U.S. troops load supplies on a U.S. Army helicopter at Phu Bai fire base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter takes off from a resupply chopper pad. Two Vietnamese boys carrying jugs of water to the chopper pad. Supply boxes stacked at the chopper pad. Words on boxes : Meal Combat Individual. A UH-1D Iroquois lands on a chopper pad. Rotor blades of the helicopter turn. Soldiers U.S. 82nd Field Artillery Regiment load supplies into the UH-1D helicopter.
View of clouds and of numbers 3 and 4 engines, running, from cockpit of airborne WB-50D aircraft. Stratiform clouds seen below. Pilot at the controls. Another crew member seen at window in right side of the aircraft. View of WB-50D right wing from the rear. Two dropsondes are released and fall away from the aircraft. A lieutenant (copilot) demonstrating turbulence at the controls, and then eating lunch in the cockpit. The WB-50D of the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) landing at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. Storm clouds seen in background.
A police dispatcher answers a call at the D.C. Metropolitan Police Central Complaint Room in Washington D.C. A city map inside the dispatch room. Dispatcher speaks into microphone and then staples a Central Complaint Room Report. Police dispatcher marks a check mark on a Complaint Room Report before speaking on microphone. A Metropolitan Police car (1964 Plymouth) parked at K Street and Connecticut Ave. NW Washington D.C. starts driving down K Street after turning on siren light, passing the YWCA building at 17th and K. Police hands holding a clip board and microphone while writing out a report. A question mark surrounded by words “who”, “when”, “how” “where”, “what” and “why”. A policeman questions a victim and a witness inside a small grocery store after a robbery. A policeman records an incident in precinct Register of Persons arrested. Hands searching through an arrest index file within a file cabinet. A detective taking notes while holding card from file cabinet. A bar chart for most committed types of crime. A graph depicting auto-theft arrests according to criminal’s age group.
Exterior view of the Pentagon building in Washington DC. Entrance facade of The Pentagon. Inside the Pentagon, sign says “Director of Materiel Army Service Forces Major General Lucius D. Clay”. Major General Lucius D. Clay, Director of Materiel speaks about the importance of steel in the production of US war materiel for World War 2. A secretary writes down his speech. “However our contribution to the collection of scrap can in no way meet the demand. We must depend on our home front, to exert its best effort, to collect the huge tonnage of scrap. The steel industry must have the scrap if our arms services are to obtain the high quality of steel needed for invasion. The collection of steel scrap is a vital part of our war supply program” Major General Lucius D. Clay says as he concludes his speech.
Barrage balloons fly over Allied fleet during the invasion of Normandy during World War II. A flag with 4 stars on the mast the HMS Apollo where United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower sails. United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Admiral Bertram Ramsay talk while they observe the invasion of Normandy onboard a ship. United States General Omar Bradley climbs a rope ladder to join General Eisenhower and Admiral Ramsey. Soldiers standing in formation upon the arrival of British General Bernard L. Montgomery. Aides assist General Montgomery as he comes aboard ship. Admiral Bertram Ramsay, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Bernard L. Montgomery smiling together.
D-558-2 Skyrocket with a B-29 Superfortress in flight over Muroc Air Force Base (soon after renamed Edwards Air Force Base). A B-29 Superfortress in flight. A Skyrocket is attached to the belly of B-29. Insignia of United States. A chase plane flies on the left side of the B-29. The posterior part of D-558-2 and B-29. Jet is turned on and the Skyrocket is still attached to B-29. Vapor comes out from the jet line. U.S. Navy Skyrocket emits much vapor while still attached to B-29. The Skyrocket with B-29 in flight. The Skyrocket detaches from B-29 mother ship and is in flight. It flies over the mountains. The Skyrocket makes pass from the landing field. (Note: the Superfortress bomber seen here has the big WASP Major engines. So it is probably a B-50 - perhaps XB-50.)
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