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German invasion of Norway in World War II.
Norwegian citizens flee Oslo in advance of invading German troops, who are seen marching into the Capital city during World War 2. Street scenes as the German troops occupy Oslo. Offshore, German warships are seen, including an F-class escort vessel (Flottenbegeleiter), the F-26. German naval guns firing and torpedo launched. Norwegian vessels being sunk. View of Norwegian harbor with parts of sunken vessels seen above the water.
U.S. Marine Air and Ground teams in action during Vietnam War.
Excerpt from film entitled "Counterattack- Marine Air Ground Team," about U.S. Marines in the Vietnam War. Marines are seen walking cautiously across irrigation ditches in cultivated region of South Vietnam. Scene shifts to one marine looking down at a hole where smoke is rising at the base of a berm. Vietnamese families evacuating their village where marines are burning houses and huts. View from riverbank strung with barbed wire, where marines are relaxing while gunfire is heard and black smoke rises from fires burning across the river. Next, a city is seen jammed with Vietnamese refugees with their belongings (some being assisted by ARVN soldiers) making their way through the crowds. A fallen civilian seen on the ground, victim of the Viet Cong (VC). Buildings and places of worship severely damaged by the VC. A bearded old Vietnamese man wearing a non la (conical hat) and smoking a cigarette, is questioned by a U.S. soldier. (Narrator says civilians are reluctant to say much for fear of reprisals.) Marines walking slowly through a village, and then through areas of trees and brush, open areas, and dense jungle. View of underbelly of a U.S. jet fighter bomber in flight over water, carrying two BLU-10 250 lb Napalm Bombs. A Marine A-4 Skyhawk jet aircraft dives down and drops a bomb that explodes with large fireball and black smoke. Closeup of an A-4 in flight. View of pilot in cockpit and sound of conversation with ground controllers. Pilot asks if there are any more requests from the "grunts." Anachronistic Inserted images of two Marine F-4 aircraft from VMFA 232 (Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232). They display "Red Devil" insignia on their sides. (They flew ground support in F-4s from Chu Lai Air base, Vietnam, commencing 1969.) View shifts to Marines "Grunts" in sandy area, with one communicating by radio. Next, a jet fighter bomber swoops down and unloads bombs that explode in succession on the ground. Marines in heavily sandbagged trenches. A jet fighter flies low overhead at very high speed. Another succession of bomb bursts is seen. Sea-going Marines arrive and exit Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, at landing zone. Views of Marines exiting the choppers and then a variety of views of CH-46s in flight. Closeup of one in flight. View of interior, with a squad of Marines, inside, in battle gear. CH-46s landing and taking off.
Colonel Kirkpatrick in a meeting with the staff members of Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Colonel Kirkpatrick, the Commanding Officer in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Colonel Kirkpatrick works at a desk in his office. U.S. and Oak Ridge flags in the background. A meeting of Clinton Engineer Works. Facilities and Service staff in the meeting. A man takes notes. A map on a wall in the background. The Colonel addresses the meeting. F. F. Kromer is included in the meeting. Draws a diagram titled 'Alamogordo' that shows a tower (likely atomic bomb test tower), a photo location, headquarters location at 17,000 yards from the tower, and Control area at 10,000 yards from the tower.
Men and aviation mechanics work on aircraft on USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in the Caribbean.
USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in the Caribbean. Men pack parachute riggers in the parachute loft. Aviation mechanics work on the engine of a Grumman S2F tracker aircraft's propeller. Men work on the wing fold of an S2F.
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with U.S. and Iranian officers aboard USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) off the coast of San Diego.
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi aboard USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) tied up at a pier in San Diego, California. View of saluting battery firing 7 rounds before scene shifts to the Shah and United States Navy and Iranian officers walking along the flight deck past U.S. Navy Douglas AD Skyraider aircraft. Shah and entourage walk along flight deck. U.S. Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft seen on deck. Several U.S. warships are seen in San Diego harbor in the background. Shah's flag flies from mainmast of the Valley Forge.
Modified C-135 aircraft of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) serve as "Combat Lightning" aircraft in Vietnam War
Opening scene shows two U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchief aircraft taking off in pre-dawn from Vietnam on a bombing mission, in 1966, during the Vietnam War. Next, the F-105s are seen diving and dropping bombs that explode into fire and smoke on the ground. Closeup of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) KC-135 aircraft in flight. It has been modified to serve as as a "Combat Lightning" aircraft that serves as a communication link between the Tactical Air Reporting Center at Monkey Mountain, near Danang, Vietnam and ground radar, airborne radar and any U.S. aircraft operating over North Vietnam. KC-135 "Combat Lightning" crew members are seated in a briefing room at the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, in Thailand. A briefing officer explains their mission, using charts and a map labeled SECRET Noforn (no foreign access) showing Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin. The briefer points to an area in the Gulf, and sketches a figure eight, showing where and how the KC-135 should maneuver in a holding pattern during its mission. Crew members rise and leave at the end of the briefing. View of a Strategic Air Command EC-135L that arrived on May 29, 1967, along with another, to support 24 hour "Combat Lightning" operations. Ground crewman directs the EC-135L as it taxis out and then takes off, past a C-130 aircraft holding short of the active runway. (Narrator notes that by the end of July, 1967, there were four "Combat Lightning" C-135 aircraft operating at U-Tapao airfield.) View from above of EC-135L aircraft in flight above clouds, en route to its assigned location over the Gulf of Tonkin. View of radio operator inside the aircraft, who is in radio contact with U-Tapao and the aircraft they are going to relieve. View of map showing their destination figure-eight holding pattern. Radio operator establishes the same contacts used by the aircraft they are relieving, to assure continuity of communications. Remainder of the film contains extended views of the radio operator at his station and of the EC-135 aircraft in flight. Near the end, the crew's Armaments and Electronics Technician is seen pulling a piece of malfunctioning electronic gear from a rack and replacing it with a spare, stored nearby.
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