A control tower unit at Brize Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom. A U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet aircraft after it takes off. The control tower unit. Tower operators in the control room. They are seated on chairs. Airmen operate the controls. A man speaks over a radio. Men speak into ground to air radio microphones. A close up of a man talking over the radio.
A group of U.S. Marines, aboard a ship, lean over a map and discuss their mission to occupy an airfield at Yokosuka, Japan, at the end of world war 2..The U.S.Destroyer, USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), is seen in the background. Scene changes to Marines crowded in a Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) near a troop transport ship. The craft displays a pennant bearing the number "7." Next, they approach a seaplane ramp at the Yokosuka Naval Base, where their craft lowers its door and they disembark. They march off in a formation. ( Many U.S. Marines are already seen on the base, having arrived in earlier landing craft.) Camera pans over hangars adjacent to Atsugi airfield, where debris is strewn about, including inverted remains of a Japanese transport plane and remains of two single engine fighter planes. U.S.. Marines enter a large hangar, showing blast damage on its doors. Others enter another large hangar. View from above of several Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero Fighter planes on a ramp outside a hangar. View from a high point overlooking damaged hangars, shows a bay of water with hills and some other installations at opposite water's edge. Camera pans back again to the Zero fighter planes and hangar seen earlier. Another view of fairly large body of water behind the damaged Naval base. Group of Marines marching past a hangar. Inverted Japanese aircraft in foreground. Closeup of U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr. and and other officers.
Wreckage of Allied aircraft destroyed during the invasion of Normandy, in World War 2. Location: a field in Normandy,France. A destroyed Martin B-26 Marauder bomber with a propeller on the ground beside it. A wrecked British Horsa glider, with front part of its fuselage missing.Remnants of other gliders. A propeller sitting alone in the field. Remains of a destroyed C-47 transport plane.
U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group aboard a ship underway in the Philippine Sea during World War 2. Soldiers fire guns from the deck of the ship. Shells explode in water and flak in the sky. The ship approaches Leyte Island at sun rise. American forces in a landing craft underway at sea. A gun crew fires at Japanese Nakajima B6N Tenzan ("Jill") aircraft which is diving towards the ship in a kamikaze suicide attempt. The shells explode in water.
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietcong soldiers attend a political or propaganda lecture. The soldiers cross a road. A Vietcong soldier carries an AK-47 submachine gun. An abandoned bus at the side of a road. A dead body beside the bus. Vietcong soldiers in a field. A dead ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldier. United States Air Force C-123B Provider aircraft in flight
New York City residents protest against war during a parade in Harlem, New York City. Civilians crowd on the streets for anti-war mass demonstration opposing hostilities between Italy and Ethiopia. They hold banners denouncing the war and parade through the streets. Buildings on either side of the streets. (Note for Editors: August 5 was a Monday; two demonstrations that linked up in Harlem were actually scheduled and took place on August 3, a Saturday -- it attracted 20,000 people. The NY Times reported on it the next day, and their photo shows the exact same building in b.g. of your footage, i.e. same location. Thanks.)
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