The U.S. Commanding General presents medals to soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Major Charles P. Stone, Commanding General of the 4th Infantry Division present at the ceremony. He presents Bronze Star medals to soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry in the ceremony. General Stone talks to the soldiers.
A United States Roman Catholic chaplain holds field memorial services in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A chaplain celebrates Mass for United States soldiers. Men of 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division present at the memorial services. The Mass being conducted at 105 mm howitzer position.
The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Man stands at a podium, addresses the people present at the demonstration. Soldiers lift a map from the ground. Soldiers hold a map showing a drop zone for an airborne mission to Sicily. An African American soldier points to locations on the map with a stick. The soldiers lower down the map before leaving. Three Lockheed C-130 Hercules demonstrate the low level in trail portion of a normal approach pattern and climb to drop altitude. Conduct of joint operations and teamwork of army and air force personnel in front of the people. Demonstration by the strike forces. A North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco in flight marks targets for fighters. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter bombers demonstrate bombardment on the target area. Pillar of smoke rises from drop zone. Fighters pull above the C-130s for top cover for airborne assault. C-130 airdrop equipment. U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules in flight. Precision drops of heavy load from C-130 transport planes. Extraction parachutes are popped into the slipstream. Equipment crew paratroopers jump out of the airplane and descend towards the land with the help of a parachute. Several airplanes in flight. Interior of an airplane. Jumper troops (some of them are African American) seated aboard the airplane. Jumper troops hook up before jump. They jump out of the plane and descend towards the land. Tactical fighters fly over paratroopers.
The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. U.S. Air Force OV-10 Bronco aircraft in flight. They drop bombs over the target area. Smoke arises from explosion. USAF F-4 Phantom II aircraft in flight. Aerial view of the attack on ground target by the aircraft. U.S. Air Force A-7 Corsair aircraft attacks the ground target with 2.7 inch rockets, and then with high-drag Mark 82 Snake-eye bombs. The fins on the bombs slow their descent and permit a low-altitude bombing run with successful aircraft escape. Smoke from explosion on the ground. Ground support elements fire different artillery weapons including 105, 155, and 8 inch Howitzer.
Animated map shows the front line of battle, between Republican and Nationalist forces, running West of Madrid from West Park through University City, during the Spanish Civil War. Camera pans across landscape, from a high vantage point, and then focuses on buildings of University City, where Nationalist forces have taken up positions in a palace with two pointed towers, and near a ruined clinical hospital. Republican troops are seen entering through a gate at the hospital, where the bearded Brigade Commander Jesús Martínez de Aragón is seen consulting with his staff. (Narrator notes that he died in the attack on the Casa del Campo soon after this scene was filmed.) Views of sandbagged buildings inside the hospital compound. The Brigade Commander is seen with some of his soldiers, while rebels are trying to move further into the clinic compound. His soldiers take up defensive positions inside clinic buildings, carrying heavy arms up the stairs. Republican defenders firing machine guns from inside the building, and moving through rubble to other positions. Views inside the clinic and sound of glass breaking. Continuous sound of machine gun fire. Two soldiers fire through a small hole in a concrete wall. View, from Republican defensive position, of a battle-scarred multistory building across the way. One of the soldiers writing a letter home (dated May 4, 1937). Another soldier rolls a cigarette.
Fascist Rebel bombardment of Madrid, during Spanish Civil War, angers population and promotes recruitment into the Republican Army. A group of men march down a street with a small boy, who appears to be in boy scout uniform, in the front rank, carrying a flag. Recruits are seen being organized into marching groups. Sidewalk in front of a railroad station is filled with new recruits. They march under direction of Republican soldiers. Motorcade of automobiles carrying Manuel Azana Diaz, President of Spain, stops surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd, in Valencia. The President steps from his car, enters a building, and delivers a speech emphasizing the democratic election of the government and decrying the need to defend it and the soil of Spain from fascist rebels. Scene shifts to several men in rural area, discussing the need to complete new irrigation projects in time for new defense of Madrid. They already have their pump and must build the pump house. One man types on a typewriter while another sketches the plan to pump water from the Rio Tajo (Tagus River), to irrigate crops. View of horse-drawn wagon loaded with cement for construction. Two men discussion construction plans. Masons using rudimentary methods to erect a pump house. Later view of pump house as men work on the roof. Men digging irrigationl canal from the river and upward toward the agricultural fields. A soldier who hitched a ride on a truck, jumps off. View of a letter he wrote a few days ago, on May 4th. He arrives at his house and is greeted by his mother. Farmers trimming plants in field to be irrigated. A boy calls one of them, his father, to come home.
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