The types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during WWII. An enactment shows units during an advance. Laying out a cloth in an arrow sign indicating the direction of an enemy fire and burning a smoke grenade near it. The smoke signal indicates the help required by the unit in knowing the direction of the enemy fire. A reconnaissance plane surveys the combat area and enemy installations. A pillbox being located and smoke grenades being burst. Soldiers fire 4.2 mortars at the pillbox and smoke rises. Smoke engulfs the pillbox. Ground units attack the area. A soldier sets off a colored smoke grenade to indicate cease fire. Soldiers advance and smoke from colored grenades rises.
A damaged United States Air Force OV-10 A aircraft and an A-1H aircraft at Nakhon Phnom Air Base in Thailand during rescue operations of the 4th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron. A United States OV-10A aircraft in flight. The aircraft lands at the Nakhon Phnom Air Base and taxis along as a man signals. A damaged engine of the aircraft. The pilot gets off from the cockpit of the aircraft. A United States A-1H aircraft with white phosphorus bomb, mini guns and SUU-14/A dispensers is parked and then taxis. The A-1 H aircraft taxis followed by an A-1E aircraft.
Sketch of 1909 aircraft that Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel. Progressive views of airplanes from earliest to formations of B-52 bombers in flight. Picture of Air Force Five Star General Henry (Hap) Arnold. Views of Wright Flyer being pulled into a field and readied and launched with Orville Wright at the controls. Two DeHavilland DH4 airplanes in formation as wing walker climbs from wing of one to wing of the other. (Wing walker wears emblem of black cat and number 13, on his shirt.) Drawing of Wright flyer airplane with various parts labeled by Lieutenant Arnold. Letter, dated 13, May, 1911, from 2nd Lieutenant Henry Arnold, of the 24th Infantry, to Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army, reporting on his progress at the Wright flying school in Dayton, Ohio. First pilot's badge (wings) earned by Lieutenant Arnold. President Wilson at inauguration of airmail service, from Washington, DC.
U.S. Army soldier reads newspaper while listening to radio. Soldiers doing their respective chores, listen to AFN (American Forces Network) Radio. General Marshall and General Eisenhower announce the creation of AFN, in 1942. July 4, 1943, the first broadcast of AFN. General Eisenhower mingling with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, on the eve of D-day. U.S. B-26 aircraft in flight. United States soldiers aboard landing craft and wading ashore at Normandy, France, on D-day, June 6, 1944. Soldiers tuning radios in the field. United States Sherman tanks and infantry move along country road in France. Audio includes portions from AFN broadcasts, including an announcer saying "You are listening to AFN Paris. This is the American Forces Network, on the road to Berlin." Road sign points to St. Lo. Group of U.S. soldiers gathered around a jeep with a radio, listening to AFN, in Germany. (World War II period).
View of the National Portrait Gallery (St. Martin's Pl, London WC2H 0HE, United Kingdom) and Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ, United Kingdom), near Trafalgar Square, London, England. Among pedestrians seen are two young hippie men with long hair and dressed in hippie fashion. The camera focuses on them and their attire.
Gigantic ship SS Normandie afloat nearing harbor in New York City. Largest craft at the time arrives in New York, crossing from France to New York in record time of 4 days, 3 hours, 14 minutes. Normandie with Statue of Liberty in foreground. Other ship and boats at harbor area. Tall buildings of the Manhattan skyline and skyscrapers in the foreground.
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