U.S. Army testing of weapons during World War 1. An American soldier fires a Browning M1917A1 .30-caliber Water-Cooled Machine Gun while sitting in a hard wooden chair on a porch. Two soldiers test firing a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. Another soldier test fires a Vickers Mark I water-cooled machine gun.
REFORGER 77 (Return of Forces to Germany). Troops of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in Germany. M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier refueled with other carriers around it. A soldier writes on a paper, soldiers refuel a carrier. Officers study a map on the hood of a jeep. Soldier on M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier with a machine gun mounted on it.
U.S. soldiers stand and pose alongside two women at Camp Meade in Maryland. M1917 Six Ton tanks in the background with soldiers standing near them. A photographer climbs on one of the tanks holding his camera. Several men and boys stand behind a fence and watch as two U.S. Mark VIII 'Liberty' heavy tanks descend down a steep embankment, followed by a U.S. M1917.
A film titled 'Tanks' on the manufacture and uses of M-3 medium tanks in the United States. Exterior of a tank arsenal. An M-3 medium fighting tank moves along a street. Men work in a factory. They work on the production of tanks. Tanks are assembled. Mass production of tools and equipment in the factory. Men at work on different parts of tanks. A semi finished tank body being hoisted. The armor turret of the tank. The parts of the tanks are assembled. The tanks move along a track. Fire power being installed. Motors and guns being placed in the tanks. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows Lend Lease military equipment covered with canvas, at a port in the United States, during World War 2. A B-26 bomber with wings removed outboard of its engines, is being maneuvered for shipment at a port in the United States. A Lockheed P-38 airplane is moved on a crane and then rolled along a pier toward the stern of the U.S. Light Cruiser, USS Phoenix (CL-46) which is docked there. Wings of a Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull scout plane can be seen on the Phoenix. Two more P-38 aircraft are rolled along the pier, past another Brooklyn class Light Cruiser at the end of the pier. (Her triple 6-inch gun turrets are noticeable.) Crated supplies are seen being lowered into ship cargo holds. An American M2 light tank being lowered from a crane. An American M3 Lee tank being secured in a ship. Numerous tanks in a ship’s cargo hold. Next, a convoy of ships carrying war materiel overseas is seen at sea. A U.S. Cruiser plunging through heavy seas. View from her bridge overlooking her triple gun turrets, as her bow is awash in waves. A formation of U.S. battleships, led by a Nevada class Battle Ship armed with twin over triple forward gun turrets. She is followed by what appears to be a modernized Pennsylvania class Battleship and other battleships. A British Battle Cruiser followed by another British warship. Various Allied battleships firing their heavy guns. Animated map tracing the “Lend-Lease” routes across the North Atlantic to Iceland, the British Isles, and Murmansk. Map also shows routes by sea and air to the West Indies, Brazil, and South Africa and West Africa, and then by air across Africa, to egypt and the Middle East. Other routes are shown to Suez, Iran, India, and China, as well as trans-Pacific routes to various places. American soldiers crowd the upper deck of a troop transport ship. A military chaplain conducts religious services aboard ship at sea. More views of ships in convoys. A U.S. Navy Kingfisher float plane in flight over the water. A barrage balloon aloft. A U.S. Navy Catalina PBY flying boat in the air above a fleet of supply ships in a vast convoy.
U.S. troops lay prone on ground next to runway with M-16 rifles during attack of Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. One soldier crouches behind soldiers lying on ground. Troops wait for an attack. Soldier takes aim. Tank moves fast at Tan Son Nhut, kicking up dust. Open field, smoke rises from the distant background. C-123 aircraft in flight overhead. Air Force personnel with M-16 rifles pass on runway. Bodies of dead Vietcong along the edge of runway. B-40 rocket on ground. Troops around trucks and trailers. A1-H aircraft bombing enemy. Clouds of smoke rise in the far background from bomb hit. Smoke rises from building in the background. UH-46D helicopter flies by in the background with supplies hanging from sling. Fireball rises up from explosions. (Vietnam War period).
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