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.
Soldiers guard a group of Korean refugees during the Korean War. The refugees sit on the ground. Hungarian rebels shoot behind a building between Károlyi and Cukor Street (Budapest, Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Hungary) in Inner City, Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. In a devastated street, a tank rolls in, with Soviet soldiers sitting on top. Burned and abandoned tanks along Andrassy Avenue. Newspaper article titled “Khrushchev Hails New African States”. United States President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural speech from the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. “We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” President Kennedy said.
Aerial view of Detroit, Michigan, late 1920s. Aerial view of the General Motors Building (Cadillac Place, 3044 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202) by Albert Kahn located in the New Center area of Detroit.
During the German invasion of Poland during World War II, German army forces cross new temporarily built bridges. The troops are composed primarily of soldiers on foot, with horse-drawn supply wagons and some mounted cavalry. German troops crossing on a low and simply-made bridge with no guardrails. Debris in the water near the bridge. Horse-drawn wagons entering a different bridge. View of crooked rails on hastily-made bridges. A soldier on a bicycle rides up a muddy road beside a horse-drawn supply wagon. Another wagon ahead contains another bicycle. A third bridge is crossed. On the opposite bank, a wagon pulled by two horses speeds off the bridge, kicking up dust. A soldier runs behind. Horses run to pull wagons up a hill, and then slow at the top. The troops walk along a road.
The Executive Committee of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) meet at the United Nations headquarters. The agenda of the meeting is a medical and welfare campaign against diseases and malnutrition world over. Delegates from Pakistan, Israel and United States seen. A nurse trains ladies with the aid of a skeleton. India: A doctor checks a boy's ears as other children wait their turn. Korea: A doctor checks a boy as other children watch. A girl is given a pill and food in a backward area. Men carry supplies of antibiotics, serums, and powdered milk on their backs.
Australian tennis player Frank Arthur Sedgman makes his pro debut against American John Albert Kramer also known as Jack Kramer. Sedgman and Kramer walk onto the tennis court. Spectators applaud. The match begins. The match underway. Spectators watch the match. Kramer defeats Sedgman 6-1, 6-2. The two players shake hands at the net.
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