2nd French Armored Division Spahis guard at Dalton-Holme, residence of General Jacques Philippe Leclerc during World War 2. General Leclerc walking on the grounds accompanied by an aide. General Leclerc salutes to soldiers during his inspection. General Leclerc and aide board a car. A half-track moving into a forest during a field exercise. M3 half-tracks driving near Sledmere, Yorkshire. An M3 half-track of the 1st Battalion of the Regiment de Marche du Tchad. M3 half-track front-end is written with “TCHAD” (Present-day Republic of Chad). A soldier uses binoculars. An M3 half-tack front-end written “LORRAINE”. 2nd French Armored Division 75 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 moves on the road near Sledmere, Yorkshire.
Allied troops move against German counterattacks in Belgium and Western Germany during World War II. United States troops move along a muddy road in Belgium. Incendiary explosion. Tire on fire from incendiary. A soldier looks at wrecked American military jeeps and ruined buildings. Heavy smoke rises from a pile of wreckage. Fleeing civilians and refugees walk on the road on foot. Some of the civilians bring bicycles. Belgian Roman Catholic priests wearing Cappello romano hats are seen moving with the group. African American motorized infantry moving into Belgium. An African American soldier smoking cigarette on passing truck. Soldiers in the Ardennes Forest. A soldier plants M1 anti-tank mines in the Ardennes. He places a mine in a hole in the ground. The soldier covers the mine with a pile of dried leaves. Soldiers setting up roadblocks and covering tanks with foliage for camouflage. An M3 Stuart light tank is covered with hay to disguise as a haystack. United States soldiers carefully search the field for Nazi paratroopers. A soldier finds abandoned parachute equipment and white snow cape. Soldiers inspect passing trucks at an intersection between Bastogne and Martelange in Wallonia, Belgium. Belgian civilians fleeing a German advance on Highway 15. American Military Police personnel diligently searching for disguised German soldiers to prevent infiltration. A Military Police officer inspects a Belgian man’s identification paper. Military Police personnel questions a driver of a Jeep. Soldiers digging a dugout. Soldier with an M1917 Browning Machine gun. Artillery crew firing a M101 105 mm Howitzer. A pile of shells stands beside the Howitzer. An officer gives out orders to fire over telephone. Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 tanks firing in the Ardennes. A soldier inspects with binoculars. Infantry troops moving across a field and village. Soldiers firing rifles from behind a stone fence. A soldier deposits a charge into a basement window, followed by explosion. Soldier fires bazooka in haze. Soldiers looking up to the sky searching for air support. Allied bombers flying over Belgium. British Royal Air Force bombers dropping bombs over a road junction as seen from bomb bay view.
Soldiers of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army pass through a jungle in Cambodia on M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers and M-551 Sheridan assault vehicles. Some soldiers on foot. The vehicles move through the jungle on an unpaved path. Trees on both the sides of the path. Soldiers on M-113 APCs and M-551 Sheridan tanks as they move on a road through the jungle. Many tanks parked. A soldier sits in front of the tanks.
A civilian narrator is speaking from the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Post, at Scott Air Force Base,Illinois. He mentions MAC missions supplying war materiel to Israel, in 1973, and the famous Berlin Airlift of 1948. Scene shifts to troops in military exercises, riding across fields in U.S. M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) and walking with their weapons and gear. An M60 Patton tank moves along a muddy road, past the camera. Troops of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne division stand in formation on a ramp next to a MAC C-141 transport aircraft. They are about to be airlifted to Europe, to participate in War games, in Germany. Some of their armor and trucks seen offloading at a destination airfield. Major John Gray, Jr. of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division is interviewed, standing in front of a C-141 aircraft from the MAC 62d Airlift Wing, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. UH-1 (Huey) helicopters deploying infantry in a field and moving away as the troops advance during an exercise. M113 APCs moving past the camera. MAC C-141s landing in Germany as they airlift the U.S. troops who participate in these exercises.Several C-141s taxiing on the airfield. A MAC C-5 Galaxy aircraft with its nose hatch open and armored vehicles that it carried, parked in front of it. Closeup of turret on an M60 medium main battle tank. View of the tank being loaded into a C-5 and view inside the aircraft as the tank is maneuvered in its cargo hold.
U.S. Army 155mm artillery guns hidden in bushes and firing in Italy. Camouflaged muzzle of guns seen firing. Smoke rises from the top of the hills and other targets. Seen are both M1917/M1918 155-mm Howitzer (Schneider) and M1/M2 Gun (Long Tom). (World War II period).
U.S. Marines during Operation Prairie in Vietnam. Marines with utilities and camouflage helmet seated on the ground. He removes M-26-A2 fragmentation grenades from cardboard cannisters. Poncho and ammunition crates lying on ground in clearing near heavy undergrowth. Marines seated at base of tree preparing to eat C-rations. Several Marines standing near open boxes of C-rations. Rations being distributed. Marines, some with packs on pack board kneeling and seated on ground while some smoke cigarettes in clearing. A Marine with jungle type hat, towel around neck, holding a map speaks over head set of PRC-25 radio. Some Marines with cartridge belts, canteens, packs, camouflage helmets and carrying weapons move over dirt trail in jungle area. Marine carrying bipod of 60mm mortar on shoulder. Muddy boots of soldier moving through shallow stream. Marines carrying M3A1 .45 caliber sub machine gun and M-14 rifles move through jungle area. A Marine with PRC-25 on his back. Tall thick bushes and wooded hills far below. Marine carrying M 14 rifle and ammunition cannister on pack board. Other Marines with packs and camera tilts. Marines moving through grassy area. (Vietnam War period).
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