As film begins, U.S. Marine paratroopers are seen jumping from an R4D (Douglas DC-3) transport aircraft. View of the airplane with Marines parachuting from its cargo door. (The aircraft has "QF"and number 17225 stenciled on its tail, and United states Marines on its fuselage.) A marine descending on opened parachute is seen from below. Narrator describes them as "Pathfinders," to establish landing zones. As they hit the ground, the parachuting marines quickly set up homing devices, electronic signals and markers to guide incoming helicopters. The amphibious assault carrier, USS Princeton (LPH-5) is seen underway at sea, with her deck full of marine helicopters. She is accompanied by a transport ship. Closeups of the carrier and helicopters, from low flying helicopter overhead (unseen). Scene shifts to pilots being briefed aboard the ship. Marines in battle dress on the carrier flight deck. They double-time and board their assigned Sikorsky H-34 helicopters. View from inside a helicopter as marines board it. View from helicopter flying above those on flight deck shows those below with their engines running. Deck crew directs launching of the choppers. The H-34s are followed by Sikorsky H-56 helicopters carrying heavy equipment. Several views of them flying near the ship. Formation of helicopters in flight en route to landing areas. Helicopters heading to the beach and landing in formation. Closeup of them landing and marines moving quickly to exit and take up their positions ashore. An artillery piece suspended from a helicopter, being lowered to the ground. A number of views of marines and equipment deploying from helicopters. Scene shifts to landing craft in formation approaching the beach. Explosion occurs on shore.
Rector Professor Leo Aryeh Mayer working inside his office at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Givat Ram Campus Jerusalem 91904 Israel). The office of Professor Leo Aryeh Mayer, Rector of the University. Mayer is the Professor of Art and Archaeology in the Middle East. Administrator of the University Dr. D. W. Senator and Registrar Mr. Ibn Sahaw arrive in the office to confer with the rector. The Rector talks to the Administrator.
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Pilots Hank Urban, D.C.Anderson, W.G. Sizemore, and Mike Welch of VF-51 prepare for takeoff. Signal man provides signals. (Vietnam War period.)
A United States Navy documentary about U.S. 7th Fleet and 1st Marine Division in Korea during the Korean War. USS Missouri (BB-63) battleship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Guns mounted on the battleship. Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, 7th Fleet Commander, looks through binoculars. U.S. aircraft on the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier. Pilots are briefed. Napalm bombs are attached to aircraft. Message "To whom it may concern" written on a bomb. The aircraft taxis on the flight deck and takes off. A Sikorsky H-5 Dragonfly patrol helicopter hovers in the sky in the background. It rescues a pilot who had to ditch his aircraft and hauls him upward to safety in the helicopter. Other aircraft in flight overhead. Aerial views of U.S. Navy A-1 Skyraider aircraft in flight, and views of pilots inside aircraft cockpits.
Views of the Chateau of Franc-port located close to the forest at Rethondes, near the town of Compiègne, where the German delegation was lodged during the World War 1armistice negotiations. On November 8, 1918, a steam locomotive pulls Marshal Foch's train through the railroad station in Compiègne, on the way to the armistice negotiations. Later, on November 11, 1918, after the Armistice is signed, the train is seen as it returns and slows to a stop at the station, in Compiègne. The train bears the name: " Compagnie Internationale Des Wagon-Lits Et Des Grands Express Europeens." Several cars of the train are seen close up, including the voiture-restaurant and dining car number 2419 D, in which the armistice was actually signed. Several French soldiers are seen inside the train, and looking out its windows. A large group of French troops pose and celebrate in front of the train, parked in the station.
Suggestions being given to U.S. servicemen to be assigned to posts in Great Britain. U.S. Officer walking with a woman in a park. U.S. Airmen visit shrine with statues of British literary figures, including those of John Milton, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth and William Shakespeare. View of British Houses of Parliament. Big Ben clock tower at Parliament striking. View of a ceremony occurring at the Standing Lincoln statue of Abraham Lincoln, at Parliament Square, Canning Green, in London, England. Unveiling of Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Statue at Grosvenor Square in London England on April 12, 1948.
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