A film shows the lumber industry in Taiwan during Japanese colonial period. Taiwanese lumberjacks at work in mahogany forest. One is silhouetted against the sky as he climbs a tall mahogany tree trunk devoid of branches. He descends using ropes. A supervisor watches as a lumberjack uses a long saw to cut on a tree trunk that has already been cut from the other side. Camera pans up the tree.and back down again as he completes his cut and the tree falls to the ground. The base of the fallen tree trunk is seen to be hollow. Views of other trees as they are felled by lumberjacks. Closeup of the stump remaining from one. A log cut from a tree is lowered by ropes. Glimpse of valley across from the forest. Closeup off a steam whistle blowing. Closeup of a steam engine driver and arm in motion. A long log being lowered by a cable. Other cables seen strung across a rustic work building from which steam is venting. The log is deposited on a pile of others. A steam driven cable pulls logs on a small rail car atop a small gauge track. A very large log is lowered atop those a;ready on the rail car. Men with long pikes help position the log. Smoke blows out of a narrow metal chimney. A train carrying logs on rail cars moves through the forest. Views of a steam locomotive pulling a train of cars carrying logs.
French gunner looks out from one of a long line of Douglas A-26 bombers flown by French Air Force in Indochina, as they taxi for takeoff. Very low altitude views from A-26 showing a church and other substantial building. A pilot at the controls in cockpit. Aircraft taxi on an airstrip. 'BC-579' written on an aircraft. An aerial view of the land. One aircraft drops bombs. The bombers in flight. Three bombers in formation flight. Flight of three French fighter aircraft.
United States Army soldiers patrol the streets and supply food to people in Dominican Republic in 1965 crisis. American soldiers seen giving food and aid to civilians and children in the Dominican Republic. The 1st Infantry Division and 1st Cavalry Division soldiers in Vietnam to counter North Vietnamese aggression. 173rd Airborne Brigade deployed from Okinawa lands in Vietnam and seen unloading from aircraft, and in the field. A brigade of the 101st Airborne division seen debarking from ship in a deployment in Vietnam. 1st Infantry Division Big Red One troops emerging from landing ships on a beach in Vietnam. 1st Cavalry Air Mobile helicopter taking off from deck of an Aircraft Carrier. Aerial view of helicopter of same division seen in flight and firing rockets at target in jungle area in Vietnam. Close up view of rockets being fired from helicopter rocket launcher system. View of construction underway by U.S. Army engineers building base facilities in Cam Ranh Bay on South China Sea in Vietnam. Cranes seen at unfinished dock facilities, and engineers position giant pilings. Cargo in nets unloaded by crane from ship to boat. Views of munitions storage areas in Vietnam, along with crated equipment and oil drums. Group of Army helicopters on the ground preparing for takeoff. Helicopters taking off and in flight as seen from ground and also seen in aerial views in flight. U.S. Army soldiers jump out of helicopters at landing zone. Group of U.S. Army soldiers on patrol in Vietnam and crossing a stream. Artillery piece unloaded from a helicopter. American soldier throws a grenade at a structure in the jungle and explosion is seen. U.S. soldiers fire mortar and reload. U.S. artillery fired on battlefield and reloaded. Soldiers emerge from back of Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) and attack Viet Cong enemy positions in battle.
Men practicing rifle shooting in Long Branch, Ontario. They pose holding the rifles. They practice shooting the rifle in a field. Target boards in the foreground. They hit the target boards. Trees in the background.
War production workers during World War 2. Two women work on installation for fuel and oil lines in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California. Old men do bench work. They work with various instruments and equipment. Master mechanist instructs a young woman in use of a metal lathe.
Assembly lines of A-20 fighter-bomber, B-17F Super Flying Fortress and C-47 Army cargo transport plane at Douglas Aircraft Plant in Long Beach, California during World War II. Workers work on engines of various planes in assembly lines.
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