President Franklin D Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated on a lawn in Morocco during World War 2. American General George Patton and Harry Hopkins stand on edge of American cemetery. President Roosevelt in jeep shakes hand with officers and chats with the group standing alongside jeep.
A Caterpillar D7 bulldozer working to push fallen trees out of the planned route during construction of Ledo Road in Manpin, Burma. Bulldozer pushing logs into huge pile. A cleared area. A bulldozer pushing dirt.
CAPT. D.S. BRYAN, 328TH Squadron. 352ND Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, engages a German FW-190 aircraft in combat. Gun camera footage clip shows hit on German aircraft. (World War II period).
P-47D Thunderbolts of the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) 56th Fighter Group taxiing and taking off from RAF Halesworth airfield in England in World War 2. They are on mission ("Ramrod to Emden) escorting U.S. bombers in raid on German U-Boat Base at Emden, Germany.The first P-47 seen is serial 41-6261 "Bat Out of Hell" (coded UN-B) flown by LT Gordon Batdorf of the 63rd Fighter Squadron. Others seen in the sequence include P-47s including: 42-74750 ("Lady jane") and 42-74635. Officer fires a flare to signal takeoff. After taking off in pairs, the aircraft of the 63rd Squadron assemble in a formation of 16 aircraft and then join other squadrons of the 56th Fighter Group to proceed on their mission.
R-5D aircraft taxies at Kodiak Naval Station, Alaska. A building on a hilly terrain.
U.S. Marines advance through a jungle in Khe Sanh, Vietnam. A Marine in foul weather gear, smoking a cigarette, prepares to pull the pin on a smoke grenade, to mark a landing zone for medivac. Green smoke rises. Helicopter in flight overhead. Marines carry wounded comrade to landing site, where helicopter has landed. Marines unload "C" rations from UH34D helicopter and place the wounded Marine aboard the helicopter. They help one ambulatory wounded Marine to board. As helicopter takes off, gunner with M-60 machine gun can be seen in open door. (Vietnam War period).
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