U.S. Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, under siege by North Vietnam Army forces during the Vietnam War. Several 105mm towed howitzers are positioned atop the base, with barrels at high elevations. Camera focuses on Gunners loading and firing one. The wind is blowing very hard, complicating their activity and causing the cameraman trouble too, as it buffets his camera. The camera views several guns operating in the battery. The Battery then level their guns to fire point blank at their targets. (They also increase their powder charge to 7, the maximum.) the resultant recoil strikes and injures SP/4 Bowing of a gun crew, who falls and is seen lying at the back of his gun. The crew calls for help and carries him to the ground. Cameraman stops filming briefly.. Next, a soldier is seen leaning over SP/4 Bowing, rendering aid.
The bow ot the French antarctic exploration vessel, "Pourquoi Pas?" is seen as it makes way in antarctic waters. Ice floes are all around. The occasion is the second French Antiarctic expedition headed by explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
U.S. amphibious landings following L-Day in Okinawa. View of a destroyer underway heading for Okinawa. A small sailboat passes by in the foreground. U.S. 6th Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Marines aboard LST-952 (Landing Ship Tank). Marines clean bayonets, moving around on deck of ship. Deck crowded with men.
The 42nd National Automobile Show at the New York Coliseum (present day site of Time Warner Center. 10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019, United States), December 8-16, 1956. A sign above an escalator at the entrance reads 'National Automobile Show'. A model wearing a swimsuit seated on the hood of a 1957 Desoto convertible. Two women seated in a 1957 Chrysler 300C. Aerial view of the Buick exhibit, with the 1957 Buick Roadmaster Convertible prominently displayed. An executive version of the 1957 Cadillac features a typewriter in the back seat and a record player in the front dash. Auto executives gathered at a display featuring a row of steering wheels. President of Chrysler Lester Lum Colbert hails the future in a statement.
American troops invasion force group in large numbers in tent area. General Dwight D. Eisenhower walks and talks among the paratroopers and soldiers on the evening before the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. Allied Invasion troops march onto landing craft. LST (Landing Ship Tank) loaded with soldiers. Normandy beaches: fires are burning and smoke is seen along coastline. Troops walk down gangplank into water of Normandy beaches on D-Day. Formation of USAF Boeing B-17s Flying Fortress in flight. Top turret of B-17, large formation of B-17s in the background. German Me 262 aircraft in flight, plane descends toward earth. B-17 bomber going down, engines on fire.
Opening scene behind introductory writing, shows U.S. troops climbing down from a landing craft and walking towards a beach during Normandy invasion of World war 2. Date is D-Day +3 (June 9, 1944) and allies are setting up logistic resupply operations. Views across beach at extreme low tide. A cluster of DUKW amphibious vehicles sitting on the sand, below some cliffs. Some buildings of the French village of Arromanches-les-Bainsin background. Closeup of a demolished French dwelling at base of cliff. Two U.S. soldiers walk along a road at the waterfront, where steel barriers that have been removed from the beach, are piled up. Closeup of the steel barriers. An M4 Sherman tank, equipped with deep wading gear is seen mired in the sand. A closeup of U.S. Landing Craft Tank (LCT-25) on the beach with an M3A1 Half-Track destroyed on its offramp. It had been hit by shell fire on D-day, setting other half-tracks and the landing craft afire. Closeup of the destroyed halftrack.
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