Air-Sea rescue by PBM Mariner aircraft. PBM planes in flight. PBM Mariner aircraft flied low near the water surface. Several vessels underway. Mountains in the background.
Air-Sea rescue by PBM Mariner aircraft. PBM planes land among ships lying off island. Smoke rises from an explosion on the beach. Men paddle in life raft. Line is thrown to him from PBM. Life raft pulled to PBM tail. Aviator in rubber life raft towed alongside PBM. The aviator climbs into plane head first. Empty life boat drifts freely. PBM taxis for take off. Tail of an aircraft. PMB towed to the stern of a vessel. Men watch aboard. Aviator floats in a rubber life raft. Rescued aviators and enlisted men in aircraft rearm boat. Officer interviews enlisted survivor and takes notes. Rearming boat gets underway and leaves.
United States Army 1st Infantry Division nicknamed 'Big Red One' arrives at the beach. American color guard on a beach in Vietnam. General William C Westmoreland, Commander General, U.S. Army, Vietnam, on the beach landing area. Major General Jonathan O Seaman, Commander General 1st Infantry Division, on beach. He converses with Brigadier General John "Jack" Norton, Commander of the 1st Air Cavalry Division and Colonel Curt Aronson of his Division. .A Landing Craft Utility (LCU) arrives carrying the first contingent of the 1st Infantry Division. As the troops disembark, General Westmoreland shakes hands with first two soldiers. The soldiers carry barrack bags. Remainder of the film shows troops offloading from the LCU and making their way across the sand past the Generals and the color guard.(Vietnam War period).
July 10, 1943, U.S. invades Sicily in Italy. Fleet of warships underway. Navy bombardment of Sicily. Coast Guardsman observes through binoculars. Coast Guardsmen carry troops and supplies in LCVPs (Higgins Boats). LST-356 approaching Blue Beach 2, in the "Cent" area on July 10, 1943, loaded with tanks and other vehicles. A beach master signals with semaphore flags. Troops landing from assault boats. Concentrated enemy air attacks destroy U.S. boats and ships. Enemy aircraft in flight. U.S. troops firing. A map shows Italy. September 9, 1943, amphibious assault on Anzio, Italy. Naval bombardment, followed by troop assault on the beaches.
A uniformed Berlin Policeman helps a young girl cross the busy street. A woman takes direction from the policeman. Pedestrians stand on sides of the roads. Men, work at a construction site in the roadway. An electric trolley car (tram) passes in the background and a horse-drawn cart passes in foreground. Two construction workers perch precariously as they work on steel framework of a tall building high above the street. Elevated train passes through a building as truck passes underneath on the street. View of elevated train from a building, high above. Crowded open air market with vendors, wagons, trucks, horse-drawn wagons. A woman vendor wraps fresh fish in newspaper for woman customer. Pair of horses in traces eat together from feed trough. Two men on horse-drawn wagon carrying cargo of beer barrels. Production line in beer factory. Workers seal barrels of beer. Machine fills beer bottles.
A nurse talks and laughs with two girls. She gives a bottle with nipple to one, who drinks from it. Modern curvilinear multi-story residential apartment buildings. Trains pass above each other on crossing railroad bridges, while an excursion boat and barge pass below on a river. Trucks and electric trams pass on the street. Berlin Policeman directs traffic. A massive clock tower. Men at an outdoor soup kitchen. A Berlin policeman is among those eating soup. German people sit in an open-air sidewalk restaurant. Chefs prepare food in the kitchen. Dishes cleaned in the kitchen. Food is served to the diners. Double decker buses pass by. Women squeeze sausage links from an extruding device. Sausages placed on racks. Men drink beverages and eat at a restaurant counter. Railroad porter sits on train station platform and eats a sandwich while people walk past, behind him. Old man, driver of horse-drawn carriage, wearing top hat and heavy coat, sits atop the carriage eating a sandwich. Petrol station attendant services an automobile in the gasoline station. Man on sidewalk eats items from a paper bag. Woman decorating store window behind him. Bicycle parked against building.
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