African American soldiers in Europe during World War 2. A black United States Army soldier climbs down a rope ladder to an LCM boat as other fellow black soldiers on the boat look on. A group of African American soldiers on board LCM. African American soldiers standing on deck of ship overlooking LCM alongside. African American soldiers on board a landing craft mechanized (LCM) heading towards a beach. Soldiers disembark from a LCM on a beach.
Space research programs of the National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. Saturn rocket at a launch pad. A gantry is removed. The rocket is launched on a major flight test. Men at work in Mission Control station. Rocket scientist Werner von Braun is seen smiling and rubbing his hands. View of a Mission Control workstation. Group of astronauts for the Gemini and Apollo programs are seen on a visit to Cape Canaveral, Florida. Major Gordon Cooper holding a coffee cup and talking to other astronauts. They discuss a chart and work on space projects. Close up side view of Roger Chaffee. A rocket on a launch pad. Point of view shot from a camera on board a rocket, pointing down toward earth, as the rocket lifts off, showing the earth recede quickly below the rocket as it soars toward space. An astronaut inside a capsule in full space suit. Night time view of a NASA rocket on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral Florida.
A U.S. delegation visits Normandy, France, 25 years after the Allied invasion of France during World War II. Soldiers and Honor Guard lined up. Military band plays. A cameraman records as a correspondent speaks. Children carrying American flags lined up along a path. Military officers seated in chairs. Civilians stand behind barricades. French officers at the ceremony. A helicopter in flight. A French Breton woman wearing a traditional hat of the Concarneau region. American officials including General Omar Bradley and his wife, along with General J. Lawton Collins. U.S. Ambassador to France Robert Sargent Shriver is also seen. Close views of General Bradley and General Collins seated side by side. British and American flags raised at the ceremony. A sign on a memorial reads 'In memory of our dead 1st Engineer Special Brigade'. A French flag raised. British, American, French and Canadian flags near the memorial at Utah Beach in Normandy. Military Honor guards standing at attention. Two U.S. Army soldiers in a small tank vehicle near the officials. The turret revolves. General Collins assists a soldier in lighting a flame torch. The soldier gets onto the tank. General Collins places flowers at the memorial.
Landing crafts underway to beach at Peleliu Island, Palau. Smoke columns rise from the Island. Aerial view of the Island. Boats burn on surface of water.
United States Marine Corp asleep on deck of ship around Peleliu Island, Palau. Landing Crafts fire rockets at Japanese enemy on beach. Marine works inside the ship. Captain on the deck of ship. (World War II period).
Two men chain lumber stack to fork of the fork-truck. Pier team cargo handlers give hand signals to the fork-truck operator. The truck operator at the steering controls the uploading. The fork-truck moves lumber stacks to the ship. A fork-truck enters the lowered bow of the LST. It unloads the lumber stack at the base of the tank deck. A fork-truck slides its fork under a lumber stack and lowers it to ground on wooden bases. LST-1141 with its bow down in the beach area
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