United States Air Force Major Howard F. O'Neal climbing into Martin B-57B Canberra tactical bomber cockpit in Bien Hoa Air Base during the Vietnam War. Thick dark smoke ejected from sides of engines of a B-57 bomber as crewmen watch. Ordnance seen consists of 500-lb and 750-lb bombs. A crew man directs a taxiing B-57B (BA-910) bomber aircraft. The bomber makes a turn as it taxis.
A United States Air Force Martin B-57B Canberra tactical bomber starting engines. Thick, dark smoke emits from bomber engines. United States Air Force crewmen service B-57B bombers at Bien Hoa Air Base during the Vietnam War. Aircraft mechanics remove safety pins from landing gear. A mechanic shows the safety pins to the pilot after removal. A crewman directs a bomber forward. Crewmen watch the B-57 aircraft taxiing. Ordnance seen consists of 500-lb and 750-lb bombs. Martin B-57 Canberra tactical bomber takes off from Bien Hoa.
United States soldiers unload weapons and place them on the ground during the Vietnam War. Crates with various markings. Captured North Vietnamese weapons such as rifles, submachine guns, and ammunition on display. The soldiers inspect Chinese anti-tank and mortar rounds captured from North Vietnamese forces. A finger points to Chinese markings. North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh meets with delegates. Ho Chi Minh and other North Vietnamese communist leaders attend meeting with United States officials. “Our war aim in South Vietnam is peace. President Johnson has directed me to do everything possible to bring this matter from the battlefield to the conference table. And so we’ve been utilizing all of the existing and available political machinery for that purpose” says Secretary of State Dean Rusk during an interview.
Refugees in railroad cars guarded by White Russian soldiers during Russian Civil War. An American soldier takes a loaf of bread from vendor and gives it to refugees. He gives cigarettes and other things to refugees in railroad car. Russian family with possessions. Women and children seen in railroad car. White Russian troops march and inspect folded tents on carts beside railroad car. View from inside moving railroad car. Siberian snow and smoke from locomotive seen from car. View of long train from rear, as it goes around curve. (Timeframe is both Russian Civil War and World War I)
Opening scene shows German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel gesturing as he hosts members of a Japanese military mission and a Turkish military delegation (headed by Colonel General Cemil Cahit Toydemir). At Adolf Hitler's invitation, they are on a tour of the Eastern front and English channel coasts between June 25th and July 7th, 1943, during World War 2. Here, they are seen inspecting German positions and witnessing firepower demonstration on the Russian Front near Kharkov (also Kharkiv) just south of Kursk. They observe a German artillery gun crew as they demonstrate rapid firing of their field piece. Shells explode raising black smoke. Closeup of a senior Japanese military official. Turkish and Japanese visiters board two small open train cars driven by German soldiers on motorcycles adapted for the purpose. Following a pause, the scene shifts to the visiting officers inspecting German armor, including a small armored personnel carrier; a Tiger Tank of Pz.Abt.503; and other armored vehicles. They watch a Tiger tank moving along a muddy berm rotating its turret and 88mm gun as it moves. Another tank races past the camera at high speed, raising clouds of dust. A German gun crew, in a trench, fires an MG 42 heavy machine gun. They look up and camera focuses on formations of German JU 87 Stuka dive bombers flying overhead. Visiting officer peers through a periscopic viewing device, as Large explosion occurs in the field. German, Japanese, and Turkish officers converse as a huge plume of smoke rises in the background, capturing their attention.
Gun fired from a boat. Shell strikes near opposite shore. Wounded Russian White Guards carried on stretchers, being loaded on boats at the beach, for evacuation. A doctor in white coat and medical hat accompanies them. Boats loaded with evacuating White Guards, head for Vladivostok harbor, where they pull up beside a large steamship. American troops lined up on wharf. Large American flag flying from docked American warship. Officers inspect American troops readying for departure. Troops are loaded aboard launch flying American flag, and depart from the wharf. The American warship is seen steaming out of the harbor.
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