View of Church in a French town during Battle of France. A German truck enters a French city. Street sign identifies Merville, France. German Pz.38t and Pz.II tanks cross Somme river in France on a bridge. Early model German StuG III tank destroyer seen firing. A French Char B1 tank is hit and its crew evacuates the tank, with the French soldiers surrendering to German soldiers nearby. (World War II period).
Surrender of the 512th Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion (Schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 512) at Iserlohn, Germany. German tank soldiers stand in formation. Tank Commander Lieutenant Hauptmann Albert Ernst (a Knight's Cross holder) surrenders to an officer of the U.S. Army 99th Infantry Division. German soldier surrendering a Panzerfaust anti-tank weapon. Convoy of trucks loaded with German prisoners. German prisoners of war load into the trucks under supervision of U.S. soldiers. The 512th was equipped with Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B Jagdtiger (Sd. Kfz. 186) Tank Destroyers. (World War II period).
Ground crew uses salvaged materials to construct heavy duty crane at North Field in Guam. The workers use pulley wheels from salvaged navy equipment and parts from planes to build the crane. Tires and construction material are seen. Smaller cranes help in assembling the large crane, which they have name, 'The Apprehender' The designer of the crane observes the work carried out. The crane is tested, and it lifts an entire B-29 Super Fortress and moves it off the runway. The designer of the crane receives cigars and whiskey as payment for winning bets that his crane would work.
Research and field tests during Project SOIAS (Sliding On Ice and Snow). Landing gear of C-125 equipped with skis. C-125 taxis. Interior of the cockpit. C-125 and C-125 B land. Navion Plane lands. Meal prepared on the frozen lake. Mechanics work on aircraft and refuel it. C-125 and Navion plane taxi in the background. Navion aircraft flies-by.
Vietcong damage at Bienhoa Air base. Smoking rubble of a completely destroyed rubble. Jet engine of B-57 aircraft damaged. Ripped out section extends the length of the aircraft. General William C Westmoreland interviewed by newsmen. U.S. airmen sweep debris off the field. (Vietnam War period).
Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (Alias: Emil Robert Goldfus, Alias: Rudolph Abel) arrives in Atlanta, where he will serve his prison sentence in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He steps down from an Eastern Airlines aircraft, accompanied by his attorney, James B. Donovan, and law enforcement officials.One or two reporters attempt to inverview him. Handcuffed and wearing his trademark fedora hat with white hatband, the prisoner is escorted across the tarmac in the dark.
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