United States Army Special Forces officers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Army Captain Roger H. Donlon of Special Forces 'C' Team and Sergeant E5 James D. Coates with two Vietnamese security forces officers visit Camp Nam Dong. The men walk towards a barbed wire fence in the camp. A sandbagged bunker beside the fence and a soldier standing on top of the bunker. The officers holding guns kneel in front of the bunker and discuss. A few men behind the fence in the background. The officers stand beside the bunker and talk. A soldier stands guard beside the wire fence. The officers come out from a trench behind him and walk up to another sandbagged bunker. The officers stand beside the bunker and discuss. The soldier stands guard in the background. The officers walk away from the bunker.
Legislators entering a hall in Czechoslovakia, in 1948. Inside,an image of the Small Coat of Arms of the Republic of Czechoslovakia (1920) dominates the scene. New scene shows Gustav Husak, acting Prime Minister, delivering an address urging support for the Communist Party. The next sequence shows violent Communist-led demonstrations, as armed trade unionists riot in the Prague streets, attacking the offices of the political opposition. Police attempt to restore order. On February 25, 1948, the communists achieve a Czechoslovak coup d'état. On February 27th, Czech President, Edvard Benes, receives a delegation including communist Premier Klement Gottwald and the 12 new members of the cabinet, at the Presidential Palace. He is seen signing documents accepting the communist cabinet. Change of scene shows Czech Foreign Minister, Jan Masaryk, giving a speech rejecting the change. (He remained in office, but died under suspicious circumstances on On March 10, 1948.) View of Masaryk in his casket. Mourners at his funeral.The Czech Parliament Building with flag at half staff. President Benes seen strolling, using a cane, accompanied by his wife, Hana Benes, in the garden of their summer home, Benesova vila, in Sezimovo Usti. Narrator notes that he refused to sign a new constitution drawn up by the communists. He died of natural causes at his villa on September 3, 1948. Scenes of his funeral and of him in his casket. Views of Benes' state funeral, with mourners lining the streets. View of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Narrator describes circumstances using Churchill's term "Iron Curtain." A communist parade in an Eastern European city. A person who was roughed up on the street. View of East German uprising in 1953, being suppressed with Soviet tanks. Uprising in Poland in 1955 being put down by local police and Russian soldiers. Polish musicians playing and examples of Polish political cartoons permitted under relaxed communist rule.
President of the Provincial Government of the French Republic General Charles De Gaulle reviews midshipmen in Annapolis, Maryland during World War II. The midshipmen march with rifles in hand. General De Gaulle is greeted by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at Hyde Park in Chicago, Illinois. He places a wreath on former United States President Franklin D Roosevelt's grave and salutes.
United States 9th Infantry Division troops in Cambodia during the Cambodian Campaign of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter flies overhead. Soldiers on an M113 Armored Personnel Carrier fire .50 caliber machine guns. Soldiers in full combat gear advance in a forest area. 9th Infantry Division troops eat rations in the forest.
United States 9th Infantry Division troops in Cambodia during the Cambodian Campaign of the Vietnam War. Captured mortars, machine guns and rifles on the ground. An African American soldier inspects a captured enemy pistol. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter lands. 9th Infantry Division troops load captured weapons on M113 Armored Personnel Carriers. The soldiers inspect a captured machine gun.
United States 9th Infantry Division troops in Cambodia during the Cambodian Campaign of the Vietnam War. Soldiers walk on a field. Smoke and explosion in the background. A jet aircraft drops a bomb. An explosion on the ground. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter lands on a field.
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