Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietcong soldiers carry a dud MK82 bomb in a sling from a wooded area. A soldier removes the fuse and the detonator from the bomb. A soldier plants homemade mines on a trail. Vietcong soldiers dig a hole on the trail and put the mines. They cover the mines with mud. The soldiers digging the holes on the trail
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A bunker in a wooded area. A boy and a woman store hand grenades in a foxhole. The boy passes the grenades to the woman in the foxhole. The boy with a shovel in his hand. Vietcong soldiers dig a tunnel. The soldiers seated on the ground. They clean and repair weapons.
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Vietcong soldier distributes hand out material to the Vietnamese at a meeting. The Vietnamese read the material . A soldier puts a safe conduct sticker on a bus leaving a check point. The sticker on the bus. Men read the material. A bus drives past on a road and stops. The Vietnamese leave the bus at a check point. The Vietnamese including women are seated in a group and listen to a Vietcong speaker.
Reconstruction of Berlin, Germany following World War II. Aerial view looking over city of Berlin. Vehicles drive past on a main boulevard. Buildings in the background. A garden alongside the boulevard. Car traffic on the road. A sign board reads Der Neu Tiergarten ('The New Zoo'). A woman looks at a map on the signboard for the new Tiergarten zoo. People walk on the streets. Buildings on either side of the streets.
Film opens showing people assembled at a celebratory dinner, honoring French aviators, Captain Dieudonne Costes and Lieutenant Maurice Bellonte, who on September 1, 1930, flew their Breguet XIX aircraft,"Le Point d'Interrogation" (The Question Mark) non-stop from Paris to New York, and thence to Dallas Texas,landing at Love Field, Dallas, on September 4th,where they were greeted by 30,000 aviation enthusiasts. They are being honored by William Edward (Colonel) Easterwood, Jr., a Texas philanthropist and aviation enthusiast who had offered a $25,000 prize for the first one-stop flight from Paris to New York to Dallas,Texas. Colonel Easterwood delivers congratulatory remarks, and presents his check for the prize to the fliers. Closeup of the Easterwood check. Broadcast microphones are placed close to Colonel Easterwood and the fliers. Next, the fliers stand near the end of the event. Scene shifts completely to Costes and Bellonte with their aircraft, "The Question Mark, aboard a steamship, ready to sail back to France. Closup of the aircraft with large question mark painted on its side along with names of cities world-wide to which it had flown. Among these are: Hanoi; Calcutta; Karachi; Alepo; Athens; Rome; Paris; and New York. (Note: There is a display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas Love Field, that includes the actual prize check as well as a panoramic picture of the "Question Mark" landing in Dallas, along with a plaque commemorating the event.)
The Marshall Plan at work in Great Britain. Newly built British Vauxhall cars drive past on a road. Buildings in the background. British Vauxhall cars lined up at a dock for export. A ship at the dock. Grain flowing down a chute from a ship to a shore British food goods on sale at shops in the U.S. Traffic on the streets of New York City. A late 1940's Jaguar convertible automobile parked in front of a car dealership. A man and a woman seated in the parked Jaguar car. British goods on display. Plummer Glass on 5th Avenue. 'British Tweeds Ltd.' written on a building Church's English Shoes storefront in Manhattan. A woman buys clothes from a shop. Different British goods shops in the U.S. People and traffic on the streets. Goods being loaded in a ship. Ships at a Thames shipyard and cranes for loading the ships, with London Bridge in the background. Men and woman play bowling in a field area. Men and women enter a British pub and drink while seated at the bar tables. British workers and pedestrians crossing a bridge while double decker buses and trucks move by on the road beside. A train crosses a bridge.
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