Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the 51st Brigade of the 25th Indian Division XV corps in forward area of Buthidaung in Burma. British Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia comes. He shakes hand with an officer. Mountbatten speaks with the enlisted men. Lieutenant General S A M Browning, Chief of General staff of South East Asia Command (SEAC) accompanies Mountbatten. (World War II period).
First United States Army (FUSA) soldiers carry wounded in Weywertz, Belgium. United States soldiers carry wounded on two horse drawn sledges, back to 3rd Battalion Command Post 16th regiment. Medics unload wounded. Wounded legs of a soldier. Litters on top of jeep as it ways through snow covered terrain. Wounded German prisoners on stretcher placed on snow covered ground. United States wounded are placed a top M-29 cargo carrier for transportation. (World War II period).
Herbert Hoover accompanied by Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger review elements of the 1st Cavalry Division from an M-08 armored car in Atsugi, Japan. Soldiers stand aligned and Hoover salutes from car. Hoover stands at reviewing stand. He stands under flags and review troops. Soldiers march with flag of United States.
199th Light Infantry BDE during search and destroy operation in Vietnam. The soldiers walk on road through a village. They walk past water. Aerial view of UH-1D helicopters from pilots cabin. Rice paddies flooded with water. Soldiers walk through rice paddies. Helicopter in low flight. Soldiers get off from hovering UH-1D helicopter into flooded water of rice paddies. Silhouettes of soldiers walk in flooded paddies. Soldiers swim and bathe in channel and cross it. Some soldiers put baggage on rubber air mattresses and swim with it tied to a rope. Soldiers wear cloth, rest and dry out. Soldier checks and cleans his M-16rifle. Soldiers use rope to guide themselves across the deep water on their air mattresses. (Vietnam War period).
Panning View from a nearby hill, overlooking an American World War I cemetery, somewhere in France, as seen in 1919. It is layed out in the form of a long rectangle, with white roads and paths enclosing and crisscrossing the entire area, so that each individual row of graves is bounded by a white path. Its major roads intersect at a circle with flagpole at the center. The cemetery is in a level field surrounded by pastureland, except for the overlooking hill from which it is photographed. Scene shifts to Argonne American cemetery in France. Aerial views of graves. Foliage at the hill side. Plantings form letters of cemetery name i.e."Argonne Cemetery," at the edge of the field of crosses. The American flag flies at the cemetery. Individual Graves are seen marked with numbered white crosses bearing names of fallen American soldiers of World War 1. Several markers bear the cross of David, at graves of Jewish American soldiers. Closeups of some crosses near end of sequence. One is numbered 201, and reads: "George C. Long, Pvt. CO M. 327 Inf.
Security Forces from 90th Security Police Squadron on duty with Minuteman missile system at Francis E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne Wy. Board reads 9Oth SPS Armory. Two-man Security team checkout M-16 rifle and sidearm weapons from issuing window, and head out on their assigned patrol. Other Security police muster for inspection and instructions at the start of their duty period. Insignia of SAC on wall in room. African American officer conducts briefing with team members. Teams are dispatched to inspect security at Minuteman launch facility including some outer zone radars. Guards on standby can watch television, read books and study. View of Security team sleeping quarters in launch facility. A cook preparing a meal. A team responds in a truck, to a possible intrusion. Snow on the ground. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
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