Paul Robert Ignatius, the United States Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) visits USS Shangri La (CV-38) in the Mediterranean Sea. View of Vice Admiral Edward H. Martin being greeted by Capt. Coogan, upon his arrival to the Shangri-La, via helicopter. The group proceeds on down the flight deck. Vice Admiral Martin, Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis, and Capt. Coogan, chatting on the flight deck. View of the honorable Paul R. Ignatius, SECNAV, departing the area of the helicopter on the flight deck. View of the SECNAV being greeted by Rear Admiral Geis, they proceed down the flight deck toward the Marine Honor Guard. The SECNAV stops to receive Honors. Side view of SECNAV receiving Honors, the band playing in the background. The Marine Honor Guard, with SECNAV appearing in the BG inspecting the Marine Honor Guard, along with the 1st. Lt. Terrence D. Brown, United States Marine Corps (USMC), officer in charge of the Marine Detachment. View of SECNAV receiving a 19 gun salute, smoke from guns seen in the far background. SECNAV walks through the rank of sideboys and prepares to depart from the ship. SECNAV receives a souvenir book from Capt. Coogan. Capt. Coogan shakes hand with the SECNAV beside the C-2A Greyhound. View of crewman assisting the SECNAV with a life jacket. SECNAV removes his coat, hands it to the crewman inside the plane, then dons the life jacket.
Opening scene shows Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek seated with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madam Chiang in their Cairo meeting at a residence of the American Ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, on November 25, 1943, during World War 2. Foreign ministers of the countries stand behind their leaders. Closeups of the three Country's leaders. Scene jumps to Teheran, with Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seated on a veranda of the Soviet Embassy. Suddenly scenes of tanks, trucks, and Soviet troops moving on the Eastern front are seen. Some of the troops move by horse-drawn sleighs through the snow. A line of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers taxiing on an airfield. View from a B-17 in flight. View f as a cluster of bombs falls from B-17 and explodes on the ground. Animated map illustrating paths of aircraft attacks against the German Atlantic Wall from England. Landing craft underway in an amphibious assault. Brief view from a ship of a post-war test atomic explosion in the Pacific ocean
Midway class aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) CVA-42 in the Atlantic Ocean. A catapult officer on the flight deck gives a windup as a jet is catapulted. A U.S. Navy HUP-2 Retriever helicopter in flight in the far background. A U.S. Navy F3H Demon aircraft is positioned and catapulted. An airplane director signals another aircraft. The catapult officer gives a go signal as a jet swishes past at a high speed.
Different types of United States and Vietnamese aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A United States Air Force A-1H Skyraider taxis followed by C-46 Commando aircraft. A Fairchild AC-119 taxis. Fairchild AC-119, RF-101C Voodoo, Douglas DC-3, Vietnam Air Force U-6A Beaver, United States Navy S-2D Tracker and USAF C-7A Caribous wait for takeoff. USAF C-141A Starlifter and C-123B Provider take off.
The Arcadia Conference in Washington, DC, during World War 2, from December 22, 1941 to January 14, 1942. American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, are seated in chairs on a portico of the White House. ( Roosevelt wears a black arm band, in mourning for his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who died on September 7, 1941.) Behind them stand representatives from various Allied nations. Scene shifts abruptly to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, June 24, 1942, where Prime Minister Churchill and U.S. Army Brigadier General William C. Lee, ride in back of an open white convertible car to inspect U.S. Army troops at attention in a massive formation. Next, the troops are seen marching. Churchill smoking a cigar is seated on a bench watching as the parade continues, to include soldiers in jeeps, and trucks. Closeup of U.S. Army chief of Staff, General George Marshall, conversing with Prime Minister Churchill. Next, Churchill, accompanied by General Lee, personally inspects Army paratroopers in their jump gear. Among others accompanying him is U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, wearing a pith helmet. Churchill listens on a portable radio, as paratroop commanders in flight give orders for their paratroopers to jump. Formations of U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft are seen overhead, as hundreds of paratroopers jump from them and descend by parachutes. Churchill, seated on a chair, next to General Lee, watches the paratrooper demonstration. Secretary Stimson, sits behind him. British and American officers and soldiers stand behind and watch, as well. Closeup of Churchill with cigar in his mouth, shielding his eyes, with his hands as he watches the demonstration. The second person seated behind Churchill is British Field Marshal Sir John Dill, with his hand on an upright wood support. More views of parachutes floating down into an area of trees, and of more C-47s dropping paratroops from overhead.
Wreckage of U.S. Air Forces P-47D-30, tail number 44-33495, of the 368th Fighter Group, 397th Fighter Squadron in a field, near Munnerstadt, Germany, a month after the end of World War 2, in Europe. Women work around the wreckage, turning hay. Street scene in a nearby small German village. Workers come home from fields. Buildings on either side of the street. Civilians move on an ox cart. Person carries hay in a wooden hand cart. Water running from faucet in the village square. (Reportedly, the pilot of the P-47 was William T. Wright, who was killed in the crash, on April 15, 1945.)
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