A petty officer leads a newly hired female system maintenance officer to a corridor. The petty officer asks the woman officer some questions. “Secretarial? You gonna work on the skipper’s office?” he asks the woman. “No, I am not even in administration” the woman answes the petty officer, as a blond mechanic passes by. They leave the corridor. A man posts a VF-124 Flight Schedule. The man explains how pilots are now training as part of the transition to Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters, and so most maintenance will become turnaround inspectors. United States Navy sailors perform a FOD (Foreign Object Debris) walkdown at NAS Miramar California (Miramar Way, San Diego, CA 92145, United States). The petty officer shows tiny bits of metals and objects sailors picked from FOD walkdowns. The woman Ensign holds a small piece of metal.
Crowds gathered in front of the United States Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000) after the arrival of United States President John F. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Honor guard holding the flag of the United States. President Kennedy sits in a car with Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), James E. Webb, and Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC) Commander Major General Leighton I. Davis. Later astronauts Major Gordon Cooper and Major Gus (Virgil) Grissom in a quick shot brief the President about the Gemini capsule. The car with the president drives away. President Kennedy, wearing sunglasses, stands at the base and looks upward to see the Saturn Rocket. President Kennedy is accompanied by Florida Senator George A. Smathers and aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun. President Kennedy flies by USMC UH-3A helicopter to the U.S. Navy ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154).
United States Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant Robert Emmett O'Malley receiving the Medal of Honor from President Lyndon Baines Johnson. An orchestra plays at the Federal Office Building Plaza (J.J. Pickle Federal Building, 300 E 8th St, Austin, TX 78701) in Austin, Texas. The seal of the United States President on display. President Johnson gives his remarks before the awarding ceremony. “I can think of only one gift sufficient to honor men like this: We can assure this man and we can assure every man who wears our uniform that their cause is a good cause, that the principles they stand for are sound principles, that the battle they are fighting deserves their bravery. To back a commitment honorably given: that is a good cause. To shield a young nation from aggression: that is a good cause.” United States Marines in full blue dress uniform stand at attention. Marine corp band members in red uniform are also at attention. The audience clapping during President Johnson’s speech. President Johnson puts the Medal of Honor on Sergeant Robert Emmett O’Malley. The president also presents a framed certificate to O’Malley. Sergeant O’Malley smiles as he wears the Medal of Honor. President Johnson and Sergeant O’Malley shake hands with USMC officials.
Rear view of United States Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopters during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army helicopter pilot and soldier crew member in cockpit. South Vietnamese soldiers using a field phone. Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers in flight. Aerial bombing of Vietcong positions. An officer points to a map. Hand traces marked positions on the map. Vietnamese civilians evacuate from their homes. An injured civilian is taken on a helicopter. A Vietnamese child cries. Vietnamese children wash their hands and dries them with washcloths. A girl combs her hair. A boy lays a tablecloth and glass on the table. A girl holding a bowl of biscuits. A boy is given a biscuit and eats it. “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle,” says United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during a news conference at the White House on July 28, 1965. Photographs of various young American men of different backgrounds, some with their girlfriends or working. A photograph of American teenagers or young adults. Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong smiling. A portrait of North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh over a flag of North Vietnam. View of a ship’s bow. The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) or USS Lexington (CV-16). A Douglas A-4 Skyhawk fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier. A pair of bombers dropping bombs over Vietnam. Bombs falling from bomber. Aerial view of bombs exploding in North Vietnam. A USMC LVTP-5 amphibious armored personnel carrier. United States Marines land on beach head and moving in jungle. “This, then, my fellow Americans, is why we are in Vietnam.” President Johnson ends his speech.
Japanese perspective of Japanese bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States during World War II. Animated map showing Japan, neighboring Asian countries, the West Coast of the United States, and the Pacific Ocean. The map measures the distance of Hawaii between Japan and the United States. A Japanese fighter plane squadron in flight. United States Navy battleships in column underway at sea. A sailor operating a signal lamp. A captain steering the ship while other crew members work. Side view of a convoy of American destroyers and cruisers in the Pacific Ocean. An animated map of Oahu showing the location of Honolulu, Moloka’I, and Pearl Harbor. A detailed map of Oahu in Japanese.
View from a U.S. Landing Craft Infantry (LcI), of four Coastguardsmen in a sinking Higgins boat from the Attack Transport, USS Bayfield (APA-33), off Omaha Beach on D-day, in World War 2. Another Higgins boat, from the Bayfield is nearby. The four Coastguardsmen pose standing in their stricken boat. Then it goes under and they must swim. The LCI crew throw life rings to them and pull them aboard.
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