Landing craft (LCVP) heads towards beach at San Clemente Island in United States during amphibious assault landings. Two CH-37 helicopters in flight. The helicopters in formation above water. Coastline of San Clemente Island in the background.
President John F Kennedy arrives on aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in United States. Officers salute President. President's watches plane takes off and carrier missile launch. Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi joins President Kennedy observing military demonstrations from Onslow Beach in North Carolina. Fleet of ships, landing crafts and helicopters fly. U.S. Marines landing on beach.
Activities of United States Marine Corps in Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima, World War II. A trailer, loaded with transformers, is hooked up to a bulldozer. A Landing Ship Tank (LST-792) on a beach with the bow doors open. LSTs on the beach. The trailer on the beach. A marine standing in the foreground. Amphibious crafts (LVTs, LCTs, LCMs) in water. A wrecked Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT). Surf breaks over the wreckage. Two Landing Craft Infantry (LCIs) and an LST on the beach. The bulldozer pulls the trailer. LST-792 with bow up on the beach. A Task Force anchored in the background. Japanese food and destroyed equipment. Shelled-out concrete emplacements. Trucks on the beach. 75mm howitzer crew fire gun which is camouflaged with netting. The Task Force out in the water. Puffs of smoke rise as guns fire. Supplies are loaded onto an LVT. The supplies on the beach. Heavy equipment unloaded. A drag line is off loaded from an LST. Other LSTs anchored in the background. LST-792 in the background. Down beach area towards Mount Suribachi. Heavy equipment unloaded. Signalmen send semaphore. A Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) in the background. A marine squats in volcanic ash. The bow section of LST-792. Surf breaks onto the beach. Men unload 50 gallon oil drums from the LCM.
Beachhead at Normandy, France, following the Allied invasion in June, 1944 during World War 2. Numerous supply ships are in the water offshore. Landing craft are all along the beach. Military vehicles fill the beach itself. British and American troops, ashore, observe ship maneuvering near a floating dock. British infantry pour from the open ramp of large British landing craft, behind some American troops already landed and walking along the shore. American soldiers aboard a landing craft next to a transport ship. Closeup of one of the soldiers in the craft, who wears "Screaming Eagle" patch of 101st Airborne Division. The open deck of an exceptionally large landing craft is seen jammed with U.S. troops, ready to depart from a transport ship. They wave for the camera. An American army truck driving out of British Landing Ship Tank (HM 415) onto a floating dock. It makes its way behind others headed toward the shore. Closeup of soldier wielding a sledge hammer to secure pierced steel plank (Marsden Matting) onto the beach. A DUKW (duck amphibious truck). German prisoners of war, disarmed and under guard, marching casually toward the beach. Closeups of some passing the camera. View from the beach of some wading out to a waiting landing craft. View on the beach of others approaching the beach for evacuation. View shifts to captured German film depicting German coastal defenses and structures of the so-called "Atlantic Wall." German Field Marshal, Erwin Rommel, accompanied by Field Marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, as they inspect the fortifications. Views of coastal guns. Several German soldiers, using a 4-wheel dolly, roll a huge shell and powder charge out of a bunker. They roll it toward a camouflaged railway gun. German soldiers climbing steel stairs up to the railway gun and hand-cranking the barrel into firing elevation. Marshal Rommel accompanied by a Navy admiral and a soldier, walks up to the twin barrels of a coastal defense gun. the pause directly in front of the barrels and converse. The Admiral and the soldier both salute, perhaps acknowledging a comment or order from Rommel. Extreme closeup of the gun barrels.Next, back on the beachhead, Briitish soldiers are seen walking along the beach past knocked out German fortifications and standing near other abandoned ones. A British soldier swings a sledge hammer a reinforced concrete structure on the beach. A French man and woman waving at American troops passing them. British soldiers riding in a British Universal Personnel Carrier, MK II. Two Frenchmen wave at the troops. In nearby town, British soldiers are happily greeted by local inhabitants, including a woman with a baby on the sidewalk; children looking out a window; and people gathered at a street corner. A British soldier holds a French boy and offers him a piece of candy. An American M7 ("Priest") self-propelled 105mm howitzer and armed with a 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun. It moves through an intersection controlled by an MP (military policeman). Another one named "Apache" follows it. Local French inhabitants cheering the Americans as they pass through the town. An American soldier stands near several children as a DUKW amphibious truck veers somewhat, to avoid them while passing. He bends down to talk to the children and shares some candy with them. Infantrymen walk into a town, keeping close to buildings on both sides of the street. French men,women, and children wave and show "V for Victory" signs as some military policemen walk past.
Unusual aircraft with experimental design, Northrop Flying Wing N-306, takes trial flight in California. Northrop N-306 takes off from Roselin Dry Lake and Mojave Desert in California. Northrop N-306 in flight.
Historical sites related to the westward expansion of the United States. The belltower of Mission in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California. Man surrounded by white pigeons. Statue of Saint JunÃpero Serra and a Native American Indian boy at San Juan Capistrano Mission. The bells of San Juan Mission. The interior of San Juan Church in California.
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