German fighter planes attack enemy positions in European Theater during World War II. German ME-109 and FW-90 fighter planes in flight. Planes explode in mid air and burst into flames. Pilots of the aircraft drop with parachutes. German ME-109 and FW-90 planes strafe observation tower, vehicles on road, rail road trains, buildings. Explosions occur as a result of bombarding.
United States Veterans Administration's role for the war veterans of World War II. An enactment shows students in a classroom. War veterans return to educational institutes to complete their education as Veterans Administration supports them with subsistence allowance. Veterans in a lab getting technical training. A war veteran at his study table.
Activities of the United States Special Forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Sargent Arthur C. Juniewicz of U.S. Special Forces gives candies to Montagnards children in a South Vietnamese village. Women also get candies from the Sargent. Child tied to a mothers back receives candy. Families of Montagnards in training. Sargent throws candies at a distance. An old Vietnamese woman with a large hole in her ear lobe. Sargent Juniewicz drives away in a jeep.
Nuclear weapon safety strategies employed by the United States Air Force during the Cold War. Shows aircraft alert training drills related to launch of nuclear weapons. U.S. Air Force personnel work on the controls in a control room of an air base. Men answer phone calls. An alert order being received in a coded language. An alarm being sounded and airmen scramble and run from their rooms and billiards table to the aircraft at the base. Crew members enter waiting bomber aircraft and put on their flight gear and breathing apparatus. Controllers decode the message separately and then compare it. Aircraft commanders being instructed. A cocoa alert being sounded and aircraft taxi along a runway. Scene shifts to aerial view of a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber aircraft in flight, which narrator indicates is among aircraft that are airborne at all times and prepared to proceed to a target. View of pilot and copilot in the cockpit of the B-52 bomber aircraft. Aerial view of B-52 aircraft banking to right side. View of different crew members such as bombardier and navigator in B-52 aircraft as they separately confirm interpretation of an incoming message. View of Republic F-105 Thunderchief aircraft parked readying for takeoff on runway. Another fighter aircraft preparing for takeoff (F-11 ?). A surface missile being readied for launch. A missile being launched from an underground missile silo, taking off and emitting a fiery flare.
Invasion convoy headed toward the French coast for the invasion of Normandy France on D-Day in World War 2. Allied warships begin their bombardment. Many views of naval guns firing. Sailors signaling with blinker lights. Second wave of Allied infantry leaving transport ships, descending rope nets to board their landing craft. Troops loaded aboard LCI(L) 211. Allied fighter aircraft in flight. Gun camera views of Allied aircraft attacking German FLAK tower; a Heinkel HE-111 bomber; a steam locomotive pulling a train; and barge traffic on a canal.
A film about an amphibious training of United States troops at Camp Gordon Johnston in Florida. An explosion occurs during a practice invasion. The troops crawl through mud as live ammunition is fired during simulated combat conditions. Soldiers crawl across a field under heavy firing. The soldiers in landing crafts approach the Florida beach and unload from the craft. (World War II period).
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