Review of conflicts involving U.S. from World War 2 to 1970. A U.S. soldier with rifle and binoculars, on guard. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany to mass audience. German mobilization and blitzkrieg. U.S. troops firing small arms on island in Pacific, battling Japanese. U.S. soldiers on half-track firing artillery. Explosive destruction of Nazi swastika and Eagle symbol on top of building in Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany. General Douglas MacArthur stands as Japanese General signs surrender documents aboard USS Missouri, ending World War II. Times Square in New York City on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marking end of World War 2. American troops firing artillery and small arms in Korean War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the United Nations. Newspaper headlines about postwar Berlin Crisis. Soviet missiles on display in military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov and Nikita Khrushchev, at Kremlin, reviewing the parade. Cuban President Fidel Castro giving a speech. A newspaper headline reading: "Khrushchev orders removal of missiles" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet cargo ship with covered missiles on its deck. Red flag with image of Lenin and message: 'Partido Communista Dominicano' and a crowd chanting support for the Communist party in the Dominican Republic. Communist Chinese people marching with massed flags in the People’s Republic of China. Chairman Mao Zedong waving to a crowd of young supporters and Red Guards in China as they chant. A United States soldier in South Vietnam during Vietnam War looks through binoculars and then walks carrying his M-16 rifle. A map of Vietnam.
View of a United States Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft in flight overhead. Pilot and copilot in cockpit of a C-141 inflight. A flight engineer and navigator at their respective stations in the aircraft. C-141 aircraft from the 437th Military Airlift Wing, at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, taxis on the ramp at RAF Station, Mildenhall, England. A C-130 on final approach, passing thatched roof cottage and stone house nearby. A C-141transport aircraft flying low over a highway as it descends to land at the Rhein Main Air Base, Frankfurt, Germany. The C-141 touching down on the runway. View of trams running in the city of Frankfurt. Quick closeup of airport control tower at Torrejon Air Base, near Madrid, Spain and camera pans to a C-130 aircraft parked on the ramp. View from the air of the las ventas bull ring, in Madrid. The Banco Central building as viewed from the Plaza de la Cibeles, in Madrid. A MAC C-141 taxiing to park at the Incirlik Airfield, Adana, Turkey. Flowers in gardens at the Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul. Brief sunset view of an unidentified mosque. view of the passenger terminal at Karachi International Airport, Pakistan. Camera pans across a ramp to a MAC C-5 aircraft with its nose loading doors open. View of the Pasig River and buildings, from aircraft flying over Manila, Philippines and ground-level view of a central square. A crowded commercial business and shopping area of Ginza, Tokyo, Japan. Japanese pedestrians on the sidewalks and streets and views of Japanese people in mid 1970s fashions walking on streets of Tokyo. The Sydney Harbour Bridge (and Sydney Opera House in background), in Sydney, Australia. A C-5 inflight departing a coastline. Interior views of C-5 aircraft cockpit, with crew members at work. A navigator with sextant mounted in roof of aircraft.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) REFORGER II (Return of Forces to Germany) Operation. U.S. fighter aircraft F4 Phantom II in flight. The jet fighters dive at a hill in Germany. Hills covered with trees. Simulated bombs explode as jets dive at target. Napalm burns. Fire and heavy black smoke rises up as bombs explode. View of several buildings.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) REFORGER II (Return of Forces to Germany) Operations. US helicopter UH-1D Huey in flight over Germany. UH-1D Huey helicopter lands. The troops board the UH-1D Huey helicopter. Helicopter takes off. APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) cross field. Men loaded on the APC. Buildings in the far background. Black smoke rises from hills.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Reforger II (Return of Forces to Germany) exercise. Soldiers are seen in a small boat moving slowly along Main River in Germany. M60A1 Patton tanks cross floating mobile assault bridge over the river. Earth on riverbank in foreground has been recently worked over by construction equipment. Wooded mountain in the background. Armored Personnel Carriers (APC) and M-578 Tank retrievers cross bridge. M-578 Tank retriever tows an Armored Personnel Carrier. Men stand in the foreground.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) REFORGER II (Return of Forces to Germany) Operations. US helicopters UH-1D Huey in flight over hills, Germany. UH-1D Huey helicopters lay smoke screen on hillside. U.S. fighter aircraft F4 Phantom II dive at a hill. Hills covered with trees. Simulated bombs explode as jets dive at target. Black smoke rises up. U.S. helicopters UH-1D Huey fly towards hill in formation.