Inshore Fire Support Ship, USS Carronade (IFS-1), underway in waters of Vietnam, during Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III. Sailor in combat gear leans over rail of USS Carronade (IFS-1) and makes notes in a pad. A U.S. O-1 spotter plane flies low past the ship and crewman waves to direct it. Shoreline is visible in background. Sailors perform maintenance on rocket launcher. Two sailors sand outside of barrel on 5 inch gun.
United States 303rd Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division destroys bridge in Haguenau, France. Scene of bridge and post. Demolition charge is layed to blow-up the bridge. Soldiers run from the bridge. Soldiers come out of trees in snow covered area. View of giant explosion and debris raining down as bridge is destroyed by demolition charges. Cloud of smoke rises. Scene of destroyed bridge. Smoke behind houses. View of another bridge being destroyed by demolition charges. Small Infantry rear guard fires at German forces from edge of river and retreats across bridge
March 6, 1945 A bulldozer drives toward an overturned tank truck as a jeep speeds past in front of it. The dozer slowly moves past the wrecked tank truck. A tracked vehicle (weasel) drives down a hill, pulling a trailer. Closeup of Japanese mortar shell with fins, laying in some straw. Closeup from rear, of U.S. marine firing a weapon (possibly a "grease gun") from a protected position. Another marine holding an M1 Garand rifle.
Front view closeup of U.S. Marine posing with a Browning M1917 30 cal light machine gun. He is positioned in a dug in emplacement. View from behind, of two marines at the gun. View from side of two marines manning another 30 cal machine gun, next to some ammunition cannisters. A front view of the marines and the machine gun. The marines smoke cigarettes. More closeups.
Armistice celebrations in New York City. Large smiling and jubilant crowd gathers on roads and sidewalks. Ticker tape and ribbons float in air down from skyscrapers and buildings. Cars and trucks on the road. The Flag of United States on a building. Happy, cheering, raucous crowd. Men in crowd tip their hats. Clock on road shows time as 35 minutes past 2. Cars on road. People stand beside roads and cheer.
Silhouette of the Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) and the Victory Column (Siegessäule, Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. Then pedestrians and vehicles are seen around the Statue of Frederick the Great along Unter den Linden boulevard. Also seen is statue in Siegesallee created by sculptor Reinhold Begas (and likely August Krauss) in 1900, commemorating German Emperor William I. Bust on the left of the William I statue commemorates Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, and the bust on the right is of Otto von Bismarck. Next, is shown the National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Nationaldenkmal) an equestrian statue of the first German Emperor Wilhelm I, on the west side of the Berlin City Palace (Schloßpl., 10178 Berlin, Germany). View from a camera moving away from the Victory Column on the Königsplatz across from the Reichstag. Final image is an iron Statue of Paul von Hindenburg in front of the Victory Column.
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