USS Independence underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Sailors aboard USS Independence. President of Cyprus Makarios III comes aboard the ship. An officer greets him. President Makarios III reviews troops on the deck. A Piasecki HUP-1 Retriever (H-25 Army Mule) tandem rotor helicopter lifts off from the deck. A ship underway at sea. President Makarios and others on the bridge of the ship as they look seawards.
USS Independence underway in the Mediterranean Sea. President of Cyprus Makarios III and U.S. Navy officers seated in chairs on the deck of USS Independence. Depth charges are launched and they fall into sea causing an explosion. President Makarios and the officers look on. The deck of USS Independence. Another ship being towed in the background. President Makarios talks to U.S. Navy officers on the deck of the ship. A U.S. Navy UH-25C helicopter aboard the ship. President Makarios boards the helicopter. The helicopter lifts off. A signalman hauls down the flag of Cyprus.
USS Independence underway in the Mediterranean Sea. A U.S. Navy officer salutes and U.S. Marine honor guard lined up on the deck of the ship. President Makarios III of Cyprus comes aboard the ship. President Makarios reviews Marine honor guard. A destroyer underway at sea. Flakes burst in the sky. A ship underway as depth charges explode in the background. Water splashes due to the explosion of the depth charges. Sailors on the deck of a ship underway. The depth charges explode at sea.
USS Independence underway in the Mediterranean Sea. President of Cyprus Makarios III and U.S. Navy officers on the deck of a ship. A U.S. Navy UH-25C helicopter on the deck of the ship. President Makarios III boards the helicopter. The helicopter lifts off. USS Independence underway at sea. President Makarios III gets off the UH-25C helicopter on the deck of the ship. He inspects sailors lined up on the deck. U.S. Navy officers talk to dignitaries from Cyprus aboard the ship.
The role of USAF bombers, submarines and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) in maintaining world peace especially in the Mediterranean, Vietnam and Berlin during the Cold War. View of formation of United States Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft flying overhead in a blue sky. View from low flying aircraft of a U.S. Navy Polaris submarine cruising in ocean waters. A USAF Intercontinental Ballistic Missile being raised slowly upward from a silo into a launch-ready position. View from ground of large number of American paratrooper soldiers dropping from sky and landing on a field, including wide views and close-up views of parachutes and paratroopers landing. A U.S. Army paratrooper organizes his parachute and equipment immediately after landing. Aerial view of U.S. Navy warships cruising in the Mediterranean Sea. View from inside a U.S. Army helicopter in flight in Vietnam. Soldiers observe terrain out open door. Sign "You are leaving the American Sector" seen at Checkpoint Charlie of the Berlin Wall separating West Berlin and East Berlin. American and Soviet soldiers seen on each side of the checkpoint. An American tank parked at the checkpoint. (Vietnam War period).
One of 12 rockets named "Bérénice" being launched from a French island Île du Levant (Le Levant) on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Distant views of people sunbathing, some are topless or in the nude, on rock outcroppings near the beach. Engineers and scientists work in a French national study and research center for aeronautics on the other side of the island (O.N.E.R.A. (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales). Missile 'Berenice' being prepared for launch. It will be used to measure kinetic heat upon its reentry into the atmosphere. Men work on panels in mission control center and look through a telescope. Missile being launched. A woman in bikini walks with a dog.