The 1st Infantry Division Stand Down Center of the United States Army in Vietnam. Soldiers play miniature golf. The yellow colored golf ball on miniature golf course. A soldier plays shot and talks to another. He afterwards plays another shot and drives the ball inside the target. (Vietnam War period).
A big white cross monument with inscription 'Lest we forget' on edge of prison camp grounds. Soldier's line up in formation. Japanese soldiers blow buglers and serve as honor guards. Japanese official salutes to pay homage and thereafter reads out a speech from a paper in Japanese. He places a wreath at the monument and salutes followed by British and Australian officials. (World War II period).
Allied officers move towards a large cross monument at a Japanese prison camp in World War II. One of the officers places a wreath below the memorial and salutes to pay homage. Other soldiers and troops also salute.
Prisoners from Phillipines line up in the compound of a Japanese prison camp. A Japanese officer reads out an announcement from a paper as prisoners and other officials look on. Another official reads out from a paper and prisoners write with ink pens onto a sheet of paper. Officer salutes and prisoners bow in response. Prisoners are released from the prison camp and they march out with their bedding. (World War II period).
United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft flies over Bangkok in Siam, now Thailand, where river Chao Phraya River passes across the city. Aircraft drops two bombs on both sides of the Rama VI bridge which links the eastern and western banks of the river. Bombs impact and smoke rises. Bangkok is engulfed in a sheet of thick smoke. Aircraft flies over the city. The B-24 drops two more bombs close to the first two targets. Bombs impact and smoke rises upwards. (World War II period).
AZON one of the first smart bombs developed by United States, for destroying narrow railway bridges in Burma, being tested. An AZON marked 62 is dropped much above the surface by United States B -24 Liberator aircraft. The bomb drops and strikes an isolated area and an explosion occurs. AZON is officially designated as VB-1 i.e. vertical bomb which is a guided weapon to maximize damage to target and minimize civilian destruction. Various dimensions of VB-1 being explained like, battery ,gyro stabilizer,radio receiver and antenna. Bomb releases and explosion occurs. (World War II period).
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