Training exercise and demonstration by the Royal Scots Greys and 2nd Dragoons cavalry in the UK. Bugler sounds an alarm. The cavalry respond. They ride their horses on steep cliffs and over difficult terrain. They cross a 10 foot deep river with strong currents in which their mounts must swim. On the other side, they join with other elements riding through woods.
Views of industrial development projects and activities during first 5-year plan under Joseph Stalin in Soviet Union. Mining activities, with ore being moved on conveyor belts and open rail cars. view upwards toward piping and towers in a petroleum refining plant. Steel plant and open hearth furnace. Turbine deck in a hydroelectric power plant. Electric transmission lines. Farmer irrigating crops with machinery. Workers shoveling grain out of open bed trucks. Apartment houses under construction. A machinist turning metal on a lathe. Factory workers in a room with pictures of Lenin and Stalin on the wall. Freight trains underway (ostensibly to Siberia). Officials visiting a machine shop, during the 2nd Five Year Plan, in 1935. They present worker's medals to Stakhanovites (superior workers). Views of Stakhanovites conversing and comparing medals at a presentation occasion. View of criminal (political) proceedings conducted in the Great Purge (Yezhovshchina) during 1937-38. Photograph of N.I. Yezhov (called Stalin's executioner, by the narrator). Picture of Stalin walking with Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lev Kamenev, and Gregory Zinoviev, Ca. 1925. The latter two images are circled as narrator says they were quickly disposed of after Stalin seized power. View of trials in which persons are accused of plotting with Leon Trotsky, in 1936, at the Hotel Bristol, in Copenhagen (according to narrator, who notes that the hotel was no longer in operation in 1936). More trial scenes. Image of N.I. Yezhov is shown, again, as narrator states that he was purged in 1938, along with other officials.
United States soldiers in Wiesbaden, Germany during World War II. A sign board on a bridge reads "Dedicated to the 3rd Army Officers." Military trucks pass by on the bridge. "Highest, Widest, Longest, fixed Military Bridge of the world made by the 2nd Battalion of the 1303 Engineers" written on a board.
Animated map shows Saipan, Marian Islands. Animation shows U.S. forces acquiring the island from the Japanese during World War II. Advancement of Task Force 56. The 77th Infantry Division at Oahu. The 2nd and 4th Marine Division land on the island on the orders of a United States General. Animation shows the 37th Division troops landing on a beachhead from ships.
U.S. forces battle against the enemy on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. The 4th Marine Division advances on the eastern side of Saipan. Marines fire rifles. The 2nd Marine Division fires at enemy snipers. The 8th Marine Regiment advances amidst heavy firing. A Marine M3 Stuart (M3A1) light tank equipped with flamethrower (Satan flame tank) is seen in action. Marines moving slowly behind a tank. Two marines running, under fire, carrying a wounded on a stretcher. Others run for cover before a huge explosion. The 8th Marines capturing Mount Tapochau. The 4th Division moving M16 rocket launchers into position for deployment. barrages of rockets striking distant targets in the Bluff Point area. Closeup of rockets being fired from launcher on back of a truck. Map showing Saipan and the disposition of the various Marine units as of 24 June, 1944. American P-47 aircraft parked at Aslito airfield. One has the name "Rosemary" painted across its engine cowling. P-47s taking off on 26 June, to strike at Tinian. A Grumman TBF Avenger is seen taking off at the same time. Another status map shows improved U.S. positions.
Re-enactment, some time after the actual event, of actions taken in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 2nd through 5th, 1964, aboard the USS Turner Joy (DD-951). Two crew members, wearing headsets,monitor radar screen and report their obervations on intercom. At another location, two officers and a sailor monitor another radar screen and converse on the interphone.
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