United states Secretary of Defense address the press in Washington D.C., United States. A Department of Defense emblem at a door with the nameplate of Secretary Melvin R Laird below it. United States Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird addresses the press with American Ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker and American Ambassador to Paris Habib in the background. Secretary Laird talks about the reorganization program and its implications. He also talks about the awards being given to Ambassador Bunker and Habib.
United States F-105D aircraft of 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Korat air base in Thailand during Vietnam War. Three United States F-105D aircraft armed with 750 lb general purpose bombs taxi to the arming area at the Korat air base in Thailand. Airmen remove safety pins from the bomb rack and arm the gun nose. Aircraft lined up. A F-105 D aircraft named Dragon with a 750 lb general purpose bomb. F-105 Ds loaded with bombs and rocket pods taxi from arming area and start the take off run as they leave for a mission.
Pilot in cockpit of A1-E Skyraider, with another A1-E flying on his left wing. View of small military forward base below and smoke rising from hills above the base. view from A1-E firing Rockets at military buildings atop the hill. Smoke enveloping the entire complex. (Vietnam War period.)
Views of the Berlin Wall under construction in 1961. West Berlin street scene, contrasted to scenes of East Berlin across the border, still showing unrepaired damage from World War II and otherwise lacking development. Views of East German border guards retrieving the body of Gunter Litfin from the River Spree, after his unsuccessful attempt to flee East Germany. A floral tribute to Ida Siekmann, on barbed wire at the border. View of forests in mists. Refugees with their belongings walking from East Germany over a bridge to West Berlin. View of Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. Buildings along the border of East and West Berlin with windows cemented shut along the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire at the border. Armed East German border guards across the border. Views of the Berlin wall border wall. Views of the moon, and stars. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,making a forceful point while speaking at a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, in October,1960. Seated beside him is Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister. U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressing the UN. U.S. Sailors helping Vietnam refugees from an open stake truck. U.S. soldiers attacking and firing machine guns in Korean War. Two U.S. warships at sea. A physician attending a patient. U.S. representative providing advice and assistance to foreign farmers. The Washington Monument, in Washington, DC. Statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Memorial. Statue of Thomas Jefferson.
United States 9th Infantry Division troops in Cambodia during the Cambodian Campaign of the Vietnam War. Troops aboard an M113 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier). The Armored Personnel Carrier with troops moves through a forest area.
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.