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U.S. President Nixon, Defense Secretary Laird and State Secretary Rogers on an airfield in Midway Island during the Vietnam War.
U.S. President Richard Nixon and other officials on Midway Island during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Air Force officer saluting. Honor guards and officers in charge in the background. President Nixon leaving a speaker's stand on an airfield. The President with a Commanding Officer and other officials walks past the officers in charge of honor guards. People gathered watching the President and the officials. The doorway to a terminal building in view. A sign above the doorway reads 'Aloha'. The President and the officials entering the terminal through the doorway. Civilians and other officers watching them. U.S. Navy personnel and the civilians gathering around the President in a fenced area. The President shaking hands and talking with the navy personnel and a few people in the crowd. An officer with a walkie talkie beside the fence. Various views of the President shaking hands with people in the crowd. The President walking away with the Commanding officer. Several navy personnel in white uniforms in the area. President Nixon talking with the flight stewardesses in blue uniforms. U.S. U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers standing behind the President. Other civilians in the area. U.S. Marines standing in formation in the background. One of the stewardesses and a few men taking pictures with cameras.
U.S. President Nixon greeting South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu and officials on Midway Island during Vietnam War.
U.S. President Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu on Midway Island during the Vietnam War. President Nixon standing with an officer on an airfield. A Pan American aircraft taxiing on the airfield. The aircraft taxiing into a parking area. A crowd gathered on the airfield. President Nixon and naval officer walking towards the ramp of the aircraft. A group of station officers in white uniforms beside the aircraft. President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu and other officials debarking from the aircraft. President Nixon greeting the officials at the base of the ramp. People taking pictures of the event. President Nixon and President Thieu with the officials walking away from the aircraft. President Nixon introduces American officials to President Thieu. President Thieu shakes hands with the officials. The Presidents talking. The officials standing beside them. Both the Presidents get on to a speaker's stand to receive honors. The Presidents standing at attention on the stand. Honor guards coming to present arms. U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guards present arms. A band master directing a U.S. Marine Corps band. The station officers saluting. President Nixon and President Thieu leave the stand to inspect the honor guards. The Presidents with a U.S. Marine Corps officer inspecting the honor guards.
Funeral services for dead U.S. servicemen on Midway Island after Battle of Midway during World War II.
Burial services for fallen U.S. servicemen on Midway Island after Battle of Midway in World War 2. Chaplain before flag draped caskets. Marines give 3-volley salute. U.S. Navy Captain, USMC (US Marine Corps) Colonel Harold Douglas Shannon, and USMCR (US Marine Corps Reserve) Major James Roosevelt salute. Boats on water for burial at sea. Formation of aircraft. A Marine looks through binoculars. Smoke and flame rise from burning building on Midway Island. A man crosses out signs with paint brush indicating lost Japanese aircraft and battleships in Battle of Midway.
Aftermath of the Battle of Midway in World War II
Views of U.S. Navy pilots, their aircraft, and aftermath of Japanese bombing of Midway Island, in World War 2. Opening scene shows a formation of U.S. Navy Douglas Dauntless aircraft in flight. A U.S. Navy pilot climbs from the cockpit of an F4f Hellcat airplane on the deck of an aircraft carrier. His aircraft displays symbols for two Japanese aircraft downed. Another pilot in cockpit of his airplane that displays symbols for 7 downed Japanese aircraft. He climbs from his cockpit. Other pilots climbing out of their aircraft. One displays symbols for 6 kills. Three of them pose in front of an airplane. Scene shifts to Midway Island where a hangar is still burning from Japanese bombing. Glimpse of Gooney birds. Sentries stand on the airfield, with black smoke rising in the background. Closeup of wing from a downed Japanese airplane. Marines look through tangled pieces of crashed airplanes. One leans on a bent propeller blade. Heavy black smoke from petroleum fire is seen in background. Scene shifts to a PBY Catalina flying boat in flight, searching for survivors of the Battle of Midway. A U.S. Navy aircraft is seen floating in the sea, as a Navy warship heads toward it. A survivor is seen being helped from a PBY aircraft. Earlier picture of him smoking a cigarette inside the PBY aircraft. Sailors help him to a waiting ambulance. Other rescued survivors are seen standing about. Sailors place a litter aboard a PBY and use it to transport another survivor to sick bay. (Narrator states this is the 13th survivor rescued by the pilot of this PBY Catalina.) Ambulatory survivors being covered with blankets as they sit in the back of an ambulance, that then drives away with back door still open. Views of destroyed hospital on Midway Island. Red cross markings on are shown in the debris.
American soldiers firing anti aircraft artillery at Japanese airplanes during the Battle of Midway during World War II.
Color footage shot under the direction of John Ford, whose film crew was stationed at Midway during the battle. Japanese aircraft flying above Midway Island as they commence attacks. U.S. Marines firing an antiaircraft machine gun. Black flak bursts in the sky. Four SB2U - 3 ‘Vindicator’ dive bombers, of Marine Corps VMSB-241, taking off from Midway Island, with single bombs slung under their bellies. They pass a B-17 parked at side of runway. Japanese planes bombing Midway. An explosion near the camera with debris flying all about. A bomb hits only yards away from the camera. A hangar hit and on fire. American airplane overhead. Another bomb burst with debris thrown everywhere. U.S. Marines trying to deal with destruction and fires. Close up as they raise the American flag on a tall flagpole. A flaming fuel tank raising black smoke with the flag flying in the midst of the destruction. A Japanese airplane in flames. A jeep driving over debris near a destroyed U.S. airplane. Marine medic with red cross armband.More bombs striking fuel storage facilities and causing huge flames and black smoke. A Japanese airplane struck by machine gun fire loses power and crashes. The wing panel of a PBY Catalina, painted to simulate a crashed Japanese aircraft, has a puddle of gasoline burning in the middle of the "meatball" insignia.
U.S. PBY Catalina flying boat picks up pilot survivors off the coast of Midway during World War II.
Survivors of crashed and ditched U.S. planes are rescued on Midway Island after Battle of Midway during World War 2. U.S. Army personnel on Midway Island after securing the same. Damaged buildings and pieces of Japanese planes on island. Gooney birds roam the island. U.S. PBY Catalina flying boat in flight. Crews of crashed U.S. planes leaving PBYs after being rescued. Some are carried on stretchers and placed in an ambulances. Ambulance is driven away (with door still open). A ditched U.S. airplane afloat and a ship nearby. Remains of destroyed hospital.
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