American aviator Captain Frank M. Hawks lands in Long Island after a record flight in the United States. A Travel Air Mystery S aircraft comes in for landing at Curtis Field in Long Island on August 13, 1930. Aircraft lands and taxis. People gathered around the aircraft. Newsmen interview the pilot Captain Frank M. Hawks. Captain Hawks talks about the speed record set by him during his flight from Los Angeles to Long Island.
U.S. Navy 7th fleet operations in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. U.S. Navy E-1B aircraft lands aboard USS Midway underway in the South China sea. E-1H aircraft carrying bombs taxis off with its wings folded. Lieutenant W.B. Wilson, VFP-63 (Light Reconnaissance Photographic Squadron)on board a U.S. Navy E-1B aircraft. Lieutenant Wilson in flight suit walks away from the side of the aircraft. Commander Carrier Division Rear Admiral William Bringle greets Lieutenant Wilson and they talk. Lieutenant Wilson being greeted by Captain J.M. O'Brien, Commander of USS Midway and Lieutenant Commander Duncan of VFP-63 (Light Reconnaissance Photographic Squadron). Lieutenant Wilson explains a matter to the officers during a briefing in a wardroom. Rear Admiral William Bringle, Captain J.M. O'Brien, Lieutenant Commander Duncan seated on divan as they listen.
German panzers and infantry preparing to defend against advancing American forces by cutting their supply routes from the coast of France,following the invasion of Normandy. Animated map shows Allied and German opposing objectives converging at mortain, France. American armor bogged down near Mortain. An American crew abandoning a Sherman tank that has been hit and is burning. American infantry taking cover at side of a road. A U.S. Army Captain leading soldiers forward. German artillery fire striking center of a road. An American armored vehicle burning in a field. U.S. infantrymen moving cautiously through fields. Wounded American soldiers being carried off the battlefield on stretchers. British Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter bombers attacking German positions with rockets from above. RAF Typhoon aircraft being rearmed and continuing to attack large concentrations of German armored units North of Mortain. American infantrymen firing numerous mortars from a field.American soldiers firing rifles, bazookas, and machine guns.US M7 Priest self-propelled gun firing. U.S. M-16 anti-aircraft halftrack firing quad .50 caliber machine guns. U.S. infantry entering war torn town of Mortain.
Loading of a U.S. LST (Landing Ship, Tank) at Falmouth, England during World War II. An M3 half track pulls a trailer aboard the LST at the dock. An M-8 Light Armored Car moves up the ramp of the LST. U.S. jeeps move along a road.
After credits, opening slate refers to the battle front of the future, battles of the Motherland. Opening action shows a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Momentary glimpse of the nose of a Mig-1 with engine running. Then a stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft takes off. Two of them are seen in flight overhead, and then several more. Scene shifts to some captured German prisoners of war being escorted by Soviet armed guards. Troops and more prisoners walk down gang planks from a large flat river barge. A T-26 tank sits overlooking the barge as its occupants depart under guard. Scene shifts to an advanced model T-26 Soviet tank moving across a field. Another is also moving in the background. Other tanks move past the camera, through sand, and past trees. A Soviet BT-5 tank speeds past the camera. Soviet troops firing Quad-mounted PM M1910 Maxim machine guns as antiaircraft weapon. Other antiaircraft weapons firing at a German Bf 109 aircraft in flight overhead. Aerial view of a German Stuka Dive Bomber (Ju-87). Soviet gunners firing a camouflaged 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft gun. A German Bf 109 fighter aircraft turns and makes a gentle dive . Next, a burning aircraft is seen plummeting to earth. A large explosion. Two 85mm antiaircraft gins firing. More German aircraft are seen and another one is shot down. Several early ,model Soviet T-26 light infantry tanks run in formation over sharply rolling hills in what appears to be a testing or demonstration ground. several explosions occur near them as they move. Field artillery firing from concealed positions in woods. A tree is felled by shelling and an explosion nearby raises huge clods of earth. Soviet infantry charge through barbed wire. One soldier carries a mine detector. Soviet troops charge through woods. Several German prisoners of war are taken. Numerous German prisoners seated on the ground in an open field.
Soviet Army armor and weapons during maneuvers. An M-50 (57 mm) anti-aircraft gun tracks an aerial target. M-38 (122 mm) howitzers fire. Soviet Army gun crews and fire controllers in action. Mobile BM-21 rocket launchers fire rockets. BMP-1S (Armored Personnel Carriers) and T-55 tanks move along a field. ZSU-23s (23 mm self propelled anti-aircraft machine gun) move along the field. Helicopters in flight. T-62 and T-55 tanks parked. Crews leave the tanks and prepare vehicles for CBW (Chemical and Biological Weapons) attack. A T-55 tank moves on a dirt road and passes through CBW agents.
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