British warships sailing towards Salerno Beach in Salerno Italy. Soldiers fire from anti-aircraft guns mounted on the deck sides. View of smoke rising from another ship, soldier talks over radio, and several army trucks parked on the Landing Ship Tank (LST). Troopships, assault boats, and Destroyers visible in the flotilla. Warships heading towards the Salerno harbor. A soldier with a bandaged hand drinks from a bottle. The LST captain looks through binoculars. Text LST-2 written on the bow of the ship. (World War II period).
Various British military tanks and vehicles passing through the dusty narrow roads in Salerno Italy, after landing at beach head. Soldiers on the vehicles holding guns moving by the rough roads. (World War II period).
U.S. Army soldiers climb down from transport ship and board small barges. LCVP Landing craft advance toward Red Beach. Soldiers with rifles and barrack bags on back running ashore. Several soldiers sitting in DUKW amphibious vehicles. Soldiers get in DUKWs on the shore. (During Operation Avalanche in World War II).
Soviet military exercises. A beach landing under fire and establishment of a bridge for water crossing. High view of Soviet landing craft coming ashore as a machine gun nest fires. Soviet tanks entering the water. A truck on shore discharges a large cylinder which automatically unfolds into a floating dock after it hits the water. Soviet troops on the semi-floating dock unfolding more panels. Soviet military trucks crossing a temporary bridge. The trucks fire upward at aircraft targets while crossing. View of a Soviet Su-7B aircraft flying overhead. A shell explodes at the water's edge beside a temporary bridge. Trucks crossing the bridge. Boats pushing pieces of a floating bridge into place, and then views of trucks and a train crossing the completed bridge over the water.
Aerial view of buildings and beaches on coast of England, United Kingdom, during World War 2. Narrator describes preparations by British soldiers for an invasion of England by German forces. British soldiers train for defensive operations. They run holding rifles and take up positions along the coast. Artillery gun barrel as the gun is fired. A group of soldiers run carrying guns. Two soldiers walk. A church and a field. A soldier checks the identity of a woman and a man. Another one stops a vehicle and checks the identity of a civilian driver. Soldiers board vehicles. British aircraft overhead in flight, on patrol against German attack. British troops hold guns and march. New recruits are processed: Man in civilian suit stands in queue to receive military uniform and equipment as he enters the British armed forces. A ship carrying troops from Canada departs its home port bound for the war front. Families of the troops wave from dock and wish them good bye.
A native village near Nha Trang, Vietnam. Scenes in and around the native village. A native man in a loincloth stands near a jeep. Natives near their huts. Women with children. People on a beach. Civilians on a street. Vietnamese women wearing coolie hats ride bicycles. Boats in a river. Interior of a Vietnamese command post. An SEA wall map. A soldier works and talks over the phone at a table. (Vietnam War period).
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