Free French 2nd Armored Division massed after landing on Utah Beach during World War 2. Many M4 Sherman tanks massed together. French troops tighten bogie wheel tracks using a socket wrench. Free French soldiers adjust ammunition loading on a Browning M2 machine gun affixed to a tank.
Aerial view of the countryside in Normandy during World War 2. Huge tanks treads in fields are seen, along with ruined tanks, indicator of previous tank battles. Aerial view of bombed buildings in a village. A destroyed railroad bridge in the Sélune River near Avranches, France after a dynamite bombing. Surrounding railroad near the Sélune River shows craters formed from aerial bombing.
The capture of Avranches, France by U.S. soldiers during Operation Cobra in World War II. The map of Avranches, France superimposed on scenes depicting United States military vehicles moving in Normandy. Half track passes by a road sign “N 137 St. Servan 12 St. Malo 13”. A speeding truck passes by a road sign “Rennes N 137 St Malo”. A large artillery is being pulled by a military vehicle on the N 137 highway in Normandy. Bomber drops bomb over a village in France. View of a map showing “Mortain”. United States infantry engage in street fighting in Mortain, France. A United States soldier fires with rifle upwards during street fighting. A soldier fires bazooka during street fighting. A Churchill Mk VII Crocodile flame thrower tank fires at a house and tree. American soldiers running through burning field during a flame thrower tank attack. Multiple rocket launcher trucks fire rocket artillery. United States soldiers observe rocket artillery on the side of a forest. Map depicts “Argentan” and “Falaise”. Captured German prisoners march away through a destroyed French town. French people welcome United States troops in Paris. Map depicts the Seine River and Paris. Crowds of French men and women giving the “V-Sign” in Paris. French woman clapping her hands. French women crowd a Jeep with U.S. soldiers. Soldiers marching on the Avenue de Champs-Élysées, with the Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) behind. Free France General Jacques Philippe Leclerc and an American general salute in the Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France). Crowds of Frenchmen cheer and welcome Allied forces after liberation from Nazi Germany. A French man waves his flag while he holds on to tree branches. Map depicting the eastern France, Luxembourg and western Germany superimposed over scenes of marching soldiers. Television host Alexander Scourby delivers a conclusion. Closing credits.
Totsk nuclear exercise (codename “Snowball”) undertaken by the Soviet Army in Orenburg, Soviet Union during the Cold War. An immense mushroom cloud forms after a 40-kiloton (170 TJ) RDS-4 atomic bomb detonates 1,150 ft. (350 meters) above the Totskoye range.
Formation of Lake Chagan (or Lake Balapan, and sometimes called "Atomic Lake") by the Chagan nuclear test conducted as part of the Soviet Union's Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program during the Cold War. A wired atomic bomb seen installed at ground level. Infrastructure around the dry bed of the Chagan River. A clock and oscilloscope during countdown. A 140-kiloton nuclear bomb explodes in a 178-metre-deep (584 ft) hole in the dry bed of the Chagan River, creating a crater that would become Lake Chagan. A massive dark cloud from nuclear blast and soil from the dry riverbed. A man walking near the blast crater. Aerial view of the Lake Chagan crater without water. Bulldozers pushing soil to break through the Chagan River. Flood water filling the crater of Lake Chagan as water flows from the Chagan River to Lake Chagan. Scientists in a boat retrieve a sampling device from the water. Female Russian scientists test water samples from Lake Chagan inside a lab. A woman scientist points to waveform on an oscilloscope. A man wearing snorkel gear jumps into Lake Chagan. Aerial view of Lake Chagan.
United States soliders of the 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry evacuate Vietnamese men and women into a helicopter during the Vietnam War (Operation Wallowa). United States soldiers leading Vietnamese villagers, some are women holding infants, to a helicopter (Bell UH-1 Iroquois, also known as "Huey" helicopters). A villager wearing a nón lá. A soldier drags a woman away. Vietnamese citizens inside a Huey helicopter.
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