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President Herbert Hoover greets visitors from Texas on the White House lawn in Washington DC.
President Herbert Hoover meets political and business leaders from Texas on White House lawn (in the days following the September 7, 1929 launch of the ship USS Houston at Newport News Virginia). President Hoover shakes hand and poses with delegates. Among those seen are R.B. Creager, Judge Higgins, the President, Houston Mayor Walter Monteith, Senator Garrett and Senator Connolly. Colonel R.C. Kuldell invites President Hoover to visit Houston Texas.
Colleges prepare students for military and civil occupations useful in World War 2 war effort, United States.
Aerial view of U.S. Army B-17 bomber aircraft flying in formation. Crew working and looking at charts inside a bomber aircraft. Vought OS2U Kingfisher taking off from deck of aircraft carrier. Military vehicles cross pontoon bridge. Gun crew beside a gun. Men operate artillery. Graduation at Annapolis in Maryland. Various colleges across United States, including view of Dartmouth Hall at Darthmouth College; Andrew Dickson White seated statue at Cornell University, from behind, with McGraw Tower in background; view of traffic on streets of University of Texas campus with the UT Tower in the background; an unidentified college building. President of Purdue University, Edward C Elliott at desk gives a speech. Airplanes parked at Purdue University Airport. Instructor talks with college students in civilian clothing who are learning to fly. Tuskegee school students before war. Fliers operate planes at Tuskegee airfield in Alabama. Men attend ground crew classes. Pilots outside laboratory to learn meteorology. At the University of Virginia, in the aeronautical department, students are seen learning principles of aircraft design use of wind tunnels. Mechanical Engineering college students work with equipment. Student work with communication devices. Medical college trains doctors and nurses. View of the University of Virginia School of Medicine building facing University Avenue. Men and women students in laboratory with test tubes and various tests underway. Another scenes shows a student working in a blood bank. Military messages and various diplomatic terms are taught to students by instructors. Students in Chinese and Japanese library at Harvard University learn Asian relations. Scientists work with selected students. U.S. Navy sailors in uniform work at Purdue University. Some are seen training as electricians. Other training classes are seen at Cornell Universtiy. At a Law school lecture auditorium of the University of Virginia law school, high ranking officers learn how to control occupied territory. At Tulane Medical school, officers learn how to fight tropical diseases. Army medical officers look through microscopes in a Tulane laboratory. Cadets at Quartermaster School at the Harvard School of Business are seen receiving instruction in how to manage army camps. They learn how to supervise camp kitchens. Students at Cornell University in a nutrition department laboratory are working to create vitamin rich, compact foods to be condensed in small blocks and carried in aviator kits. At a University of California laboratory, a students works to dehydrate foods to one fifth of their former size. Dehydrated fruits and vegetables are shown being weighed. African American students are trained at Hampton Institute. They are seen in the classroom, in a science laboratory, and working in a machine shop turning out war materiel. African American students learn welding in a shop classroom, and then some are shown working at shipyards. Men work with field equipment. Training of ROTC cadets is given at many schools including Perdue University. Cadets handle modern rifles, military vehicles, and learn artillery skills. Cadets beside a stadium at Texas A&M University put on gas masks and are trained for gas-raids. Cadets learn to thrown hand grenades. Navy ROTC students at Georgia Tech learn naval tactics. A groups of California students study a torpedo. Tulane University Navy ROTC students learn ship gun skills. Navy ROTC students in Virginia board a ship to learn practical sea skills. At University of North Carolina, students in the Naval pre-flight program attend fitness classes, do formation calisthenic exercises, learn boxing, and hand-to-hand combat. Navy cadets at a swimming pool practice swimming and diving skills, including fully clothed diving and swimming, and swimming under simulated burning oil.
Soldiers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion 47th Infantry (Mechanized) and 4th Battalion 39th Infantry clearing a hamlet during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam
Elements of B Company, 2/47th Infantry (Mechanized) and C Company, 4/39th Infantry, clearing North Vietnamese Army regulars from "Widows' Village" (a hamlet of housing provided by the government of the Republic of Vietnam for widows and children of fallen ARVN soldiers). The action occurs January 31st, 1968 (on "Tet", the Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday). U.S. troops firing small arms as they proceed across tall grass into the hamlet. Several M 113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) are seen accompanying the troops. A soldier, who has been hit, lying prone between two other soldiers, tries to get up. Flames consuming huts. Riflemen moving cautiously. A slightly wounded soldier, lying on the ground, smiles as he points to his leg as another soldier helps him. APCs advance, firing 50 caliber machine guns. Riflemen staying close behind. Views of a number of huts, in the hamlet, that have not been destroyed. (Note: According to Colonel Sonny Craven, then leader of a combat photo team on the scene, these combat sequences was filmed by soldiers of the 221st Signal Company [Pictorial]). Craven and another photographer, were both wounded in the engagement.) (Vietnam War period).
USAF personnel wait to attack Vietcong at Tan Son Entrance Air Base, Vietnam.
U.S. soldier checks dead Vietcong lying on ground. Smoke rises in the distant background. Soldier removes items from dead Vietcong, turns the body over and picks up B-40 rockets. Bombs explode and smoke rises from area as A-1H helicopters attack Vietcong on perimeter of Tan Son Entrance. U.S. Air Force trooper watches bombs exploding. He moves away. Aircraft in flight. Smoke and fire rise during bombing attack. USAF men stand near vehicle. Two tanks in motion at Tan Son Entrance Airfield. USAF personnel lay prone along runway with M-16s. Men along runway wait to attack. Troops walk towards vehicle. (Vietnam War period).
United States troops watch attacks made by A1-H aircraft in flight over enemy positions at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam.
U.S. troops lay prone on ground next to runway with M-16 rifles during attack of Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. One soldier crouches behind soldiers lying on ground. Troops wait for an attack. Soldier takes aim. Tank moves fast at Tan Son Nhut, kicking up dust. Open field, smoke rises from the distant background. C-123 aircraft in flight overhead. Air Force personnel with M-16 rifles pass on runway. Bodies of dead Vietcong along the edge of runway. B-40 rocket on ground. Troops around trucks and trailers. A1-H aircraft bombing enemy. Clouds of smoke rise in the far background from bomb hit. Smoke rises from building in the background. UH-46D helicopter flies by in the background with supplies hanging from sling. Fireball rises up from explosions. (Vietnam War period).
Fallen U.S. soldiers recovered following battles in Tet Offensive during Vietnam War
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. UH-1B helicopter in flight overhead. MPs (Military Police) and the U.S. troops search the area. EOD (Explosive Ordnance Demolition) men remove explosives from bodies of dead Vietcong on U.S. embassy ground in Saigon, Vietnam. MPs bring suspected Vietcong out of building. Trooper searches other areas. A truck pulls up in street. Dead Vietcong in street. Civilians walk about. Soldiers under cover of M-48 tank of the 1st Infantry Division. Soldiers remove bodies of fallen Americans from street as the M-48 moves forward.
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