U.S. Mobile Riverine Force comprising of Navy Squadrons and 9th Infantry Division carry out Operation Truong Cong Dinh in Dong Tam, Vietnam. A suspect's ID card is checked by South Vietnamese soldiers. The soldiers help each other up a muddy embankment and to cross a footbridge. A U.S. Army OH-23 Raven helicopter lands.
U.S. Civilian Public Service camp number 3 (Camp Patapsco, in Elkridge, Maryland), run by the American Friends Service Committee of the Quaker Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A sign reads ‘Civilian Public Service Camp No.3’. Building at the camp. Conscientious objectors who choose public service in lieu of military service, arrive and are checked into the camp. The U.S. flag flutters from a pole. The arriving personnel talks to a man at the entrance. The new arrivals pose.
U.S. Civilian Public Service camp number 3, for conscientious objectors, administered by Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee, in the United States. Camp number 3 is Camp Patapsco, in Elkridge, Maryland. Men use lawn mowers outside the camp buildings. Men work in a garden and over the camp houses. A man uses a mower. A man reads from a book. View of camp houses. Men making roof repairs. New recruits arrive at the camp.
U.S. Army paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, bivouacked at British RAF Greenham Common, England, prior to the Operation Market Garden invasion of Holland. Two paratroopers of 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (hearts on their helmets), 101st Airborne Division, clown for the camera with foreign currency. A Lieutenant performs a good-natured inspection of his platoon, for the camera. Paratroopers prepare boxes of demolition charges for air drop. Another Lieutenant of the 502nd PIR inspects members of his Platoon. Soldierss clown around and have fun giving and receiving haircuts. Troopers seated under a tent, sharpening their personal knives and testing the edge by shaving hair on their arms. Group of U.S. Army paratroopers being briefed outside tents and reviewing orientation techniques while one holds a magnetic compass.
Scoreboard reads ‘Next Saturday - USA Bears Vs Brad Bros’. The opposing teams run side by side toward home plate to start the game. One team's bench with players, and bat boys (some barefoot) seated in front of a picket fence, with spectators on benches and a club house behind them. View of game action from spectators perspective, behind home plate. Batters hitting and driving in a run. A lone American soldier watching in midst of the spectators. Players coming off the field to their bench at end of an inning. Spectators in stand watching the game. Items left after the game include several English shilling coins. A man's hand reaches down and picks up two shillings.
U.S. Army Air Force aircraft attack enemy positions on Ballale Island, Papua, New Guinea. U.S. 13th Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers drop bombs over enemy positions on Ballale. Smoke billows up from the explosions.
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