The United States Marines in Korea during the Korean War. A burning village. Marines advance through a burning village. Smoke columns rise form a building on fire. A collapsed wall in the foreground
The damaged structures in Korea during the Korean War. Aerial view of a bombed bridge. Aerial view of a snow covered terrain. View of the mountains near the bridge.
A Landing Craft Infantry underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. View of a island. A man sucks lemon. A Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) passes. A man handles lines on a LCI deck. Men stand on forecastle of a LCI staring at the island. Men work on the LCI. A LCI underway. A United States Navy OS2U Kingfisher aircraft fly overhead. Island in the background. 20mm gun crew on forecastle of LCI fire on the island.
Crew aboard Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) in Dong Ha, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. LCM-8 passes. A LCM-8 underway. Coxswain of the LCM-8 guiding craft into area at Cau Viet. A LCM-8 underway at a slow speed. A fork lift loads crate aboard LCM-8. Operator of forklift. Crate being dropped on deck of LCM-8. Operator backs fork lift away. Supplies being loaded onto a LCM. Cargo in tank deck area of LCM-8. LCM-8 underway in river. A man in the foreground. Wheel and floor gauges at foot of a coxswain. He moves wheel with feet. Coxswain uses feet to steer LCM-8. Cargo stacked on LCM-8. Two men in the foreground. Coxswain lites up cigarette. Ramp at Dong Ha. A LCM-8 in the foreground. Ramp of the LCM-8 being lowered to beach area at Dong Ha. Cargo in hold of LCM-8. Several men stand nearby. LCM-8 at ramp. Forklift moves aboard for off loading crates.
A film titled 'Paratroopers Maneuver' about the British and U.S. paratroopers training in England during World War 2. Formation of Allied C-47 Skytrain in flight. Paratroopers in training seen in aircraft as they prepare to jump from the aircraft over RAF Ramsbury (USAAF Station 469) in Wiltshire county. Paratrooper soldiers inside the aircraft hookup to static lines. The jump master is photographed, by a camera strapped to his chest, as he descends with a cigar in mouth. Unusual view of face of paratrooper as he descends in mid air before parachute opens, and then relief and smile on his face as the chute opens and slows his descent.The paratroopers jump, descend and hit ground. The static lines are pulled back into the aircraft. Several paratroopers are pulled by strong breeze across the ground, before they can spill their chutes. One paratrooper being treated for injury suffered from collision with another trooper. Preparations made inside an aircraft to drop supplies. Supplies in parachutes dropped and land on ground. (These shots are taken flying just to the north of Ramsbury village and looking down on the woods and fields that are divided by Hilldrop Lane.) The airdrop of supplies is made by C-47 aircraft. The supplies descend and hit ground. (The C-47 aircraft in low flight formation drop the supplies in fields to the east of Hilldrop Lane just north of Ramsbury.)
A film about the activities in Washington DC during World War II. On 2nd January 1942 the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt with delegates from 26 nations sign a mutual aid pact in the White House. View of the contents of the pact and the signed pact.
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