John Charles Daly stands in the Hall of Heroes, at the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A. Behind him is a display containing names of the American military recipients of the Medal of Honor. He points to a section of a display listing 131 names added during the Korean War. He then moves to the latest section of the display, covering the period 1964 and subsequent, in the Vietnam War. At this point, the film begins to depict scenes from the Vietnam conflict. An American soldier holding a rifle is silhouetted against a light sky background. U.S. soldiers firing M-16 rifles. shadow cast by a Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopter flying overhead. Soldier firing machine gun from M113 armored personnel carrier (APC). U.S. gun crews firing 105mm howitzer; 175mm self-propelled gun; M107 Howitzer; and battery of howitzers in the field. Army troops inside a helicopter. View from below of CH-47 helicopter (Jolly Green Giant) landing and troops leaving its rear door. A patrol of American soldiers firing their weapons as they move forward. Soldiers dealing with difficult terrain. One stepping through deep mud. Infantry patrol moving and taking cover. A soldier using field radio. A UH-1 flying over palm trees. Infantry moving through jungle accompanied by M113 APC. Explosions and fire. Soldiers boarding a Huey helicopter, as the ship's gunner delivers covering fire by machine gun. Soldiers having a smoke while airborne in the helicopter.
A motorcade arrives and dignitaries get off. German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring greets French Marshal Philippe Petain and Admiral Francois Darlan in St. Florentin, France. Officers salute the two Frenchmen. Goring talks to Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan. They board a train. The three leaders stand outside the train. A French flag on the car.
A modern field hospital to receive wounded and ill prisoners from Red captivity, raised at Panmunjom in Korea. Military tents, pre-fabricated buildings, trucks and jeeps at the camp. Soldiers construct roads with heavy equipment and machinery. Barb wires put up for boundaries. Military ambulances parked in the camp area. Supplies stacked in boxes. Nursing and medical personnel at the camp. A United States Medical Department ambulance train. GIs make the beds inside the train.
Film opens showing a commercial DC-9 in flight, overhead, approaching for landing at LaGuardia Airport, with landing gear and flaps extended. Scene shifts to hazy view of buildings silhouetted against lighter sky. View of rooftops with a boy walking across one. Buildings with pigeons on the roof. A woman dries clothes on a roof. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Cars parked on the street below. Pigeons flying. Youths playing basketball. 1:08 to end footage taken from atop 700 East 156th Street. 1:08 follows a train northwest along the Westchester Avenue line. 1:18, a view East of the newly elevated Bruckner Expwy and Whitestone and Throggs Neck bridges in distance. 1:21,a view to the Northwest, 3203-3211 Park Avenue is the curved building in the foreground, George Washington Bridge seen in the distance. 1:25, view west down 156th Street. 1:29 Train runs along Westchester Avenue to 156 and Tinton. 1:34 panning from south to west, Consolidated Edixon plant in Port Morris can be seen in distance. Rikers Island can also be seen in the East River. ( Note: A very large number of the buildings shown burned down in the next 10-20 years.)
German troops attack Russia during World War II. German troops load trucks with bombs. Trucks carrying bombs leave for destination. A soldier refills a tank. Soldiers load bombs in an aircraft. Dive bombers in flight. General Theodor Eicke plans a campaign with other officers. German troops in train. Smoke from the engine. They get off the train. Soldiers with horses. A horse gets stuck in mud. German troops move up for attack. Soldiers fire artillery. Smoke due to explosion. Soldiers on a tank. Dive bombers in flight. A soldier speaks on a radio. Soldiers look at the bomber through a telescope. German soldiers make prisoners of war march. Wrecked Russian tanks.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) military training centers and schools in Vietnam. South Vietnamese cadets train at a simulated Vietcong village. ARVN cadets sneak up into a hootch. They attack and capture a man posing as a Vietcong. The captured Vietcong being lead away from the hootch. He attempts to escape and is fired on. The simulated dead Vietcong sprawled on the ground. (Vietnam War period).
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