During Tet Offensive in Hue, Vietnam: U.S. Marines of 'L' Company holding M-79 grenade launcher stands behind tree looking toward smoke rising in the background. Portion of building explodes during battle. 50cal machine gun fired from M-48 tank parked near portion of stone wall. Marines carry and drag wounded marine while they are under fire. Marines around mechanical mule. Wounded marine loaded onto mechanical mule. Mechanical mule is driven off. Other marines crawl on ground under fire. Some of the Marines move quickly toward M-48 tank and disappear behind stone wall. Marines move past a wrecked jeep. Marines stand and sit near heavily damaged buildings. Marines move ahead near a large building. Marines move past pedicab and buildings. Marines with M-16 rifles move past large building, portion of which reads 'Dau Dong'. Marines run. (Vietnam War period).
United States Marines of 1/1 (1st Battalion 1st Marines) look toward parked M-48 tank on road (river barrier). Tank parked on road with 90mm gun aimed out. Turret swings toward buildings in bushy area. Tank fires. Smoke rises from the background. Turret turns slowly as several 90mm shell casings are thrown out onto ground. Marines stand behind top turret of parked M-48 tank. Marine kneels along road with 3.5 rocket launcher on his shoulder. Second marine loads rocket into launcher as third marine speaks and points out position of attack. ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) rangers armed with M-16 rifles move quickly followed by marines. AVRN rangers and marines cross Perfume River Bridge and move toward a building in the background. AVRN rangers talk into radio atop parked M-48 tank. (Vietnam War, Tet Offensive period).
A film about use and importance of M20 rocket launchers. U.S. soldiers fire rifles on a battlefield. The soldier march. An aircraft in flight as paratroopers drop. Crew members set up an M20 rocket launcher. A gunner puts on a protective mask. Shells being loaded into the rocket launcher. The gunner fires the rocket launcher at a tank and smoke rises. The gunner seated in a kneel down position as a man loads the rocket launcher. The M20 rocket launcher being fired. The gunner in a prone position as he prepares to fire the M20rocket launcher. The launcher placed on an elevating screw. The crew fires the rocket.
The Peleliu operation in Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. An M114 155 mm howitzer set up in a jungle. United States 7th Marines clean the gun barrel of the howitzer. The marines prepare to fire from the howitzer. A line of howitzers on a field. Firing from M114 155 mm howitzers. A marine opens a breech of a gun and ejects an empty shell. The marine runs with another shell and inserts it into the breech. The breech is closed. The M114 155 mm howitzers fire. The barrel of an M114 155 mm howitzer as it fires. Gun crewmen stand near the howitzer. The marines pull an ammunition cart. They carry 155mm shells on the shoulders and walk towards the the 155mm howitzer.
HMS M1 submarine of Britain performs maneuvers before docking for repairs in Chatham, England. The British Royal Navy M-class submarine sailing. Crewmen standing near gun turret. 13-inch gun turret moving. The M1 submarine submerges. The 13-inch gun of the M1 submarine firing before submerging into the waters. British Navy crew on deck.
A commuter train gets derailed on a New York Central elevated train track. Views of the derailed train and wrecked railroads. Vehicles and people near a bridge for the central tracks. Passengers of the derailed train await help. Engineers talk standing next to the derailed train. The passengers are transferred to another train. The train starts and moves.
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