Re-enactment of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident , August 2nd -5th, 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Lieutenant Commander Brumbaugh boards a U.S. Navy A-1H Skyraider aircraft. He climbs into the cockpit. The plane captain, ADRAN Andy Kolesar, comes up onto the wing of the aircraft. He hands the pilot his helmet and assists him with his shoulder harness. Aviation ordnance men, AOAN Carl Collier and AO3 Ron Colaw, work underneath the aircraft. A 1000 pound bomb is hooked up under the undercarriage of the aircraft.
Near the end of 2nd World War in Germany, American troops are seen in the Salt Mines at Merkers, Germany. They examine gold bars. Another American soldier opens up a suitcase filled with silver articles. Many suitcases filled with seized and stolen silver articles such as silverware cutlery and silver boxes, confiscated by German Schutzstaffel (SS) troops.
U.S. Army General Lutz Wahl receives the armistice news in France at the end of World War I. Gen. Wahl receives the armistice signed in a railroad car parked in a French forest near the front lines. General Wahl reads the armistice as the troops gather around him, smiling. Close up view of the signed armistice notification received from U.S. 2nd Army Headquarters.
German soldiers in France during the Battle of Villers-Bocage of World War 2. A pictorial map showing cities along French coastline. A German soldier looking through binoculars. Allied ships at sea. German soldiers prepare artillery and fire. Smoke rising from explosions. German soldiers beside artillery. Smoke rising from Allied vessels at sea. Explosions on land and smoke rising. Two German soldiers talking. A wrecked landing craft at a beach. Debris of wreckage spread on the beach. A bomb wrecked U.S. LST (Landing Ship, Tank) on the beach and armored vehicles aboard the ship. Vehicles moving along a road. recked British Cromwell tanks and M3 Halftracks along the side of a road. A German soldier beside a damaged tank. Wide shot of a Stuart light tank. A damaged signboard which reads 'Villers Bocage'. Damaged buildings on the street of Villers-Bocage and a wrecked Tiger tank beside the buildings. Debris strewn on the ground and a damaged tank among the debris. A damaged tank with its front part into a building. A British helmet in the debris on a Cromwell tank. (Note: During this battle, On June 13th, 1944, German tank commander, Michael Wittmann, in a single Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger tank reportedly destroyed up to 14 tanks and 15 personnel carriers along with 2 anti-tank guns. Many were of the British 22nd Armored Brigade of the 7th Armored Division, AKA the 'Desert Rats'.)
The Peleliu operation in Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Three U.S. marines gather around a foxhole. One of the marines fires a pistol into the foxhole. A marine rifleman fires into a Japanese pillbox. A marine uses a flame thrower on it as a result of which it burns. The flame thrower shoots flame into the pillbox. U.S. 2nd Battalion 5th Marines go inside it and bring out equipment. The marines inspect the gear which they found in the pillbox. Tents of United States 1st Marine Division. Tables and chairs inside the tent.
A film about missile launches in the United States. U.S. Army 2nd Missile Battalion of 44th Artillery conducts a test under simulated operational conditions. A mobile launcher and support equipment mounted on a half truck moves over a scrub land at Cape Canaveral. A Pershing missile being erected at a firing site. Personnel go through a countdown and check out the missile launch. Tracking of the Pershing missile. The missile being launched.
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