Civilian life in Vietnam early in Vietnam War. A village dog behind bushes. Viet patrol walks through the village. Children and men look on. Flat terrain in the village. Several grass huts. Roadway in the foreground. Small group of people stand with a Nun dressed in white. A classroom. Two holes made due to shell fire in the center of a building. A middle aged woman stand inside a building. Debris spread around as a result of shelling. Broken crucifix on ground. Nun stands with a group of people in the village. Vietnamese soldier talks to men. A burned out bus and a car. Fishing boat at pier. Several people in the foreground with sampan hats. Group of women and girls on board. A sampan arrives as villagers greet each other on beach area. Two Vietnamese girls stand.
Operation Double Eagle in Vietnam during Vietnam War. U.S. Marines run down white line on flight deck to the helicopter turning up. Several ships off beach in the background. Small group of Marines run down center of deck to man the helicopter on after part of flight deck. All the helicopters turning up. Another group of marines run. U.S. UH-34D helicopter takes off. Second copter lifts off. Then the third one also fly off.
Development of New Towns in Soviet Union. Rebuilt town of Volzhsky, near Volgograd, Russia. A view of a river and dry land. Bridge under construction across the Volga River. Men work at cranes. A ship underway on the Volga River, beneath the bridge steel cables and skeleton. A view of buildings in the town. Bus on road. People on streets. Traffic on a road. People in a garden. Children outside a building. Children ride bicycle. They are seated. A baby in a pram. A few fountains and a garden. People look at the fountains. Spectators seated in a stand. People on a beach. They play in the water.
Opens showing views of the U.S. Pavilion at the Expo 58 in Brussels, Belgium. An array of international flags and artistic fountains grace the Pavilion. Glimpse of the Exhibition Hall of the Soviet Union with hammer and sickle symbol on front. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser shakes hand with Nikita Khrushchev, 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nasser speaking to the 600-member assembly of the new United Arab Republic (encompassing Egypt and Syria). Arabs marching with banners. King Faisal II of Iraq and his uncle, Abdul Ilah, step to a podium. Faisal II riding in a horse-drawn carriage. View of seaport in Lebanon. A U.S. Naval task force is visible, arriving in response to a request for aid from Lebanon. U.S. marines in an amphibious landing near Beirut. They establish a beachhead as local Lebanese watch and applaud. The marines load artillery and ammunition on the beach. The scene changes to the island of Quemoy in the Taiwan Strait, where entrenched KMT Nationalist Chinese troops of Chiang Kai-Shek, are seen scrambling as they undergo constant shelling from Mainland China. The American Destroyer, USS Ammen (DD-527) is seen underway on patrol in the Taiwan Strait. U.S. Navy vessels provide relief supplies to the bombarded Islands in the Taiwan Strait. Landing craft are loaded with essential supplies for delivery. Sailors are seen throwing sacks of food over their ship railing into a landing craft below. A line of laden landing craft follows in the wake of a Navy ship. High rise apartments in West Berlin, Germany. West Berlin citizens are seen going about their daily activities. A large sign in German warns “Achtung! Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin” (“Warning! You are leaving West-Berlin”). Views of damaged buildings left untouched in East Berlin. Militia in black uniforms perform close order drills in East Berlin. Street sign identifies Unter Den Linden. The formerly elegant avenue is seen virtually deserted. A horse-drawn carriage moves along, and men push a cart full of supplies. Bicyclists ride along the side of the street. Headquarters of the 4-powers administration building is seen without a Soviet flag. French, American, and British soldiers stand guard. (Soviets are absent.)
Late 1930s and early 1940s life in Jerusalem, Palestine. Views from 1917 era as British military patrol under British Army General Edmund Allenby advances in military trucks up the plains from Gaza. Arab forces riding on camels. The Arabs move in support. Jerusalem is captured by the British in 1917. British men in the city. Jerusalem aerial view of late 1930s and approximately 1940 "new" Jerusalem contrasting the ancient and old parts of the city and new buildings. Narrator descriptions and visual portrayals of nationalism among Jewish and Arab residents in Jerusalem. Jewish men construct what the narrator terms as "a typical Zionist house just going up" Jewish civilians walking on the streets including one woman pushing a baby carriage. Cars move on a street and a view of a bus moving up Queen Mary Avenue. Jewish residents at a beach of Tel Aviv. They enjoy the water and dance the hora at the water's edge. A British man teaches an Arabic farmer the modern methods of agriculture. Men harvest food grains with a harvester. Arab boys in a class get a proper education "as in Europe." Palestinian girls in dresses play a game of basketball. The ex mayor of Jerusalem Hussein al-Khalidi in the center and other people around him.
Maneuvers prior to D-Day landings in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland during World War II. Landing crafts heading for a beach as seen from USS Bayfield (APA-33). U.S. troops come onto the deck of USS Bayfield. An LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Mechanized) alongside USS Bayfield. The deck of USS Bayfield showing troops. A boat crewman secures a line from an accommodation ladder. The troops walk up the ladder.
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