Activities aboard USS Ranger in Alameda, California. Airmen along flight deck of USS Ranger. F-14 aircraft taxis. Landing gears of aircraft while it taxis. Pilot and second aviator in cockpit of F-14 wearing helmets with VF-1 Wolfpack insignia. "Lt. Rick Jack Rack-attack" stenciled on front cockpit. Truck tows aircraft. A-7B Corsair II taxis on flight deck with folded wings. Airman directs planes on deck. Smoke emitted from aircraft. Turboprop Aircraft taxis.
Component of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam, 2nd Field Forces, 199th Light Infantry Brigade in fight with Vietcong. F-4 Phantom jets in far distance drop napalm. Explosions on ground. F-4 drops napalm. Explosion in woods. Military trucks and other vehicles parked in the foreground. Huge clouds of smoke rise from explosion. UH-1 helicopter on ground ridden with bullet holes. Wounded and dead Vietcong fighters on the ground. One of them is sitting up, a seemingly uninjured prisoner of war. (Vietnam War period).
Mayor F. H. La Guardia gives a speech in the Mayor's Office in City Hall. He says that any peace talk by Hitler is a sheer nonsense and there should be a complete assurance of permanent peace in all the countries including U.S. Various views of newspaper reporters as they listen and note down the speech. The cover of a Program Booklet reads 'US Civilian Defense - F. H. LaGuardia.'
Flight deck operations aboard USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) in Korean War Theater. United States jet fighter aircraft lands on flight deck of aircraft carrier. The aircraft crashes the barrier. Activities of crew members as the plane lands. F4U Corsair fighter aircraft taxis on flight deck. Pilots seated in the cockpit of the planes. Plane taxis onto wall of flight deck. F4U Corsair aircraft with wings folded.
Swift Boat 'Point Grey' underway in Vietnam. A hilly shoreline in the background. A small island in the far background. A PCF-3 Swift Boat is docked at a pier at An-Thoi area. Captain Shepherd (U.S. Navy) on wooden dock area being instructed in firing of M-70 grenade launcher. The captain fires a grenade and lowers his gun. Lieutenant F.D. Scovel fires an M-79 launcher. Two Vietnamese look on. A harbor area in view. A small island in the far background. Lieutenant F.D. Scovel fires a grenade. Captain Shepherd fires the M-79 grenade launcher. The grenade strikes the water. The Swift Boat at the pier.
United States Ship Hancock CV-19 during Project Steam in Pacific Ocean. Few crew members rig U.S. Vought F7U-3 Cutlass on catapult. U.S. F7U-3 Cutlass ready on catapult and then takes off. Crew readying another aircraft on catapult.
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