A large military barge, marked "US RHF-25" (Rhino Ferry) passes camera viewing from a boat in the water (unseen). Large transport ships seen in background. The barge is filled with military equipment including trucks, construction equipment, and soldiers. As it proceeds, the camera reveals a large transport ship behind it. Closeup of soldiers standing among the cargo on the barge. Landing ship Tank, (LST 499) flanked by a tug boat. Barrage balloons aloft. Closeup of LST 499 port bow. A transport ship in the background. (Note: on June 8th, 1944, LST 499 struck a mine while backing away from Utah Beach, loaded with wounded and medical personnel. Fourteen Crew members were lost, and an unknown number of casualties among the wounded passengers and medical personnel.)
Allied forces during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II. Bow section of a transport (AP). Vehicles being lowered over side of a liberty ship onto barges. A Landing Craft Tank (LCT) underway. Assault force in the background. View from a Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) tied up alongside a pier. Troops on pier. A LCM underway toward beach. Troops aboard with all their gear. Landing Crafts Personnel (LCP) and LCMs tied up alongside pontoon pier. Barrage balloons flying in the background. Troops in landing craft alongside pier.
Allied troops establish a beachhead at Normandy during World War II. German prisoners marching along as an Allied soldier watches. A Military Policeman (MP) walks along. German Prisoners of War (POW) seated on the sand in a small barbed-wire enclosure. Group of prisoners. Trucks on the beach in the background.
The USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Map of Marcus Island and surrounding islands in Japan. Animation depicts the U.S. fleet's aim to recapture the Philippines and land on the main land of Asia to help their ally China. USS Yorktown underway. A map depicts its advance towards its target of Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands. Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters in flight. U.S. planes in dogfights with Japanese aircraft over Kwajalein Island. Aerial gun camera footage shows United States aircraft attacking Japanese aircraft. Japanese airplane is hit and explodes. Another Japanese airplane falling from sky to crash in water. Heavy bombardment and strafing on land of enemy targets, wrecked aircraft. Black smoke rises from explosions on the burning island. Heavy shelling by surface ships. Assault crafts filled with U.S. Marines and Army soldiers hit the beaches on Kwajalein. U.S. airplanes in flight over the island.
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. USAF airmen at the Phan Rang Air Base south of Nha Trang in Vietnam. Airmen carry a boat motor into a building. A sign outside reads: 'Personnel Services - Athletics, R&R, Education, Theater, Library, Beach'. Stationary military vehicles outside a building. Trucks drive past as one halts before the building. Airmen get off the military truck and go inside. An illustrated sign for 'The Bamboo Viper', Phan Rang AB NCO Open Mess. An open air theater on the Base. Barracks, buildings and storage facilities. Two openings in a shed on an open ground. A sign on the door reads 'Women'. (Vietnam War period).
United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program depicts Soviet military equipment and its use in terms of purpose and jurisdiction. Portrayal of amphibious landings by the Soviet Navy. The task force advances at sea. Sailors at controls aboard the ship. An armored hovercraft travels over water and then on shore to support troops. Soviet Army main battle tank T-62s unloaded from the hovercraft in enemy territory. Another hovercraft comes ashore. Troops disembark from the craft, advance across the beach and inland. Tanks and soldiers advance amidst heavy fire. Rockets and other weapons fired. Soldiers in tanks. A soldier takes cover under an enemy tank and then launches a grenade at the tank. Tanks fire guns. Smoke from explosions in the field. Soldiers take cover and run out of burning buildings.
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