United States 511th Parachute Infantry paratroopers jump from C-47 aircraft in Luzon, Philippines. Parachutes descend towards ground.
American sailors at work on board United States aircraft carrier Yorktown during Battle of Midway in Pacific Theater during World War II. Thick smoke rises in the background.
Soldiers of United States 25th Infantry Division walk past dense jungle in Cuchi, South Vietnam during Operation Wahiawa. They prepare to deactivate booby trap with a hand grenade. (Vietnam War period).
United States troops of the 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division in Cambodia, during the Vietnam War. Several soldiers are seen in wooded area. One talks over a PR-25 radio from a tree line at the edge of large open field. Another soldier slings an M-60 machine gun over his shoulder. Then, carrying their gear, the soldiers walk across the open field toward an area where a camp is being set up. In the distance, a UH-1 Huey helicopter sits with engine running and rotor blades turnng. The soldiers enter the tree line where others are assembling with their gear and supplies, next to the open field. The soldier carrying the M-60 machine gun, waves to the camera. Closeup of some soldiers who have pitched a couple of tents and are opening boxes of supplies. A change of scene shows several troops escorting a captured North Vietnamese army (NVA) soldier, whose hands are tied behind him, to a UH-1 helicopter with engine running. The Huey is next seen taking off with the prisoner aboard. Closeup of black NVA cap, left behind,in the mud. (Note: Within a few days, all these troops distinguished themselves in combat with North Vietnamese Army troops. One, in particular, Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. Specialist Fourth Class, of Company B, 3d Battalion, heroically sacrificed his life, in combat on May 10, 1970, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.)
United States 101st Airborne Division soldiers fill sandbags in Parrots Beak, Cambodia. Other soldiers carry and place logs of wood to build bunkers. A CH-47 Chinook helicopter approaches with 105 mm Howitzer in sling.
United States 101st Airborne Division soldiers put on field gear in Parrot's Beak, Cambodia. They sit against heaps of sand at fire base. They board UH-1D helicopter and it takes off. Soldiers move across grassy field.
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