An enactment showing a North Vietnamese Interrogating Officer sitting at his desk as a guard brings a Prisoner of War for interrogation. Officer asks questions and prisoner replies to them. Officer takes down notes. He also gives some books to the prisoner. Guard takes away the Prisoner of War.
An enactment shows Captain Hamilton J. McCubbin and Dr. Walter Goffman in a discussion in United States. The two of them discuss a matter of grave importance.
Dr. John A Flag being interviewed. He answers the questions put up before him during the interview.
Importance of Army being explained in the light of increasing Soviet and Chinese military strength, expanding communism, Cuban missile crisis, Berlin crisis and Korean War. Soviet military parade in Red Square. Chinese Army forces parade in China in review. U.S. Army soldiers in combat in Korean War, with soldier firing machine gun and two soldiers firing a mortar. American tank on streets of Berlin during Berlin Crisis. Fidel Castro speaking from podium at a rally in Cuba. Cuban rebels marching. Still image of Soviet missile sites on Cuban soil during Cuban Missile Crisis. American soldiers and marines in Indochina and soldiers wading in water. A map shows the regions of major conflicts in the world. Three types of wars being enumerated including general war, limited war and insurgencies. A map shows American Army establishments in the country.
Opening scene shows sign at Fort Monroe, Virginia, Headquarters of the United States Continental Army Command. U.S. Army soldiers come pouring out of their barracks and assemble in formation as non-commissioned officers inspect their personal gear. Inspectors look over closely parked armored vehicles.Troops rush to board CH-47 Helicopter transports. Sign identifying Headquarters United states Strike Command. Views of Exercise Delawar, a United States-Iran joint armed forces combat readiness operation conducted in April 1964 in Iran. (Delawar is a Persian word meaning courageous.) Paratroopers lined up and inspecting their gear as they ready to board through rear door of a transport aircraft.View of Pilot and Copilot in cockpit. Paratroopers jumping from the aircraft. Formation of U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft dropping paratroopers, with chutes clearly visible as they descend. View of troopers exiting rear cargo door of C-130 aircraft. Ground view of paratroopers landing on Iranian desert. Some set up field artillery pieces, others deploy on foot, and some ride in trucks pulling artillery pieces. Change of scene to North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Combat Operations Center. Inside, General John Koehler Gerhart, Commander of NORAD, sits at a deck in a control room with several other officers. Next, officers and non-commissioned officers, e.g. a Master Sergeant, who regularly work in the center are seen at their stations. Army Air Defense personnel run from their ready room to man batteries of Nike-Hercules missiles. An air defense radar site, part of the early warning system. Missiles of the Nike-Hercules battery being raised to firing positions.
Civilians crowded atop a U.S. Army DUKW (amphibious truck) during Army efforts to help them following the Louisiana Hurricane in 1965. Front view of DUKW moving amidst smaller civilian boats. Men in DUKW distributing bread and other food to local people. Men women and children entering an Army tent to receive food.
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