A helicopter in flight as it releases leaflets encouraging Viet Cong to defect. South Vietnamese soldiers mounting loudspeakers on a boat for broadcasting to people along the shore. Vietnamese people, in traditional dress, propel large narrow river boats, by hand, using twin poles. Former Viet Cong who have changed sides and now support South Vietnam. South Vietnamese operate a vehicle equipped with a movie projector and loudspeaker. Children on the side of the road. A U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) Sergeant and South Vietnamese Special Forces personnel, training South Vietnam regional defense forces in use of firearms, including M79 grenade launcher. (Vietnam War period).
German Kaiser Wilhelm II walks among German troops assembled for inspection in Berlin, Germany at outbreak of World War 1. The Kaiser and senior commanders review the troops on parade. The last contingent in the parade comprises civilian officials in top hats. French Prime Minister, Alexandre Ribot, is saluted by a military honor guard as he exits a building. He doffs his hat and turns in deference, as Raymond Poincaré, President of France exits behind him. They both enter a waiting car, followed by the French Minister of War, Jean Brun., who joins them. As they are being made comfortable in the car, French General Ferdinand Foch, exits the building (wearing a great coat) and is escorted by another General. In Russia, Emperor, Tsar nicholas ll, leads military commanders as they review a contingent of Russian guards in formation on the platform of a train station in Moscow. Camera pans across crowds filling the Palace Square, St. Petersburg, upon the declaration of war on 20, July, 1914. Base of the Alexander Column visible in center of crowd. Russian troops file into well established trenches. Huge explosions raise tons of earth amongst the trenches. Troops flee for safety. Many take cover in large shell craters. Several fall to machine gun fire, near barbed wire. A book is opened to a page entitled: "Military Program Proletarian Revolution" (in Russian). German troops are seen from above and behind sheltered in a trench with a desolate battlefield in front of them. Closeup of the troops. Next, Russian troops who died are seen in a water-filled trench. One is holding an M1891/Mosin–Nagant firle. Closeup of another soldier, covered in mud leaning against sandbags. Bodies of two soldiers at a pond of water in their trench. One is immersed, with face up, in the pond and the other is reaching down into it. What appear to be the bodies of soldiers entangled in barbed wire at edge of trench..
U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at desert training centers in California. Half-track mounted with 50 cal Machine Gun moves. A tank moves on. A soldier on truck and another soldier on ground. Many camouflaged tanks move ahead. Soldiers on the barbwire boarder. A soldier in a trench. Another soldier with a gun inside a foxhole. A soldier digging trench. Two soldier in trench aims M1 Bazooka. Soldiers on the barbwire boarder. Anti tank mine field. Three soldiers unloading mines from a truck. 155 mm Howitzer camouflaged. Four soldiers take stance with 75 mm AA (anti aircraft) gun in preparation for firing. A soldier sees through binoculars. Some more soldiers near a camouflaged trench. A soldier making calculation on the map using drafting instruments. Another soldier sights through transit.. (World War II period).
Map shows coast of Europe with discussion of various places for a possible Allied invasion of France during World War 2. Normandy was chosen. German coastal defenses on English Channel and Atlantic shore (Atlantic Wall). German officers inspect defenses. Map highlights Cherbourgh, Le Havre, and Caen in Normandy. American workers building war machinery in defense plants and shipyards. Huge numbers of workers are seen in the yard of a U.S. defense plant. View inside a U.S. factory where numerous M3 Lee tanks are being manufactured on production lines during 1941-42. A welder at work. A woman using a saw and many other workers in a busy machine shop. B-17 bombers being built in a Boeing factory. Liberty ships under construction at a shipyard. A lookout watching the skies above a city, for enemy aircraft. A man and woman working together on a plumbing job. British women in Army uniforms working with typewriters. An American woman driving a forklift and loading a piece of ordnance on a railroad freight car. A rail yard filled with stream locomotives and freight trains. A line of trucks carrying war time cargoes. An army truck being loaded into the hold of a cargo ship. Ships underway in a harbor.
1st Marine Division in Korea during the Korean War. The flag of 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marines are decorated by a General at base camp. The General decorates a Marine, awarding him the Silver Star. General Oliver Smith presents an award to a Marine. Honor Guard marches in formal ceremony. Flashback to summer of 1950 with Marines marching with rifles, advancing north in Korea following landings at Inchon. M46 Patton tanks driven on a road. The tanks and the marines pass through a village. A train loaded with supplies for the front passes over a nearby railroad bridge. The Marines pull a 75mm tank gun. They carry a 30 caliber machine gun. Marine Commander of 1st Marine Provisional Brigade, Brigadier General Edward A. Craig talks to an officer while reviewing a map or chart.
A battalion of uniformed Yugoslav partisan soldiers marches across uneven ground during a training exercise. They reform into a large square formation and parade across a smoother field. A number of women are included in their ranks. Next, all are seen marching, with some carrying Zastava M84 Medium Machine Guns, slung over their shoulders. They halt and stand at attention, and then resume marching. They break into two formations and march as the camera focuses on the space between them. The two formations pass on either side of the camera.
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