The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. A sign board reads: 'Readiness Command Welcomes You To Brass Key II'. Members of the Senior Service Schools and other guests in the Fort Bragg parking lot after their arrival. Guests pass by a Red Cross tent. Paratroopers carry their supplies and board an aircraft. The demonstration of joint operations and teamwork of army and air force personnel. People seated at the Fort Bragg grandstand. An airplane parked on an air base. Paratroopers walk towards the airplane and embark. People seated on chairs. A McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (RF-4C) aircraft in flight. Men at a podium. Smoke trails from flash cartridges. HALO (High-Altitude Low Opening) jumpers in freefall. HALO jumpers with trailing smoke. A HALO jumper lowers his pack before landing on the ground. They descend with the help of parachutes. Long Range Recon Patrol group rappelling from helicopters. A team of paratroopers line up in front of people to give a demonstration. They are introduced to the audience. The captain of the team introduces the Special Forces Aid Attachment.
The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Man stands at a podium, addresses the people present at the demonstration. Soldiers lift a map from the ground. Soldiers hold a map showing a drop zone for an airborne mission to Sicily. An African American soldier points to locations on the map with a stick. The soldiers lower down the map before leaving. Three Lockheed C-130 Hercules demonstrate the low level in trail portion of a normal approach pattern and climb to drop altitude. Conduct of joint operations and teamwork of army and air force personnel in front of the people. Demonstration by the strike forces. A North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco in flight marks targets for fighters. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter bombers demonstrate bombardment on the target area. Pillar of smoke rises from drop zone. Fighters pull above the C-130s for top cover for airborne assault. C-130 airdrop equipment. U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules in flight. Precision drops of heavy load from C-130 transport planes. Extraction parachutes are popped into the slipstream. Equipment crew paratroopers jump out of the airplane and descend towards the land with the help of a parachute. Several airplanes in flight. Interior of an airplane. Jumper troops (some of them are African American) seated aboard the airplane. Jumper troops hook up before jump. They jump out of the plane and descend towards the land. Tactical fighters fly over paratroopers.
The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. People gather in a large number to watch the demonstration. Fire power demonstration by the Air Force units. A U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II airplane in flight. Plane fires a television-guided AGN-65 Maverick missile at a target. Officers and guests watch the aircraft demonstrations through binoculars from a reviewing stand. Smoke from explosion on the target area. Demonstration of gunship operations. U.S. Air Force Lockheed AC-130 aircraft in flight. The AC-130 Gunship firing its 20mm cannons its 40mm cannons, and its 105mm howitzer. U.S. Air Force A-7 Corsair II airplanes in flight. Mark 82 low drag 500 pound Laser guided bombs being dropped from the airplanes. Smoke arising from an explosion. McDonnell RF-4C reconnaissance aircraft approaching in sky overhead, and delivering, via small parachute packages, its aerial photographs taken that day.
The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. U.S. Air Force OV-10 Bronco aircraft in flight. They drop bombs over the target area. Smoke arises from explosion. USAF F-4 Phantom II aircraft in flight. Aerial view of the attack on ground target by the aircraft. U.S. Air Force A-7 Corsair aircraft attacks the ground target with 2.7 inch rockets, and then with high-drag Mark 82 Snake-eye bombs. The fins on the bombs slow their descent and permit a low-altitude bombing run with successful aircraft escape. Smoke from explosion on the ground. Ground support elements fire different artillery weapons including 105, 155, and 8 inch Howitzer.
United State prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. Captured U.S. prisoners of war in Corregidor Island during Japanese occupation. Army nurses with the captured prisoners of war. A wounded prisoner of war walking with crutches. Injured prisoners of war smoking cigarettes. The flag of the U.S. crumpled on the ground. Brigadier General Lewis Beebe, Colonel Bowles, General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, and General George F. Moore inside their cells in a prison camp. The flag of the U.S. on the ground and the Japanese flag is hoisted on a flagpole.
A college football game played between the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy teams in Philadelphia. Cadets and midshipmen from the military academies gather in a large number in a grandstand. The players stand in formation on the field. U.S. President John F. Kennedy tosses the coin. The game in progress. Highlights include several passes by future Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Roger Staubach. People cheer and applaud. President Kennedy seated in the grandstand, where he switches seating from the Navy side to the Army side halfway through the game. He cheers for the teams. Roger Staubach throws for two touchdowns, runs for one, and keeps the ball on a run inside the five yard line for another touchdown. The U.S. Navy Midshipmen team wins the game 34-14.