U.S. 79th Division replacement pool in Luneville, France during World War 2. Men of the 2nd Battalion, 313th Infantry Regiment wait in a courtyard for trucks to transport them to their newly assigned organizations. They are checked by a sergeant. The soldiers board the trucks.
The 24th General Hospital in Florence, Italy, during World War 2. Interiors of the Serology section. Histological section of hospital in the foreground. A man works in chemical section of the laboratory. Enlisted Army soldiers at work perform chemical analysis. Bacteriological section in the hospital. Technicians work in Pathology and Veterinary sections of the hospital. Technicians perform tests. Serology section of the hospital. Exteriors of the 2nd Medical Laboratory. A jeep driver pulls away and another pulls up to door. Men load jeeps with bags. A jeep stops in front of laboratory.
U.S. Navy warships, of the 2nd Fleet, underway during a Fleet Review for President John F. Kennedy, in the Atlantic Ocean. A cruiser underway in one of two columns during the fleet review. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) underway in a review fleet. A cruiser underway. USS Forrestal (CVA-59) leads one of the columns. A U.S. Navy S2F Tracker aircraft flies low. USS Enterprise (CVN-65) underway. Three United States Navy Sikorsky HSS-1 helicopters in a V formation fly low over water ahead of the column of ships. Sonar balls hang slightly below the fuselages of the helicopters as they prepare to dip. The helicopters hover over water. Ships in review fleet underway. USS Bearss (DD-654) underway with review fleet. USS Remey (DD-688) underway in a column.
Carrier pigeons used by U.S. army to deliver messages in Korea, during Korean War. Three bird containers are put into jeep. A sigh reads '23rd Inf Regt, 2nd Div Second to none'. S-2 and S-3 tent. Men at tables write. Men write message in tent. Bird handler gets message,folds it and starts for bird. He folds message. He removes bird from container ans puts the message in capsule attached to bird's leg. He releases the bird. The bird flies off. The man takes a bird out of another box,folds message and puts it in capsule.
Fallen U.S. marines lying on the beach and floating in the waters of Betio, Tarawa atoll, after the amphibious assault by 2nd Marine Division during World War 2. Flag draped coffin of a marine carried on deck of a transport ship where chaplains conduct funeral service for burial at sea. Marine honor guard fires salute as others salute.
U.S. 2nd Division Marines process about 10 Japanese soldiers taken prisoner on Betio, Tarawa atoll, during the battle there in World War 2. They cut away the prisoners' clothing to assure they don't carry weapons or explosives. (Narrator states they were later given replacement clothing from captured supplies.) Marines tend to a wounded Japanese prisoner. Japanese prisoners carrying their own wounded to a pier for evacuation. Marines cleaning up using water from captured Japanese steel barrels. Marines stand on fortifcations containing British Vickers BL 15 inch Mark I coastal defense guns captured by the Japanese in Singapore. These were knocked out by U.S. naval gunfire during the pre-assault bombardment. Closeup of one breech of a gun. A knocked out Japanese light tank at the South side of Japanese Rear Admiral Shibasaki's headquarters on Betio. (Shibasaki, commander of the Japanese forces there, was reportedly killed by U.S. Naval gunfire early in the assault.) Panning view of the remains of the reinforced concrete Japanese headquarters structure. U.S. Seabees using power shovel, dump trucks, graders, and heavy rollers, to restore the airfield for U.S. operations.
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