepping through deep mud. Infantry patrol moving and taking cover. A soldier using field radio. A UH-1 flying over palm trees. Infantry moving through jungle accompanied by M113 APC. Explosions and fire. Soldiers boarding a Huey helicopter, as the ship's gunner delivers covering fire by machine gun. Soldiers having a smoke while airborne in the helicopter.
The Rose Bowl game at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) compete in the Rose Bowl Game. The USC team wins the game. Spectators cheer the players.
Annual matches of the National Rifle Association of America at Camp Perry in Ohio. The participants arrive at the firing line for the National Rifle Association rapid fire championship in a 200 yards range. View of the targets. Marksmen take position and fire rifle at the target. Participants mark the targets. Participants wait as two men mark the scores on a board.
Tests to evaluate and improve the performance of the BQM-34 Firebee drone's drogue and mid-air retrieval system (MARS). Aerial view of a CH-53 helicopter in flight. with MARS equipment deployed. A Teledyne Ryan BQM-34 F Firebee drone descending by main parachute as small striped drogue chute trails high above. The CH-53 snags the drone's engagement chute and the main chute releases and flies away. The CH-53 tows the suspended drone.
Dramatic view from NASA spacecraft looking backwards during launch. Hot glow from booster rocket, which is then seen separating from the launch vehicle, and the blue sphere of the Earth becomes visible. View of earth from orbiting spacecraft. Glimpse of NASA Astronauts, Frank Borman, and James Lovell, in Gemini VII. view of desert terrain on earth, below. views of sunsets from space. another glimpse of Frank Borman in spacecraft.
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