View of the training center at the Tsuchiura Navy Air Corps, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Buildings in the Imperial Japanese Navy Flying Department Practice Club. Exterior of Japanese cadet barracks at early morning. Japanese Naval Air cadets sleeping in long lines of arranged hammocks. Loudspeaker sounding to wake cadets. A man makes an announcement through the siren. Navy cadets rise from their hammocks at reveille. Cadets rolling and tying their hammocks. They put their rolled hammocks back into place. Japanese naval cadets jogging on the grounds of the Tsuchiura Navy Air Corps. Japanese cadets in formation at morning quarters. Japanese officer on platform giving commands thru microphone. Japanese cadets in formation singing the national anthem, Kimigayo. Japanese calligraphy inscription. Cadets in formation; open formation for exercises. Hundreds or thousands of cadets doing early morning exercises (taisou). Japanese sailor ringing bell near barracks.
Artistic depiction of United States Marine Corps (USMC) Marines in Vietnam. Soldiers of the 5th Marine Division march in at Camp Pendleton . A medical officer holding a mass inoculation gun. An officer wearing a helmet that reads “EMBARKATION”. The Marines load supplies into the back of a truck. Marines boarding the helicopter carrier USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) bound for Vietnam. A Marine kisses his wife while holding his daughter before he leaves for Vietnam. Family members wave goodbye to departing Marines. A Marine kiss his daughter’s cheek. A drawing depicts Marines boarding a helicopter to Vietnam. Bell UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter shooting at enemy positions in flight. Boeing CH-46 helicopters landing in Vietnamese jungle. Artistic depiction of Marines fighting in the Vietnam War. Marines in fox hole. Marines stand and point their bayonets at wounded North Vietnamese abandoned on the battlefield. Navy corpsman treats wounded Vietnamese soldier. Body of dead Vietnamese soldier and recovered weapons gathered on the field.
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.
A group of ore freighter ships sailing in the Detroit River. Thick, black smoke rise from freighter ship chimneys. Boblo boat Columbia loaded with passengers on deck moving from a dock. Aerial view of Belle Isle Park located in the Detroit River.
Intense bombing over Le Havre, France after Allied landings on D-Day in World War II. Allied Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers in flight. Aerial view of Le Havre being bombed at night. Bombs exploding over the city with fires being visible from the air. Some flak and tracer fire are visible at night.
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