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U.S. Air Force airlifts French paratroopers to Indochina.
Film opens showing entrance to cockpit of a U.S. Air Force Troop Carrier Douglas C-124 Globemaster aircraft en route from France to Indochina. A pilot is seen at the controls in the left seat, and the Aircraft Commander is observing from behind and between the pilots' seats. Close-up of number 3 and 4 engines with propellers turning as viewed from copilot's window. Two crew members are seen asleep on bunks in rear of flight deck compartment. Another is napping in a bulkhead seat. More views of engines running and propellers turning. Glimpse downward of land and clouds below. Close-up of Copilot in right seat of cockpit, wearing headset and making an announcement through his microphone. View of French paratroopers seated in cargo compartment, listening to the announcement from loudspeaker above them. Next, a French paratrooper passenger is seen opening contents of a flight lunch package. He uses the tiny can opener included in the package to open a can (with some difficulty). Paratroopers eating flight lunches.Two of the passengers playing chess on a miniature board with plug-in chessmen. Close-up of the chessboard. Co-pilot speaking on intercom again and a French paratrooper, wearing headset and microphone, speaking as well (likely translating). Glimpse of engine running on left wing. A different person (not in flight suit) at the controls in copilot's seat. The crew's Flight Engineer making throttle adjustments at his panel. View on the ground of French greeting party on the destination airfield to meet the arriving aircraft. Arriving C-124 aircraft taxiing on inboard engines only, as it proceeds along layers of pierced steel plank (Marsden matting) comprising the surface of airfield ramp. Views of French military waiting to greet arriving paratroopers. The aircrew's loadmaster lowering one of the aircraft's front loading ramps. French paratrooper passengers use it to leave the aircraft. (The other ramp is partially down and contains cartons and boxes.) Close-up of a French major in the greeting party. A woman greeting troopers, individually, as come down the ramp from the aircraft. Some French aircraft lined up on ramp, in background. (They appear to be Grumman F8F Bearcat aircraft.) Glimpse of an armed French Colonial (Tirailleurs Sénégalais) sentry standing near the aircraft. Troopers carrying cartons of rations from the aircraft and joining others preparing to board trucks for a ride to their quarters. Uniformed French soldiers in the greeting party help load heavy crate into an Army truck. Some troopers leave on trucks.
USS Gloucester (PF-22) move towards Saigon and sailors sitting at sidewalk tables at Majestic Hotel in Saigon,Vietnam.
Sailors aboard USS Gloucester (PF-22) during a training program in Saigon, Vietnam. Saigon harbor- various ships at river. Sailors aboard USS Gloucester (PF-22) and they stand beside railings as it moves towards Saigon. Sailors sitting at sidewalk tables at Majestic Hotel, Saigon. Three sailors sitting at table.
Trainees firing 40mm gun and on 3"/50 caliber gun aboard USS Gloucester (PF-22) in Saigon, French IndoChina
Training program aboard USS Gloucester (PF-22) in Saigon, French IndoChina. Trainees getting checked out on 40mm gun. Trainees firing 40mm gun. Trainees on 3" /50 caliber gun. Sea in the background.
U.S. Army soldiers in trenches during atomic bomb blast in Nevada desert.
Nevada testing ground. Operation Tumbler-Snapper U.S. Army soldiers in trenches crouch down and cover their ears as they prepare for an atomic bomb detonation blast. Flash on horizon as bomb is detonated in nuclear test. Men emerge from trenches and point while mushroom cloud from explosion rises before them. View of blast wave with heavy dust approaching camera position. Dust cloud from blast hits men while many still have their heads above ground level. A soldier covers his mouth as dust from blast wave hits him.
Polish May Day parade march, President Boleslav Bierut and Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewcz in review stand of parade in Warsaw during the Cold War
View of May Day Parade in Warsaw during the Cold War. Warsaw written in Russian (Varshava). Polish women raise their arms with clenched fists in May Day Parade. President of the People’s Republic of Poland, Dr. Boleslaw Bierut, raise his hands greeting Polish citizens in May Day Parade. Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewcz, beside President Boleslaw Bierut, claps during May Day Parade in Warsaw. Polish Military official in May Day Parade. Polish citizens during May Day Parade in Warsaw.
May Day Parade with posters of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin, Romanian President Petru Groza in attendance in parade in Bucharest during the Cold War
May Day Parade in Bucharest, likely in Aviatorilor Boulevard, full of participants and decorated with posters of Lenin and Stalin during the Cold War. Women clap their hands in the air as they march in unison during the May Day Parade. Female communist party members wave flowers as they march with large poster of Lenin and Stalin. Officials of the Romanian Communist Party on review stand. President Petru Groza waves at crowd from review stand of May Day Parade. Romanian citizens carrying posters of Lenin and Stalin participate in May Day Parade.
