173rd Assault Helicopter Company (Robin Hoods) patrols in Lai Khe, south Vietnam. Soldiers talk on wireless ratio sets sitting near mud roads. Few soldiers sit near the helicopters. Soldiers talk standing in groups. Soldiers sit near jeeps and rain water in small mud holes. Infantrymen move with their rifles on mud roads. Helicopter with cap and fir of Robin Hood as insignia. Helicopter with yellow stripe on tail, belonging to 162nd Assault Helicopter Company (Vultures) starts its engine. (Background wild track audio includes unrelated sounds of helicopter pilot communications with command.) (Vietnam War period).
Opening scene shows closeup of a member of the U.S. Army First Infantry Division Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol unit (LRRP) wearing a black beret with parachutist's badge. In background,LRRP members watch as an instructor demonstrates how to field strip a Soviet AK-47 assault rifle. Scene shifts to viewpoint of soldiers watching the instructor. Tents are seen in the background. Closeups of instructor show master parachutist badge on his black beret. Scene shifts again to a large sign containing a large painted logo with a picture of a Vietcong in the center, surrounded by images of black berets. The combat infantryman badge is shown at the top and 1st Infantry Division and MACV recondo badges appear at opposite sides of the sign. (Note: LRRP Units were Airborne, Special Forces. The LRRP Unit of the 1st Infantry Division, shown in these scenes, on January 1st, was, at that time, designated: Company F of the 52nd Infantry Regiment.) (Vietnam War period).
A United states destroyer in harbor shells at Japanese positions in Bougainvilie Solomon Island during World War II. Barbed wire barricades on the islands. A soldier looks through binoculars and speaks over a handie talkie to an officer of 132nd Infantry. The officer speaks over a field phone from behind a sandbag mound.
View of beach obstacles which were used to block Allied landing forces on the beaches of France. United States 705th Ordnance soldiers use welding torches to cut up beach obstacles for use as hedgerow cutters. Welders attach hedgerow cutters on M5A1 light tanks. Tank is about to be tested. The hedgerow cutter design came from Sergeant Curtis G. Culin, of the 102nd Reconnaissance Squadron. (World War II period).
Squadron sign '332ND FIS WORLD'S TOP FIGHTER SQUADRON' over doors. Pilot run down stairs. Pilots running through doors and boarding ADC F-102A at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland.
Elevated panorama view, in 1905, from newly constructed Times Building at Broadway and 42nd Street, (Times Square) New York City. Other buildings, streets and traffic on the streets. Woman hanging out wash on roof of nearby building. Church with tall steeple. Public park with serpentine paths. The newly constructed Hippodrome Theater, on 6th Avenue. A small building displays sign reading: "New York Theater."
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