Millions of Chinese people migrating west and invoking a "scorched earth" policy to slow advance of Japanese forces invading from Shanghai and Nanking, during the second Sino-Japanese war. Long line of Chinese refugees making the trek on foot and transporting their belongings on hand-pulled carts. Chinese entering a library, a school, and a hospital to salvage contents and take them west. Chinese people pulling amazing large loads on carts. Narrator says they salvaged hundreds of millions of pounds of machinery from factories. Trucks and oxen being employed to move goods and equipment on a two thousand mile journey westward. A huge crowd of refugees gathered along a railroad, all rise up from the ground as a steam locomotive appears in the distance. Closeup of Chinese people climbing into rail cars. A glimpse of some intrepid travelers climbing atop the cars. Next, the crowd works to dismantle the railroad, placing rails and ties aboard the train for future use and to deprive the Japanese of them. View of the train, moving slowly, with people occupying every imaginable place. Many crowd the front of the locomotive, itself. Scenes of other trains show many persons riding on tarpaulins that have been tied across the tops of rail cars. Some simply sit on the car roofs. Others are Jam-packed together on open air flat cars. Sampans and barges loaded with refugees and supplies are seen moving westward on China's rivers. Closeups of vessels filled with people. Passengers rowing and working to move the boats. Lines of Chinese crewmen pulling their boats upstream through narrow river gorges. Closeups of gangs of men pulling on tow ropes, as men on the boats assist using long poles to push the boats forward. People walking with backpacks. Narrator speaks of 30 million people moving westward. More scenes of the masses of humanity on the trek.
United States Marines in Hue during Tet Offensive of Vietnam War. Marines run through grassy area to join other marines kneeling behind brick wall. Many marines holding M3A1 .45 cal sub machine gun. Marine talks on radio. Marines with M-16 rifles running. Marines walk with Vietnamese civilians. They carrying tube of 81mm mortar walks along dirt road. Jeep moves along road in opposite direction. Marines walk along bridge. Truck moves along bridge. Side of truck reads 'H Co'. The men kneel near 106 recoilless rifle and place shell into tube. Marines prepare to fire 106 RR. Smoke rises from building during battle. 106 mm rifle fired.
United States Marines in battle against Vietcong in Hue during Tet Offensive. Bursts over water. Shrapnel hits water. Several marines sit near brick wall. Marine aims Winchester M-70 30 cal rifle. Many marines run along street toward Viet houses. Marines kneel behind a trailer, and fire M-16 rifles. Marines stand, some marines kneel behind brick wall and look out. Marine talks to his friend and gestures with hands. Marines behind tree point out with hands. They run away from tree. Marines take cover behind a truck. Marine talks into radio. Marines with cover aid another marine to run across dirt road. (Vietnam War period).
Vietnamese civilians walk along road, carrying their belongings. AVRN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers on road. Sign on side of the building reads, 'HUE MACV COMPUND'. Many marines stand and walk in area. Jeeps and trucks near Hue MACV Compound building. The U.S. flag on a building. View above MACV Compound. Trees in area. The U.S. flag and white smoke rises in the background. (Vietnam War, Tet Offensive period).
Parachute supplies dropped by U.S. TBF Avenger aircraft in Okinawa. Marine rifleman looks at TBF aircraft approaching. Two observers watch TBF dropping supplies. Parachutes of different colors are dropped from TBF. Parachutes land. TBF in flight overhead drops more parachute supplies.
Second Inauguration of President Richard Milhous Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew at the U.S. Capitol, Washington DC. Swearing In ceremony at the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administers oath taking of Spiro Agnew as Vice President of United States. Mrs. Agnew stands by him during the oath taking. U.S. Marine band plays after Agnew takes the oath. The U.S. National flag at the capitol building.
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