Tactical Communications, Operation Junction city at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action in Vietnam War. Soldiers wait to board helicopter. Radio equipment on the ground. Radio operators check their PRC-25 radios. A large group of U.S. Army soldiers rests, with many seated on the ground, as they wait for the arrival of helicopters. Yellow smoke arises from signal grenade in the background. Formation of five UH-1D helicopters seen approaching overhead toward camera position, and then landing. Some of the soldiers load into the helicopters and they took off in turn. Some of the soldiers remain seated near the landing zone, holding their helmets and gear down as the wind and dust from the propellers fills the air. Soldiers board the helicopter and they take off.
U.S. 47th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Battalion troops in Binh Phuoc, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. American troops carry M16 rifles, M60 machine guns, field radios and belts of machine gun ammunition as they walk in a single file through rice paddies. United States Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopters fly overhead in a formation. The helicopters land and take off. A soldier looks at a map while another talks over field telephone. Soldiers walk in a field.
U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade in South Vietnam during Operation Big Spring of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter lands. Crates stacked on the airfield. Loading and unloading of equipment from the helicopter. Soldiers talk. A soldier reads a newspaper. Empty water cans are thrown out and supplies are loaded aboard the helicopter.
U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower inspects soldiers in the European Theater. During World War II. General Eisenhower and U.S. Army General Omar Bradley visit the front. Buildings along the sides of a street. They stop at Command Posts of 8th Division, 2nd Division, 9th Division, 28th Division and 46th Infantry Battalion, 5th Armored Division. Soldiers standing outside a building. Eisenhower inspects the soldiers. Eisenhower comes out of the building with officers. General Eisenhower speaks with Division Commanders. Major General Walter M Robertson, Major General Louis A Craig, Major General Norman D Cota and Major General Lunsford E Oliver present. Eisenhower shakes hands with the soldiers.
Brigadier General Merritt Austin Edson, Assistant Commander of the 2d Marine Division looks through binoculars on Saipan, in World War 2. After surveying the battlefield, he discusses the situation with his staff officers. Marine gunners manning an M101, 105mm howitzer, under camouflage netting. They rapid- fire the howitzer. Numerous shells striking and Smoke drifting across the battlefield.
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt warns of an increasing danger of armed conflict (increasing danger of war leading up to World War 2). Roosevelt's motorcade on the streets of Chicago. A large crowd gathered to get a glimpse of the President. Confetti rained on the motorcade. Soldiers salute as the motorcade passes by. Policemen on motorbikes lead the motorcade. People gathered at the venue to hear the President's speech. A board advertises candy bars 'Baby Ruth, Butterfinger" in the background. President Roosevelt with officials on stage. He addresses the crowd. Excerpts from his speech are interspersed with scenes of war and conflict elsewhere in the world during the late 1930's. Roosevelt speaks of recent events of "international lawlessness" including in the last few years "unjustified interference in the internal affairs of other nations." Scenes that follow include aerial bombings, naval attacks, and war: Scenes of war carnage during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936: Ethiopian soldiers on horseback cross a bridge, Italian forces fire artillery from a hill, aerial view as aircraft drop bombs. Italian soldiers pass a burning, smoldering building and overtake an Ethiopian position, with many Ethiopian soldiers lying dead. Ethiopian citizens in area of a war torn village. Bomb damage and war casualties on the street. Italian soldiers collect dead bodies and load them onto a truck. A ship quickly sinking after attack by a submarine. Scenes from battle during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 or 1937. Spanish nationalist and rebel soldiers engage in a battle in a village. Spanish prisoners are marched. Nationalist soldier fires machine gun from a balcony emplacement. Dead body on a road. Soldiers behind a barricade fire at opposition and carry wounded on stretchers. President Roosevelt concludes his speech with, "America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace." People applaud.
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