Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. A Cuban Air Force B-26 aircraft in Cuba. Cuban pilots participated in revolt and then take refuge in Florida. Pilot surrounded by a large number of people. In Havana the acting Foreign Minister shows fragments of shells to the diplomats. The United Nations conference. Cuban Foreign Minister accuses U.S. of committing aggression against Cuba. U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Adlai Stevenson, denies the charges. Training site in Guatemalan foothills where Cuban rebels allegedly were trained. Soldiers with their guns. More troops train. Fidel Castro addresses a large crowd of people.
U.S. 3rd Army under Lieutenant General Patton in World War 2. Tanks roll down. U.S. Army soldiers and tanks of the 3rd Army move forward. General Patton looks through binoculars. Patton with other officers. Soldiers fire artillery. A soldier talks into a radio. Patton's troops move forward. Enemy soldiers surrender. Tanks and troops move forward. Soldiers aim and fire. Soldiers in the streets of Saint Malo. German soldiers taken as prisoners of war (POW). Civilians cheer and welcome the American troops. Soldier drinks from cups. A sign reads 'Mayenne'. Troops move towards Germany fighting on their way. Soldiers move through the forest terrain. Patton with his officers. The 3rd Army crosses river Siene. Patton in an aircraft. The planes of the 8th Army Air Force drop bombs on the enemy positions. Tanks fire artillery. Patton with soldiers. Trucks move forward. Headlights of trucks moving forward at the night. Patton comes out of a building and sits in a jeep. Army officers including General Eisenhower and Patton have dinner. Patton with soldiers. Soldiers of the 3rd Army load and fire artillery and capture Metz. Fighting house to house and in the streets of Metz. Dead soldiers lay on the ground. German soldiers taken as prisoners of war. American flag is raised. The battle of Bulge- Soldiers on the snow covered terrain of Ardennes. Patton's 3rd Army moves toward Bastogne. U.S. Army soldiers remove snow from ground in the icy winds. A soldier looks up into the clear sky after snow storms have passed. Aerial view of U.S. Army Air Force Mitchell B-25 bomber aircraft in formation and bombs away views as they drop bombs on snow covered German held positions below. U.S. Army tanks firing at German enemy positions. close up views and point of view shots of American soldiers firing rifles and machine guns. German prisoners are rounded up by U.S. Army, including some German soldiers wounded and bandaged. Patton decorates soldiers at a bridge over the Sauer River. in Germany, where a sign says "General Patton Bridge - built by the Mighty Midgets. Company F, 1303 Engineers" (Narrator in clip is Ronald Reagan).
The Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens (2B Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) in Saigon, Vietnam. Monkeys in cages. Asiatic Black Bears play on and around logs in their cages. People in the zoo. Men, women, and children on a visit to the zoo. Koi and Goldfish swimming in a pond. A bridge over the pond. Lotus in the water.
Construction of Integrate Wideband Communication Sites (IWCS) by the U.S. Army in Vietnam. United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) site in Qui Nhon. Huge square antennas and other antennas at the site. A watch tower in the background. A sign reads 'Stratcom Tropospheric Scatter Facility Quinhon Vietnam, OIC NCOIC, Lt. James B Cole.' Large machinery and equipment. Military jeep near a shed. Cycles rest against the buildings. A MRC 85 signal van. The site by the shoreline. Boats off shore. (Vietnam War period).
Opening slate reads: "Cairo and Teheran." A view of the world turning, accompanied by voice of President Franklin Roosevelt broadcasting a Christmas messeage to the Armed Forces in 1943, during World War 2. Glimpses of families and people abroad listening to the President on radio. Views of Moscow and the Kremlin in the Soviet Union. British, American, and Soviet flags on a desktop at the Moscow conference in October, 1942. Camera shows Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov, Anthony Eden and Cordell Hull signing documents and then shaking hands. View of great pyramid of Cheops and the Sphinx. Closeup of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek at the Cairo Conference. Wider view of them with their respective military Commanders standing behind them. A view showing Madam Chian Kai-Shek seated near and conversing with Winston Churchill. Animated map of China. Illustration of a book entitled: "The Tanaka Memorial." Warships firing their guns. U.S. Marines in Landing Vehicles Tracked on amphibious assault of a Pacific island. Marines ashore in combat. More views of U.S. Navy ships bombarding Japanese-held islands and of U.S. forces in amphious assaults. Glimpses of fighting in jungles. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PB4Y-2S Privateer aircraft in flight. Bombs dropping from aircraft. Australian and New Zealand forces firing artillery in jungles. Dutch soldiers in a landing ship. British soldiers in a landing craft. Australian soldiers moving onto an island. At TC:03:38, a flight of three Flying Tiger P-40 airplanes are seen flying in fornation. Geralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek walks among Chinese soldiers. American Flying Tiger pilots walk toward their P-40 airplanes parked in line on a ramp. One taxiis out for takeoff. A B-17 bomber taking off from a foreign airfield. Closeup of General George Marshall with General Douglas MacArthur. Admiral Nimitz conversing with U.S. officers on a captured Japanese Island.
King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia during a visit to Washington DC. A Saudi broadcaster describes events in Arabic. United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and King Faisal with other dignitaries in a conference. King Faisal arrives at the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, where Saudi and American flags fly. He is greeted by the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel, and the embassy staff. The King receives guests at the embassy, including William Averell Harriman, an American diplomat and 48th Governor of New York. Ambassador Al Suwaiyel accompanies King Faisal in greeting the guests. Guests are identified by narrator in Arabic. President Johnson arrives by car and is greeted and escorted into the embassy. Orchestra plays "Hail to the Chief." President Johnson mingles with guests, accompanied by King Faisal. The King greets succession of arriving guests, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Mrs. Rusk, and Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Guests enjoy a sumptuous buffet. A cake made in the shape of an Arab mosque. An Arabian golden bird ornament beside plates of canapé.
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