U.S. Marine aircraft and transporters supply in South Vietnam. A fork lift loads tiers into air transporter craft. A CH-46 helicopter in flight. Boxes at base. The CH-46 helicopter lands. Soldiers load boxes in the craft. U.S. artillery is fired. Logistics dropped from air are attached to parachutes. Bombing near air craft. Bombing on artillery at night. Ammunition loaded in air craft. Maintenance work of craft. Bomber parked at revetment with bombs. Bombs loaded on McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Damaged air plane. Troops get onto plane and fly to a hospital ship. A wounded soldier in air plane. Machine gun at door. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in action in South Vietnam. Ground troops about 20 meters away from the enemy. 1st Marine Aircraft Wing Headquarter is contacted. Personnel at air base takes the information about location. Pilots are briefed by a briefing officer. He says three runs on target and last man calls off target. Pilots and crew run towards aircraft. They sit in F-4 Phantom and A-4 Sky Hawks. Crafts taxi out of revetments and take off. Ground troops fire. Aerial views as bombers and fighter jets drop bombs and fire rockets on enemy targets. Fire and explosions on ground. Point of view (POV) shots from forward underbelly of aircraft showing rocket launchers as rockets are fired at targets. Dramatic explosions on ground. Marine Forward Air Controller informs the base about accurate bombing. Ground troops move forward. Viet civilians walk on road. (Vietnam War period).
A United States Naval training film about the Battle of Coral sea. Animation shows Japanese Operation during the battle. Movement of F17 planes in the Coral Sea. Moves of U.S. and Japanese Task Forces. The U.S. TF moves into Japanese area by mistake.
Wreckage and debris on Munda Point airfield, New Georgia Island, after its capture by U.S. forces during World War 2. Dead Japanese soldiers. Destroyed aircraft on island as result of U.S. bombing. Reconstruction workers clear and enlarge runway and operations tower as Americans improve and expand the airbase for their own operations. U.S. flag raised on pole. Seen are the first aircraft to land at Munda Point (on August 14, 1943). The first is a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-40 with letter K and white stripe on fuselage and a white tail. It is followed by a J2F Duck carrying U.S.Marine Brigadier General Francis P. Mulcahy to set up his new headquarters at Munda Point.
America's Cup Yacht racing in United States. U.S. President John F. Kennedy along with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy are seen among the spectators at the sail boat race. U.S. Yacht "Weatherly" and Australian challenger "Gretel" race ahead of each other for the title. "Weatherly" wins the race.
U.S. and Laos leaders meet for discussions on formation of a coalition government in Laos. Map of Laos. Plane comes cargo being unloaded from the plane. U.S. President John F. Kennedy meets Chairman of the council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev in Vienna, Austria. Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos disembark. He goes away in a car. Communist head of Laos comes and journalists interview him. The Laos Right Wing Military Chief being interviewed in Laos. Officials confer in a meeting.
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