British troops disembark during World War I at Sedd el Bahr, Cape Helles, in the Dardanelles, Turkey. Soldiers sit and stand in ship and at piers. Soldiers lay a narrow gauge rail track from beach. A steam roller stands nearby the laid track and soldiers stand around. A small car is moved on tracks.
Carlos Castillo Armas arrives in a plane, three days before he is inaugurated as President of Guatemala. . He is greeted. Armed military personnel are seen all around. Armas directs two ladies to a car and he is seen sitting in one. Press and media wait. A U.S. Air Force Colonel is seen talking with two civilians. Several U.S. Air Force personnel in uniform are seen on a sidewalk talking together. Three PT-26 vintage aircraft fly by. A contingent of Guatemalan soldiers march by. On the airport tarmac, a number of officials greet one another with hugs and smiles. View out the window of an American aircraft in flight. The U.S. Air Force insignia plainly visible on the wing. Aerial view of airport and adjoining race track. Local people gather on ground at the airport. A formation consisting of 2 DC-3s, one AT-6 and a Twin Beach, flies by. Large crowd at the airport watches. Armas stands on top step of Liberation Army DC-3 (C-47) aircraft ladder. Well-wisher throws confetti. Military photographers on wing and top of aircraft. A formal honor guard in traditional military uniforms stands in formation. Some heavily armed men make their way through the dense crowd. Contingent of Guatemalan troops marches by the crowd.
5-inch shells from USS Mansfield hitting the shore line, the area containing the Viet Cong during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. Smoke arises from shore. White phosphorus shells explode at the shore line. Mountains in background of the shore. Shells striking beach area from USS Mansfield. 5-inch gun firing at shore. A man enters the mount. Empty shell casings come out of the chutes. Twin guns of the mount fire salvo. The mount fires regularly. A man stands at the mount as it fires. (Vietnam War period).
USS Mansfield hitting 5-inch shells on the shore line, the area containing the Viet Cong during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. View of shore. Smoke arise from shore. White phosphorus shells explodes at the shore line. Mountains in background of the shore. Shells striking beach area fired from USS Mansfield. 5-inch gun firing at shore. A man enters the mount. Empty shell casings come out of the chutes. Twin guns of the mount fire salvo. A man stands at the mount as it fires. (Vietnam War period).
Slate refers to efforts to overcome problems with compressed powder rockets. A large crowd is gathered to watch a demonstration of a Zucker mail rocket. Gerhard Zucker walks ahead and left of Several uniformed Brown Shirts, AKA Nazi Stormtrooper (Sturmabteilung) as they carry a large rocket down some stairs at a beach. Uniformed Hitler youth (Hitlerjugend) are also seen in the crowd of spectators. A cinematographer sets up his camera on structure near the water. Next, the rocket is seen set upon its inclined launching stand as Zucker makes ready the four rockets on each side of the large mail carrier. Closeup of Zucker doing this as another person deposits mail through a door atop the rocket body. Scene shifts to the Wadden Sea off Cuxhaven,on April 9, 1933, where Zucker follows Nazi Stormtroopers carrying the mail rocket across wet sands. Spectators stand shoulder-to-shoulder atop a hill in the background.Zucker standing alone next to the rocket. He and an assistant ignite the 8 side rockets and the mail rocket takes off. But, instead of heading straight, it noses up and loops over backwards, falling to the sand. Stormtroopers lift up the damaged device. Later, Zucker is seen designing a launch with concentric guide rings. He made several attempts in 1934 and 1935, to convince British Royal Mail officials of the viability of rocket mail. He is seen in the last attempt on the Isle of Wight, in January, 1935, standing by his rocket, surrounded by English spectators. His launch stand with concentric rings is clearly seen. He places mail in the rocket body and drops it down through the rings on the launch stand, ignites it and it appears to take off smoothly.(It actually failed.) Views of Belgian Karl Roberti and his postal rocket. An American rocket carrying a line out to a boat needing rescue offshore.
U.S. Army soldiers on road to Saint Marcouf, after invading Normandy in the D-Day invasion of France during World War 2. Paratroopers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division take German prisoners. A U.S. soldier talks to small French boy and girl. The girl smiles. 101st Airborne troopers display a captured Nazi flag. Allied supplies and reinforcements coming ashore on the Normandy beachheads. German prisoners of war being escorted under guard and loaded aboard USS LCI(L) 584. Disabled USS LCI-30 and some dead U.S. soldiers on the beach.
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