Highlights the role of United States Coast Guard in Operation Desert Storm, while stationed in Saudi Arabia. Mechanics work on a radar boat as they check the boat thoroughly. Man with a mask works on a boat. A crack on a boat being placed on a trailer with the help of a crane. Men repair the boat. DC1 Jim Young explains the repair work done on the boat.
Battered German strongholds in Fricourt, France, during Battle of the Somme. Labor Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, repairs a road. Wreckage all around, destroyed fortifications. Dugouts 20- 30 feet under the level of the battlefield. A British soldier in a trench.
From "The Battle of the Somme." British Essex Regiment soldiers wash themselves up at a wayside pool in France during the Battle of the Somme. Soldiers of Seaforth Highlanders assemble for a roll call. Soldiers lined up for the roll call.
An American soldier is shown, among buildings at a military base, kneeling beside a rifle set on a stand for test firing into an earthen berm nearby. He places a round into the chamber and closes the bolt. He then opens the bolt and retrieves the round (which slips from his hand and drops to the ground). Next, two different size rounds of ammunition are shown.
Opening scene shows a French Salmson 2 aircraft with front wheels chocked in a concrete pit and its tail supported to maintain the aircraft level during test firing of its machine gun. Mechanics surround the plane. Its engine is running. A mechanic leans over the Vickers .303 caliber machine gun installed at the front cockpit. (It is synchronized so as to fire through the propeller while the engine is running, however it is not being fired at this time.) Scene shifts to closeup view from front cockpit of engine with cowling covers removed. Gun sight and a scope are seen. Camera pans down revealing top of the cockpit instrument panel where needle/ball, airspeed, clock, and some engine instruments are visible. Glimpse of a side-mounted Vickers machine gun firing on a French Breguet 14. Next, Lieutenant Eddie Rickenbacker (prior to October, 1918, when he was promoted to Captain) is seen in cockpit of his parked Nieuport 28 aircraft. He manipulates the two Vickers machine guns installed on his plane (but does not fire them). Scene shifts to the French Breguet 14, seen firing machine gun, earlier. It is being towed backwards, up and out of the testing pit. (Minor Note: Rickenbacker's 94th Aero Squadron had their Neuports replaced by Spads in July 1918, so the brief scene showing him was shot before then.
United States O-2 plane in flight over Ho Chin Minh Trail near Pleiku Air Force Base in Vietnam. Ho Chin Minh Trail with results of bomb hits in earlier missions. Areas struck by bombs amidst trees. Plane flies over the area.
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