Searchlights and sirens at night. B-18s at Mitchel Field taxiing in and airmen looking at map before taking off for test "bombing" of a wide area of the United States northeast during World War II. Cameramen at the field. Airmen boarding B-18 and B-18 taking off. Close up of button worn by civilian observers (many are Legionnaires from the American Legion), with label "Aircraft Warning Service - Volunteer Observor." Shows sky watchers at posts observing aircraft overhead and starting air raid drill. Telephone switchboard operators relaying information to airports. View of large wall map and controllers in pursuit plane headquarters noting details of incoming air raid report. Fighter pilots of U.S. Army Air Corps scramble at base and run to their waiting P-40 aircraft to intercept the bombers. P-40C aircraft conclude test and are then seen in formation flying over New York City. Skyline and skyscrapers of Manhattan Island seen below with fighter aircraft in formation.
Remains of the Lockheed XP-38 that crashed at Mitchel Field, New York, the day before, after a cross-continental flight from March Field, California. The airplane was flown by Lieutenant Ben Kelsey, who escaped without injury. But the airplane was totally destroyed.
1st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Delaware. A Shau Valley filled with smoke and pockmarked with craters all over. April 1968.
A Military Police station. 18th Military Police brigade signs in Saigon. Military Policemen check M-60 machine guns and radio in the M 151 armored jeep. They get into jeep. They discuss among themselves and drive off on patrol. They drive in armored jeeps in the streets of Saigon.
Two Military Policemen (MPs) driving the M-151 armored jeep in Saigon streets. They discuss among themselves. The jeep passes a security post. The guard at the security post and the MP in the jeep, exchange thumbs-up with each other.
Two V-100 armored cars on their way in Saigon. The M-151 armored jeeps and other military vehicles follow them. They pass through a village. A board says 'TRAM KiEM-SOAT'. Other vehicles pass through.
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