Opening scene shows Chiang Kai-Shek standing next to U.S. Vice Admiral Thomas Moorer aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Constellation. They are both saluting, as are other officers at various positions on the flight deck. Next, Admiral Moorer is seen standing next to Madame Chang Kai-Shek as officers are still seen saluting on the flight deck. Closeup of a Navy Captain standing with Madam Chiang Kai-Shek next to a USMC HMM-163 Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse helicopter. She holds a parasol matching her blue outfit. Officers on the flight deck are still saluting in military ceremony. Vice Admiral Moorer and other senior U.S.Naval officers stand and salute with Chiang Kai-shek and a military aide. Another view of ship's company saluting on the flight deck. A brass band of sailors is assembled near the ship's island, in front of a Douglas A-3 Sky warrior aircraft. Camera pans across the flight deck where Admiral Moorer and Chiang Kai-Chek are saluting in a flag ceremony. Numerous other officers are also participating. Chiang Kai-Shek walks through a line of U.S. sailors on a cursory inspection. Next, his aide helps him to don a life vest, and Admiral Moorer shakes hands with him and salutes as he sees him off, boarding the marine UH-34D helicopter. The helicopter takes off. Admiral Moorer strolls along the flight deck with Madam Chiang Kai-Shek, while an attendant shields her from the sun with her parasol. The formal ceremonies having finished, Officers stroll the flight deck and observe a Terrier Missile being raised into firing position from below the flight deck. Republic of China officials, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, walk about,l informally across the ship's deck. They then ride an elevator section of the deck down to another part of the carrier. Officers pose, lined up in front of a line of A-3 Sky warrier aircraft with wings folded. The Marine helicopter returns and lands, bringing Chiang Kai-Shek back on the Constellation, where he is formally greeted, again. He inspects a Marine guard of honor.
Operation Thayer II by First Air Cavalry Division of United States Army in Ankhe, South Vietnam. UH-1D helicopters lands one after the other in rice paddy near a river. Pilots and soldiers stand near the UH-1D copter talk among the group. U.S. soldiers alert in jungle and huts nearby, keep watch for any enemy movement. A burning hut in jungle. High grasslands, swamps in the jungle. A medic treats wound on thigh of a soldier. (Vietnam War period).
Operation Thayer II by First Air Cavalry Division of United States Army in Ankhe, South Vietnam. UH-1D helicopter comes down on rice paddy. Soldiers and Vietnamese interpreter climb on it. Soldiers between rice paddies filled with water. UH-1D helicopter lands, its Pilots talk looking at its damaged fuel tank. Another soldier loads rockets into the pod of a helicopter. (Vietnam War period).
Operation Thayer II by First Air Cavalry Division of United States Army in Ankhe, South Vietnam. Patrolling team of soldiers in rice paddies watch a UH-1D helicopter flying. Medic treats injuries of an old Vietcong suspect. Soldiers discover uniform and blankets of U.S. soldiers in a village. A soldier in waist deep water of swamp, another soldier pulls him out. UH-1D helicopter patrols over a river and rice paddies. (Vietnam War period).
Hard times in the Great Depression led to formation of The Bonus Army. American veterans of World War 1 march on streets of Washington DC, carrying a large poster demanding immediate cash redemption their "bonus" service certificates awarded by Congress in 1924 (but not lawfully payable until 1945). Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered by President Hoover, to clear the Bonus Army encampments, is seen standing in a street surrounded by several U.S. Army troops. People watch from sidewalks as a contingent of U.S. Army cavalry rides down the street. U.S. Army M-1917 tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in July 1932. Bonus marchers and others watch from Lafayette Park in background. Scene shifts to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago Stadium, Chicago, where delegates cheer after nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as their Presidential candidate. Roosevelt seen waving from the podium. Migrant farm workers seen at temporary, dilapidated dwellings in close quarters, and sitting at a campfire, some with sad and desperate faces. Migrant farm workers' cars on the road, piled high with family belongings during westward migration. Migrants riding atop an open railroad freight car. Two men share a copy of the "Epic News" newspaper (published by supporters of Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty Movement in Los Angeles and central California). Narrator describes programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Construction workers ignite demolition charges during construction of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam and officially so-named in 1947). Glimpse of President Roosevelt at the site in an open car, for its dedication on September 30, 1935. Construction workers engaged in building the dam. Another shot of President Roosevelt in his open car. Towers being erected to carry electric power from the dam's hydroelectric generators. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling broadly at the formal dedication ceremony, September 30, 1935. Controlled discharges of water through the dam. Views of the Boulder Dam hydroelectric generating station. Oil well rigs or oil derricks at work during construction at night. People at work in fabric mills or textile mills, and in a print shop
United States UH-1D helicopter flies over a beach and coastline in Vietnam. Soldiers of 3rd Brigade of 25th Infantry Division take cover at prone positions, behind sand mounds as they come under heavy enemy firing during Operation Baker. UH-1D helicopters land and soldiers run across the sandy field. Soldiers with a sentry dog move across the field. Two M-48 tanks in position at tree line. (Vietnam War period).
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