Japanese-American recruits at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. Company 2nd Infantry Combat Team. Combat team gets training to dig trenches with advanced equipment. They get field training of obstacle run. Team jumps over pole, crosses the ditch, crawls down the tunnel, jumps over trench, crosses 8 foot wall and crawls down the tunnel. Soldiers march past 20 miles in less then 4 hours. (World War II period).
Japanese-American recruits at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. Company 2nd Infantry Combat Team. Combat team gets together on Sunday, sits and some soldiers play trumpet. Soldiers sing prayers with book in their hand while others listen. Priest speaks to the soldiers (World War II period).
Tactical Communications, Operation Junction City at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action. Two soldiers sit in dense bushes. A soldier sits and checks aerial photos with maps. Soldiers rest and walk as they wait for helicopter. Soldiers draped with ammunition belts sit on ground. A soldier carries rifle. Officer speaks. Soldier raises his hand. Officer looks into paper. Soldiers fire with rifle. (Vietnam War period).
Tactical Communications, Operation Junction City at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action. Wounded soldiers wait for medical helicopter to be evacuated. Soldiers sit in foxhole. Other soldiers crawl as they come under enemy fire. Officer speaks over PRC-25 radio. Soldiers set up a screen of fire with M-16 rifles into jungle. Soldier with jammed M-16 rifle. Another soldier comes to help him. Soldiers fire 81mm mortar. Soldiers with M-16 rifle ready to fire in bush. (Vietnam War period).
Views inside the Strategic Air Command Headquarters Command and Control Center at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska. Six huge display screens cover the wall and controllers at monitoring stations are seen in semi-dark environment. An Air force Senior Master Sergeant stands near one of the control stations, as he calls up various computer-driven displays, which are shown onmonitors depicting the distribution and status of SAC's world wide assets at any moment. An Air Force Colonel occupies the Senior Controller's position on the main floor of the Command Post. Camera focuses on the Colonel, and his "fruit salad" (rows of military ribbons); his Command Pilot's wings; and the eagle's on the shoulders of his uniform. Scene shifts to variety of telephones in different colors. Looking over the shoulder of the Colonel, the camera focuses on a gold phone providing a direct line to the President of the United States; the National Military Command Center in Washington, DC; and to other Major Command Headquarters. Red and Gray phones comprise SACs primary alert system and show numerous connections to sites in the 2nd and 15th Air Forces. Closeup of the red phone control board. Scene shifts to a B-52 bomber in flight, and to pilots in a B-52 cockpit. The SAC Senior Controller, Colonel, on the gray phone, ostensibly talking to the B-52 pilots.
U.S. General Officers planning for the U.S. Army 101st Air Cavalry Division's Operation Somerset Plain ( A Search and Destroy Mission to prevent North Vietnam Army elements from reentering the A Shau Valley, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam). U.S. Officers including Major General Melvin Zais, Brigadier General John, S Lekson, Marine Major General C B Drake discussing a map with Lieutenant Colonel Daniel G. Sharp, Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, 502 Infantry Regiment. August,1968. (Vietnam War period).
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