AN/MPQ-4 counter mortar radar screen rotates at a U.S. 1st Infantry Division's base camp in Dian, South Vietnam.
Aerial views of a forested area in Vietnam. U.S. F-4C aircraft drops General Purpose (GP) and Napalm bombs on smoke markers fired by an O-1E aircraft. Heavy smoke rises from the explosions.
Clip begins in Peenemunde Germany, during World War 2. You can see the huge assembly building at test stand 7. Doors of the assembly building slide to open. Mobile propulsion unit taken for tests of A-4 missile. Next shots are from Kummersdor. Fire comes out from rear part of an A-5 rocket during fire-test. Repeated scenes of test firing from various directions.
Aircraft carrier, USS Oriskany, conducting flight operations from Yankee Station, in South China Sea off Vietnam. Several A4-E aircraft return and land on the carrier deck, engaging the restraining cable, without incident. (A fire broke out on the ship from accidental igniting of flares, in a locker below the flight deck, on this day. It is not clear whether these aircraft landed before, during, or after that event.)
The American light cruiser, USS Savanah (CL-42) is seen streaming smoke as it cruises at high speed, after being hit by a German “Fritz X” radio-guided bomb during World War 2. Next Lieutenant General Mark Clark, Commanding General, Fifth Army, is seen descending a ladder from the USS Ancon (AGC-4), a headquarters and communications command ship, from which he had been observing the amphibious landings at Salerno, Italy. General Clark is helped aboard a waiting PT boat, where he joins several other officers on deck, with whom he converses.
View from the ground of a a Soviet Mi-6 helicopter taking off and flying away. A Soviet Mi-4 helicopter on the ground in a field and armed Soviet troops running through the field. A skyward view of Soviet transport aircraft dropping parachutes containing equipment. As one of the parachutes is about to land, a burst of flame is seen just above the payload, providing back thrust to soften the landing for the equipment.
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