Animated map shows American and Chinese forces advancing from Myitkyina to Bhamo, while British forces move to Mogamng to Katha, in Burma during the India-China-Burma campaign of World War 2. Mandalay, Lashio, the Burma Road, and Salween River are also shown on the map. Chinese troops are seen with pack animals moving along road marked by sign reading: "Bhamo Road." Chinese and American troops cross the Irrawaddy River by Pontoon bridge. A heavier item (M3 Lee medium tank) moves via a raft. M3 tanks also cross at affordable locations. Advancing troops move to extreme sides of road for security. Aerial view of Bhamo, on river's edge. Allies employ artillery and U.S. Army Air Forces P-39 Bell Air Cobra planes drop bombs. A Republic P-47 airplane is also seen dropping bombs. Chinese troops fire Browning M1917 machine guns and automatic rifles, as they advance upon the town. Another aerial view of smoke rising at various places in Bhamo. Lieutenant General Daniel Isom Sultan, Commander India-Burma theater, speaks about subsequent advance to the Ledo Road.
Footage of NASA Gemini Astronauts conducting a docking operation in space. Narrator begins to name Gemini astronauts and note their achievements. Still images are shown as their names are read, including Lieutenant Colonel USAF Virgil I Grissom, USN Commander John M Young, Lieutenant Colonel USAFJames A McDivitt, Lieutenant Colonel USAF Edward H White, Colonel USAF L Gordon Cooper, Commander USN Charles Conrad, Colonel USAF Frank Borman, Captain USN James A Lovell, Captain USAF Walter M Schirra, Lieutenant Colonel USAF Thomas P Stafford, Neil Armstrong and Major USAF David Scott of Gemini 8, Lieutenant Colonel USAF Thomas P Stafford, Lieutenant Commander Eugene A Cerman, Commander USN John M Young, Lieutenant Colonel USAF MIcheal Collins, Commander USN Charles Gordon, Commander USN Richard Gordon Jr,Captain USN James L Lovell, Colonel USAF Edwin E Aldrin. View of a ceremony in a NASA hangar, with a Gemini capsule in the background. Gemini Astronauts shake hands and greet members of the broader Gemini team on the ground, including various engineers and officials. Two Gemini astronauts at a podium addressing a gathered crowd after a mission. Artist's view of future mission control operations, with advanced looking data terminals and a futuristic space station.
Tactical Communications, Operation Junction City at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action. Wounded soldiers wait for medical helicopter to be evacuated. Soldiers sit in foxhole. Other soldiers crawl as they come under enemy fire. Officer speaks over PRC-25 radio. Soldiers set up a screen of fire with M-16 rifles into jungle. Soldier with jammed M-16 rifle. Another soldier comes to help him. Soldiers fire 81mm mortar. Soldiers with M-16 rifle ready to fire in bush. (Vietnam War period).
Security system and procedures for access to unmanned Minuteman Missile sites of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). Shown are procedures used by Security escort accompanying a maintenance team to a site. View of soldier typing on a typewriter and answering phone at the security dispatch office. The security form, called the 'pre-dispatch security notification' is shown. Military escort receiving codes on a card given to him at the dispatch window is also issued and M-16 rifle with 54 rounds. The military escort, dressed in a winter parka, shows that he knows the lock combination using a simulated lock at the dispatch desk. A separate detail goes through similar measures at a separate dispatch desk. Map shows radio check points that will be used by the escort during the missile maintenance activity. Green M1 Dodge truck driving in the desert to missile silo site. Military escort and maintenance crew dressed in winter coats arrive at chain link fence surrounding missile silo in the desert. They unlock the chain link fence gate. They open ground level security hatch. Soldier at missile command answers phone call from them and authorizes. Close up of combination lock set into the ground of the missile silo. Guard unlocks the combination lock and lifts the tube door cover out of the ground. Soldier wearing winter parka with M16 rifle watches as men open hatches to missile silo and descend into silo to perform maintenance. After procedure, men get into the back of the military truck and leave the missile area. Aerial view of minuteman missile site. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
Opening slate at start of film reads: "1942--1943 The Turn of the Tide." A column of British armor enters Bengazi, Libya, led by several troops in tankettes. Next seen are a Lee Medium Tank, M3 followed by an infantry tank, a jeep, another infantry tank and another Lee M3 Medium tank. Closeup of local people greeting the troops with upraised hands giving the "V" for victory sign. Another Lee M3 tank passes close by the camera. Black smoke is rising in the background. Scene changes to a half sunken ship near another burning in the harbor. Another view of this from further away above port buildings. Closeup of three smiling British soldiers leaning over a cartoon on a tank, of Winston Churchill (As a bulldog smoking a cigar and wearing a cap with the word "Victory" written on it). A crumpled captured flag with swastika on it. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery stands atop a vehicle (unseen) and looks through binoculars. Below, a column of British supply vehicles is making its way along a path in the desert. Two tanks coming toward the camera through sand. Animated map shows Nazi territory being threatened by the Allies from the Mediterranean, the USSR, and the English Channel. Views of Soviet infantry advancing against German forces in the snow of winter on the eastern front. Soviet troops firing updated 76-mm divisional gun model 1902 hidden in woods. Shells exploding in snow-covered field as Soviet BT series tanks advance. Various Soviet artillery firing from fixed gun batteries and from woods. A shell striking in distance. Fallen German soldiers lying on snowy field. Makeshift battlefield crosses marking graves of fallen German soldiers. German steel helmets lined up in the snow. A sign, posted on a birch tree, lists the names and birth dates of 16 German soldiers from the 3rd Panzer Division (3Pz-Pi-BH.39) buried at this site on November 28, 1941. Scene shifts to Joseph Stalin addressing Soviet troops in Red Square, Moscow, Russia. All the soldiers in formation seem to be singing (unheard). Film switches to animated map again. This time delineating the Eastern front being pressed by the USSR, and showing area of the 2nd Soviet winter offensive in 1943. Change of scene from Europe to the War in Asia, against Japan, shows General Douglas MacArthur after arriving by a B-17 bomber at a Pacific island American base. He ascends a steep hill in a jungle area, accompanied by other officers. Closeup of MacArthur. American infantry moving in single file in New Guinea, as a field piece fires a round in the direction they are headed. U.S. artillerymen load shells into a 105mm howitzer gun. A fire burns as mop-up operations begin on New Guinea. An Australian soldier is seen firing a Bren gun in jungles. Other Australian soldiers fire a mortar that explodes, raising earth and dust. More views of shells exploding near Allied soldier advancing. A soldier with fixed bayonet makes a fake charge toward the camera. Views of Japanese prisoners of war guarded in an outdoor compound. Japanese dead soldiers on Guadalcanal. An animated map shows new battle lines in the Pacific, closing in on Japan, with pressure from China, the USSR, and the Pacific islands being captured by the U.S. Arrows are added showing new pressure from American naval fleets and from British and American bombers out of Australia and captured islands.
United States Marines during the 'Operation Buffalo' in Con Thien, Vietnam. M48A1 tank of 'A' company parked on the grass field. Tank moves on the field. The marines follow the tank. They fire their weapons towards the bushes. Trees in the foreground. Marines fire their M-16 rifles. They walk forward. Tank also moves forward. Marines kneel on ground near the tank. Marine holding M-16 rifle stands near a small tree. (Vietnam War period).
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