General Curtis E. Lemay arrives for a fact finding visit to the United States Ship America (CVA-66). General Lemay, Rear Admiral Leroy V. Swanson and Vice Admiral William F. Bringle in the Chief of Staff cabin. General Lemay holds a coffee and cigar and chats with Swanson. Pictures of naval commanders on cabin wall behind. Plate over door reads 'Chief of Staff Cabin'.
General Curtis E. Lemay arrives for a fact finding visit to the United States Ship America (CVA-66). Officers in a cabin with plaque over doorway 'Command Center' written on it. Books in shelves at the cabin. Name plate over door reads 'Flag Room'. Admiral Leroy V. Swanson escorts General Lemay to the Ready Room and introduces officers to General Lemay. Vice Admiral William F. Bringle watches as Commander Wayne Smith of Air Wing 6, talks to General Lemay, who smokes a cigar. General Lemay autographs some issue from Commander. He listens to Commander Charles B. Hunter, Commanding Officer of VA-85, in ready room. Tag on a wall map reads 'Hanoi is defeated'. General Lemay and officers observe a large board containing display of radar photographs. He shakes hands with other officers in ready room.
Opening scene shows closeup of a member of the U.S. Army First Infantry Division Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol unit (LRRP) wearing a black beret with parachutist's badge. In background,LRRP members watch as an instructor demonstrates how to field strip a Soviet AK-47 assault rifle. Scene shifts to viewpoint of soldiers watching the instructor. Tents are seen in the background. Closeups of instructor show master parachutist badge on his black beret. Scene shifts again to a large sign containing a large painted logo with a picture of a Vietcong in the center, surrounded by images of black berets. The combat infantryman badge is shown at the top and 1st Infantry Division and MACV recondo badges appear at opposite sides of the sign. (Note: LRRP Units were Airborne, Special Forces. The LRRP Unit of the 1st Infantry Division, shown in these scenes, on January 1st, was, at that time, designated: Company F of the 52nd Infantry Regiment.) (Vietnam War period).
Camera pans over a closeup of British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival who was captured in the fall of Singapore. American Lieutenant-general Jonathan Wainwright, smoking the stub of a cigar, as he sits with U.S.Major General Edward P. King, Jr. (Both were imprisoned in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.) A naval officer POW posing in front of a tree. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, in pith helmet, smoking a cigarette. POWs eating and conversing with Japanese interpreters, (One POW appears to be U.S. Brigadier General George F. Moore, who was imprisoned along with Wainright and King, in the Philippines.) View of POWs in a library, where one is reading from a script, while being recorded. Other POWs looking at documents.
Aboard the carrier Coral Sea, United States Navy fighter Sky Ray undergoes take off and landing tests in United States. Sky Ray also known as Douglas F4D takes off and lands back after a short flight.
Animated map showing American 3rd Army advance toward St. Mihiel, France, during World War 2. Advance elements of General Patton's U.S. 3rd Army cross Meuse River in a French civilian's barge and proceed through town of St. Mihiel. A U.S. Army combat photographer is seen taking pictures at bank of river. U.S. Infantrymen make their way through virtually deserted town of St Mihiel. U.S. field artillery fire on German positions along the Meuse. U.S. infantrymen lying prone beside a large barn.US soldier photographing others as they rest on a sidewalk.Two U.S. soldiers running up and over a wooden bridge.American forces driven back by heavy German resistance and then resume advance after U.S. artillery fire neutralizes defending German forces. However, still under heavy fire, American infantrymen carry small boats to cross the Moselle River. U.S. troops paddle across the river in a boat at Dornot, France, September 1944. Railroad pedestrian crossover bridge visible. (Note: Unit making the river crossing was 5th Division, 11th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, E and F company.Lieutenant Colonel Kelly B, Lemmon Jr. was battalion commander.)
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