Invasion of Okinawa. View across rice fields. Marines advance through rice fields. Two Marines rest. One with M1 rifle, another with Browning Automatic Rifle. A burning building. Marine makes his way around burning building, looks for snipers. He looks into stall where horse is. Entrance to the house, Marine looks into gate. Marines make their way through rice field looking for snipers.
U.S. 1st Battalion 1st Marines fight the enemy in Okinawa. Marines on Shark Tooth Ridge fire Thompson sub machine gun and M-1 from prone position down hill towards cave. Marines fire bazooka rocket launcher over crest of hill. Marines fire bazooka over edge. They reload bazooka and another round is fired. (World War II period).
New York Daily News headline reads 'Japan at war with U.S.' Journal American newspaper headline reads:'US votes war'. Boxes of M-1 ammunition being off-loaded from a ship by African American soldiers, and placed on a roller conveyer. U.S. Army tank, trucks, and aircraft ready for shipment overseas.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) REFORGER II (Return of Forces to Germany) Exercise. A tank and then Armored Personnel Carriers (APC) cross mobile assault bridge over Main River in Germany. Wooded area in the background. APC move towards "enemy held" hill. Men stand in the foreground. M-88 Tank retriever tows an Armored Personnel Carrier. A self-propelled howitzer rolls by in the foreground.
Two U.S. Army officers are seen wearing white-banded caps, identifying them as "umpires" during NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo." war games. They refer to a large map. One, a field grade officer, points in a direction. Scene shifts to U.S. Patton tanks parked in a field. Closeup of gunner atop a tank. Infantry riflemen lie prone at edge of a field. One fires his rifle. Scene changes to a soldier firing a Browning M1917 heavy belt-fed water-cooled machine gun. Infantrymen proceed along a tree-lined road. Others dig in to make defensive positions. Two soldiers dismantle a Stokes mortar to move it. Soldiers camouflage positions with netting and use pickaxes and other tools to "dig in."
Operation Jackstay in Vietnam. Several Landing Crafts (LCMs) heading back down a river in the Long Thanh peninsula area. A shoreline in the background. A United States flag raised aboard a craft. A Landing Craft in view. Coxswain in the background. James Franklin from Naval Operations Support Group aboard the craft. He stands with an M-14 rifle and looks towards the shoreline. He keeps a vigil for snipers. Two marines look for snipers. A jungle along the shoreline in the background. Marines come out of the jungle towards the LCM after patrol of the shore for Viet Cong. Heavy brush in the background. The marines return aboard the LCM. (Vietnam War period).
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