Members of the Japan ground self defense force at Rumoi, Hokkaido in Japan for ski training. Ski troops go carrying ski equipment in their hands. Dog seen with troops. Steam locomotive train arrives. Ski troops board railroad train. Smoke emits from engine. Train leaves. Ski troops receive training for wearing ski gear. Ski troops in sliding actions. Snow covered mountains in the background. Ski troops practice traveling on the hill carrying machine guns. They travel straight down the hill. They dig the ice and set up mortars. Ski infantry rifles are wrapped in white cloth. Brigadier General Ned D. Moore, Chief of the army section of United States Military Advisory Group, talks about training of selected Japanese officers, in the United States. Japan ground self defense forces march in parade.
Camouflaged Douglas C-47 Skytrain, military transport lands at air strip. Camouflaged USAF C-130E landing. Douglas A-1H Skyraiders taxi at runway for takeoff. VNAF F-5As start landing. U.S. army U-8D lands. North American Jet Fighter aircraft F-100Ds land. (Vietnam War period).
Aircraft land at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Camouflaged Douglas C-47 Skytrain military transport taxis and makes take off run. Cessna O-1E lands. Camouflaged USAF C-130E lands. VNAF F-5A lands. North American Jet Fighter aircraft F-100Ds makes take off runs. U.S. army U-8D lands. North American Jet Fighter aircraft F-100Ds land. View of USAF C-7A landing. USAF DC-130A lands. (Vietnam War period).
United States Air Force Colonel Richard C Catledge visits the alert facility at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. F-100 parked on the ground at Air Base. Colonel Catledge walks past camouflaged F-100D. He salutes a security guard and enters ready room. Sign of 'F-100 Alert Facility Air Crew'. Colonel Catledge enters into the ready room and talks with pilots of 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing. Colonel Catledge seated at desk speaks. A pilot writes down on notepad and another pilot reads newspaper. (Vietnam War period).
34th Tactical Group increases precautionary measures and aircraft buildup due to Viet Cong attacks at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Aerial View of Bien Hoa Air Base showing compound area and aircraft on flight line. Aircraft include VNAF A-1E's, VNAF A-1H's, Douglas C-47 Skytrains, B-57C's, UH-1D's and C-133A (Vietnam War period).
Sign over American Embassy in China. Colonel William Mayer, former military attache in that embassy relates events precipitating Second Sino-Japanese war. Scenes of the Marco Polo bridge near Peking, on night of July 7, 1937, as Japanese artillery bombards the area. Animated map shows movement of Japanese forces out of Manchuria to occupy Peiping and Tientsin. Victorious Japanese troops stand atop a building, raising their flags and shouting cries of victory. Japanese army officers sit around a table smiling and contended and others walk in a group. Chinese artillery crews are seen retaliating as they fire field pieces at Japanese positions in Shanghai. Shells explode in background, and Chinese infantry advance through damaged buildings and rubble. Animated map shows Shanghai and other cities, and film transitions to view of the bustling city of Shanghai on the Yangtze River. In the seaport, large ocean liners and freighters, as well as tug boats and Junks, are seen. What looks like a Japanese Tachikawa Ki.54 Type 1 transport plane takes off over a Chinese pagoda. Double-decker buses travel through the streets. Rickshaws are also seen. Map outlines the foreign residential areas of the French Concession and the International Settlement. American, British and Japanese flags are shown in the International Settlement. Detachments of troops from Japan, Britain, France, and United States Marines are seen. A U.S. Marine is posted as a sentry at the Shanghai Power Company. Coolies carry heavy bucket on a long pole. British, French and Japanese troops also performed sentry duties. Japanese troops and armored cars are seen. A scuffle breaks out in August, 1937, and Japanese soldiers start moving in trucks, take up firing positions, and begin firing guns from their armored cars. Map shows Chinese counterattack pushing the Japanese contingent toward the Khangpoo River. Next it shows Japanese warships and reinforcements in the Yangtze River and their advance toward Woosung and Shanghai. Views of Japanese warships bombarding the shore and large explosions from their striking shells. Beachhead is shown South of Shanghai, where two divisions of Japanese infantry are seen arriving in landing craft. They advance across the fields toward Shanghai. Map shows Chinese withdrawals to West and South, toward Nanking and Hangchow. Chinese medics along with infantry march in retreat. Japanese pilots are seen being briefed. Next, Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are seen in flight, and bombardiers and other crew in them. Bombs falling on the city. Civilians running for cover as bombs explode. Aichi D3A1 aircraft dropping bombs. The Shanghai waterfront being bombed and civilians running.
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