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Troops used rockets to fight against enemies in foreign countries and during the U.S- British War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War.
Historic use of rockets in wars in foreign countries Sketches and pictures depict arrows and rockets used by Chinese people to fight against the enemies. British troops using rockets to fight against the Americans during the Anglo-American War of 1812. Rockets used during the Mexican-American War in the year 1846. View of Dr. Robert H Goddard, who launched the first liquid fueled rocket in U.S. experiments. He is seen in his working laboratory standing next to a rocket he was developing for possible use in World War 1 .
U.S. Army conducts a series of test firings of various battlefield missiles
U.S. Army firing battlefield missiles at test sites in the U.S.A. An Army Dart Missile is seen on launch stand as the film begins. It is fired and speeds low over the ground until it strikes a building target which it destroys in smoke filled explosion. Next, its later replacement, an SS-10 missile is seen on a simple launching pad in a field. It launches and flies swiftly to destroy a target tank. A Corporal missile (nuclear capable) is seen being trucked to a site at a test location. Soldier at a battlefield position remotely manipulates the Corporal missile, raising it upright to a launching position. View from a distance of the missile firing and disappearing in the clouds. View of a launching gantry, with a Sergeant missile standing upright in it. It fires and climbs out of sight.
A review of modern U.S. Army field weapons (circa 1955) showing some in tests and exercises
A U.S. Army Sergeant at a blackboard explains the concept of moments in mathematical terms to a classroom of soldiers. Next, soldiers are seen in a shop equipped with electronic equipment. An oficer watches as a soldier removes a motherboard from a bank of early computers. As the officer refers to a wiring diagram, the soldier checks the board. Scene changes to outdoors where several infantrymen are seen running alongside an M4A3E8 76 mm armed Sherman tank, as it climbs up from a ravine and moves forward. Next, two views of a Flame Thrower Tank M67 are seen as it fires a jet of flaming fluid. Field artillery pieces and tank guns and machine guns fire and destroy various targets on a field. A soldier presses plunger to remotely launch a tactical rocket. More views of tactical rockets being fired. A mushroom cloud created by the explosion of a tactical nuclear weapon. Camera pans over a variety of Army artillery, tanks, self-propelled guns, missiles and other field weapons.
U.S. Army National Guard serves the country during peace and war.
Film opens showing a poster of a National Guardsman with Nike missiles in the background. Sketches of National Guard (the Militia) maintaining order during civic disturbances in history. Sketches of Guardsmen in various uniforms over the ages. An early National Guard encampment. Mounted National Guard cavalry moving in formation during World War 1; Guard soldiers climbing a hill under fire on a Pacific island in World War 2; Guard troops marching in review during the Korean War; Guardsmen directing traffic during an emergency; Views of a disaster site. A National guardsman giving water to disaster victims. A contingent of National Guard demonstrating the manual of arms using their rifles. National Guard members training under supervision of the U.S. Army. They move across a field, cross a pontoon bridge. National Guard training in M4A3E8 Sherman medium Tanks. Guardsmen in Hawaii and in Alaska. National Guard maintaining a Nike Hercules missile.
Reenactments of American military in action during the Civil War and Indian Campaigns
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.
Medal of Honor recipients listed in Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon. New names added in Vietnam War
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.
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