Vehicle Ambush Counter-attack techniques. Dramatization: A Corvair stops in the middle of a road. Two men get out. They take out hand guns and semi-automatic guns and wait in ambush for a Cadillac limousine. A woman sits on a motorbike she signals kidnappers using her walkie talkie handheld radio device. The men with guns come in front of the Cadillac limousine and stop the other car. Close up view of hands holding and firing a semi-automatic assault rifle. They shoot the driver and kidnap the passenger, putting a blindfold over his head as they put him into a van. Newspaper headlines about kidnappings, including the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. California State Police logo. View of cars weaving through traffic cones in parking lot, learning evasive maneuvers. POV through front seat of police patrol car being driven at high speed. Shot of chauffeur polishing a Mercedes Benz. View of damaged cars in a junkyard, including a Trans Am and a Buick Riviera. Even though the Riviera has considerable front end damage, it is started easily by technicians. The narrator explains that cars can be used as weapons to get out of an ambush.
Vehicle Ambush Counter-attack techniques. Cars are driven through road barricades as narrator explains use of a vehicle as a weapon to push aside cars that are being used to ambush. Cars are hit in the rear or front quarters by the escape vehicles to demonstrate disruption of an ambush. POV driver side of car as gunmen drive alongside and shoot the driver. Wide shots of same ambush on driver as it takes place on road curve. Defensive maneuvers by driver include hitting the brakes hard to throw off the aim of gunmen. View of motorcycle on same curve. View of Molotov cocktail being thrown at a car. Narrator explains that having the window up helps to ward off a Molotov cocktail attack as views of burning car are seen. A chauffeur waits on the street in front of a Cadillac limousine. A man emerges from an office building and gets into the limousine. POV of limousine driver as he drives to evade attackers, and reaches under dashboard to turn on a siren. Woman in 1970s fashions sits on a motorcycle radioing ahead to attackers on her walkie talkie.
An Italian war orphan celebrates the anniversary of her adoption at destroyer escort USS George E. Davis in Florida. Nine year old Maria LaVecchia is the foster daughter of 200 men crew. She cuts a cake. The crew eats the cake. She is surrounded by the crew men. She is adopted under the 'Foster Parent Plan'. The foster fathers kiss her on the adoption anniversary.
U.S. Vietnam veteran Army Sergeants instruct troops prepaing for deployment to Vietnam. Live fire training at a firing range. "Quick Kill" weapon pointing technique is taught, using "BB" air powered gun and aluminum disks. M-16 training. Two-week refresher course, at Fort Riley, Kansas, for Non-commissioned officers, preparing to return to war in Vietnam. (Vietnam War period).
Southern California wins the 55th Annual Collegiate Games in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 100-yard dash event in progress. Frank Wykoff, the winner of the event. The hurdles event of the Games. Victor Wilson emerges the winner. Participants take their jump at the long-jump event. The pole vaulting event in progress. Bill Graber climbs over the bar at 14 feet ½ inch to win pole vault. Southern California is fourth time victorious in the Annual Collegiate Games.
Convair XFY-1 Pogo tailsitter fighter hovers over land. The U.S. XFY-1 Pogo lands. Men carry platform near U.S. XFY-1 Pogo. Man drives equipment carrying jeep supporting the testing of the experimental aircraft.
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