Medics carry Chinese casualties on stretchers to a makeshift hospital in Northern Burma during World War II. U.S. General Joseph Stilwell looks at the wounded being brought in. British surgeon Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Seagrave treats wounded Nationalist Chinese casualty. Army doctors and Burmese nurses treating casualties at a makeshift hospital. Wounded soldiers being brought in at night. A Burmese nurse talks to a patient. Gordon Seagrave treats a patient. An army doctor tucks a patient. Wounded Nationalist Chinese soldier smoking cigarette. A patient sleeps on his stomach in a hammock in Ledo, Assam, India.
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers a speech at a news conference in July 28, 1965 during the Vietnam War. President Johnson quotes a letter from a woman in the Midwest, "Dear Mr. President: In my humble way I am writing to you about the crisis in Vietnam. I have a son who is now in Vietnam. My husband served in World War II. Our country was at war, but now, this time, it's just something that I don’t understand. Why?”. United States Army soldiers in a Vietnamese jungle. A crying Vietnamese child. A man sits in front of a fire in the middle of a ruined house. Fascist leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during a parade in Munich, Germany. Flags of Nazi Germany and the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain disembarks from in Munich for the Munich agreement. Nazi German guards turn their heads in unison. Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain walk together. Crowd civilians perform the Nazi salute. Hitler and Mussolini in balcony. Neville Chamberlain reads the “Peace For Our Time” speech. “We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again” Chamberlain said before smiling. Ruins of a bombarded city in Europe during World War II. Mussolini gesturing strongly during a speech. Cavalry soldiers on horseback in Ethiopia. Royal Italian Army fighting in Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Italian soldiers firing with a Fiat-Revelli M14 machine gun and advancing in field. Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia protests Italian aggression in the League of Nations. A stylized Nazi eagle statue in Austria. Austrian soldiers during the German Anschluss of 1938. Hitler and Austrian politicians perform the Nazi salute in Vienna. Explosions from night bombardment during the Korean War. Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army troops firing with Chinese Type 24 Maxim Water-Cooled Machine Gun and rifles in Korea. Soldiers’ feet climb and jump up uneven terrain in the battlefield. United States Army M46 Patton tanks pointing upwards and firing at enemy positions. An M46 Patton tank and trucks of the United Nations Forces crossing the 38th parallel line in Korea. Sign denotes the 38th parallel line. President Johnson continues his speech at the White House. “Why must young Americans, born into a land exultant with hope and with golden promise, toil and suffer and sometimes die in such a remote and distant place? The answer, like the war itself, is not an easy one, but it echoes clearly from the painful lessons of half a century. Three times in my lifetime, in two World Wars and in Korea, Americans have gone to far lands to fight for freedom. We have learned at a terrible and a brutal cost that retreat does not bring safety and weakness does not bring peace. It is this lesson that has brought us to Vietnam.” President Johnson said.
British Army Gordon Highlanders capture a Boer battery crew in the battlefield during the Second Boer War. Dutch burghers (or “citizen-soldiers”) man two two Creusot guns in the foreground. The Gordon Highlanders, wearing traditional Scottish kilts, approach the Boer battery rapidly and sweeping them. The Boer battery retreats, deserting their guns, as they are being chased by the Gordon Highlanders.
A Boer battery fire the two large field artillery pieces immediately in the foreground. English lancers advance as urged by their officers at the Modder River during the Second Boer War. The British troops overrun the Boer battery. Some of the Boer soldiers fall dead or wounded in the field. Soldiers wave a flag.
A convoy of staff cars drive and pull over. British Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery arrives at Shelton, Berkshire by car to review United States Army 101st Airborne Division in the area during World War II. Montgomery is accompanied by United States Army Brigadier General Don Forrester Pratt, Major General Leven Cooper Allen, and Major General William Carey Lee. Montgomery and the United States Army generals talk to various 101st Airborne Division regimental officers and paratroopers. Montgomery troops a line of 101st Airborne Division men. Some of the men accompanying Montgomery wears the 101st Airborne Division eagle patch. A cameraman wearing the 101st Airborne Division eagle patch meets Montgomery and he takes a picture of him with other VIPs in front of the staff car. Montgomery reaches out for his pocket.
Allied crewmen use binoculars to view the coast of the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy during World War 2. The Allied invasion fleet approaching the peninsula the morning of D-Day in World War II. Allied warships firing rockets at enemy coastal defenses during invasion of France. Landing craft with U.S. soldiers and British soldiers heading toward shore during the assault. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers sailing towards the beachhead. Smoke rises from bombed enemy shore defenses. Allied assault troops landing on beaches of Normandy. Some of the soldiers fall as they are struck by German enemy fire. More troops disembark from landing craft and wade to reach the beachhead.
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