Helicopters on an airfield during the Vietnam War. Wreckage of a destroyed plane with debris. A nose art of a destroyed plane. Bombed soldiers’ barracks at a United States airbase in South Vietnam. Photographs of soldiers’ loved ones, including a portrait of a young girl, among debris in bomb site. Vietcong car bombing of the United States Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam on March 30, 1965. A 1962 Chevrolet C10 Suburban ambulance arrives in the scene. A bloodied embassy worker covers his face. Another embassy worker is taken away. A bleeding victim holds his cigarette as he’s carried on a stretcher. A United States Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter in flight. U.S. Army soldier in helicopter fires machine gun. Soldiers advancing in field and an upturned helicopter is seen in the foreground. Soldiers escape from the upturned helicopter. United States soldiers recuperate in makeshift hospital beds. A soldier with head covered in bandage. A shirtless soldier sleeps with his mouth open. Coffins draped with the United States flag at an airfield in South Vietnam. Soldiers and sailors pay tribute to the fallen soldiers. Soldiers carry the coffin of a fallen colleague to an aircraft. Vietnamese civilians look on. A pair of poor Vietnamese children. Vietnamese men and women praying. Drafted soldiers onboard a ship arrive in Vietnam. They unload supplies, one of them holding a banner. Soldiers holding the United States flag and a banner. Combat units of the United States Marine Corps onboard ship heading to Vietnam. The Marines disembark a landing craft upon landing on beach head in Vietnam. A Lockheed C-130 Hercules taxiing at an airfield in Vietnam. Army combat unit soldiers disembark and unload weapons from the transport plane. Trucks carrying combat soldiers moving.
Rear view of United States Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopters during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army helicopter pilot and soldier crew member in cockpit. South Vietnamese soldiers using a field phone. Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers in flight. Aerial bombing of Vietcong positions. An officer points to a map. Hand traces marked positions on the map. Vietnamese civilians evacuate from their homes. An injured civilian is taken on a helicopter. A Vietnamese child cries. Vietnamese children wash their hands and dries them with washcloths. A girl combs her hair. A boy lays a tablecloth and glass on the table. A girl holding a bowl of biscuits. A boy is given a biscuit and eats it. “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle,” says United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during a news conference at the White House on July 28, 1965. Photographs of various young American men of different backgrounds, some with their girlfriends or working. A photograph of American teenagers or young adults. Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong smiling. A portrait of North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh over a flag of North Vietnam. View of a ship’s bow. The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) or USS Lexington (CV-16). A Douglas A-4 Skyhawk fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier. A pair of bombers dropping bombs over Vietnam. Bombs falling from bomber. Aerial view of bombs exploding in North Vietnam. A USMC LVTP-5 amphibious armored personnel carrier. United States Marines land on beach head and moving in jungle. “This, then, my fellow Americans, is why we are in Vietnam.” President Johnson ends his speech.
Troops, equipment, and vehicles on board a landing craft heading to Normandy, France during D-Day landings in World War II. Soldiers on ship’s gun turret. A landing craft sailing. Military trucks crammed on deck of ship. Soldiers board an LCM (Landing craft mechanized) and head to the beach. LCM boats crammed with soldiers. Convoy vessels sailing towards Normandy with faint barrage balloons overhead.
Clip begins with footage of an attack transport ship and a tug boat alongside one another, before cutting to a scene of U.S. medical corpsmen lowering medical gear over the side of the ship they are on, presumably onto a smaller ship below that is out of sight. A WW2 LCVP Higgins Boat is then seen maneuvering through semi-choppy water, presumably toward the beaches of Normandy during D-Day invasion. Three groups of planes in formation are then shown far overhead, before the clip cuts back to footage of Higgins Boats. Low level shot across choppy seas of many more Higgins Boats in the water. View of another LCVP moored beside a much larger attack transport ship.
Updating of Atlas D missiles for space boosters and construction of Minuteman II launch facility Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota. Underground silo opens up and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is erected. Crane hoisting missile. Missiles on trailer truck are transferred to hangers near Norton AFB in California. Shrouded Titan I (first generation) missiles in hangars which are going through deactivation process. Updating of Atlas D missiles for space boosters. Men at desk and officer at chart. Missile launched from air base. Engineers and workers working on missile components. Modifications of launch facility and missile at Vandenberg AFB in California. Officers in control center. Minuteman II missile test facility under construction at Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota. Various launch facilities across U.S.
Annual report of X-15. Pilot Albert Scott Crossfield in a cockpit of X-15. NB-52A Stratofortress in flight. X-15 attached in the wing of NB-52A. A smoky trail left out by X-15. X-15 detaches from the right wing of NB-52A. X-15 in flight goes up. Smoky trail left by X-15. Credits of the film. X-15 flies by and lands on the dry lake bed. Control van shows operators looking out of window while seated at control consoles. X-15 landing roll and stops on dry lake bed. X-15 towed by a tug out of hangar and along taxiway. NASA pilot Joe Walker in flight suit walks towards X-15 under wing on NB-52A. Cars and vans in the background. NB-52A taxis right with X-15 under wing. Another NB-52A with X-15 under wing in the background. NB-52A in flight to right with X-15 under wing. X-15 is released and in flight to the right followed by F-104B chase aircraft. Major Robert White in X-15 cockpit putting on helmet. X-15 on dry lake bed with technicians around aircraft. In front of X-15 is the fire crash truck. Major Robert White wearing flight clothes and helmet and talks to USAF officers and technician after his first X-15 flight.
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