Launching of United States Navy cruise missile Regulus from United States Navy submarine USS Tunny underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy Gato-class submarine USS Tunny underway in the Pacific Ocean with United States Navy Regulus missile on a launch pad aboard it. The missile being launched and it takes off emitting a smoky trail. An aircraft in flight.
The Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. Improvised port facilities being erected in "Operation Mulberry." Ships carrying troops and supplies pull up to the Mulberry piers. Troops and vehicles moving on the piers toward the shore at Normandy. A severe storm tears up the mulberry port facilities. A man crawls a rope invertedly to get to a ship. War materiel moving on the Normandy beaches. A map of Normandy. View of Seaport at Cherbourg, France. Allied and German forces moving to battle over the Cherbourg port. Large formation of Allied aircraft. United States troops battling Germans in hedgerows, on the way to Cherbourg. A United States soldier uses a SCR-536 Walkie-talkie while in hedgerow. Soldier smoking a cigarette in hedgerow. French farmers collecting hay with pitchforks. United States troops being welcomed by French residents. Meeting heavy resistance at outskirts of Cherbourg, the U.S. employs batteries of field artillery. Some infantry engaged in street fighting. Nazi German General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben surrenders to the American forces in Cherbourg.
The activities of the United States Navy in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Navy Sea, Air and Land Forces (SEAL) members in Vietnam. Three SEAL officers get aboard a United States Army UH-1B Iroquois helicopter. A member of the SEAL recon team talks to pilot and direct him by a map. Helicopter in flight over heavy jungle in Rung Sat area along the Lon Tau river. Aerial view of a barren patch of ground amidst the jungle growth, taken during the recon. Small tributaries of the Lon Tau river. Mekong area, river in the background.
United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.
United States GIs with their equipment in Germany during World War II. A German shepherd walks with a flock of sheep on a street of a town. United States Army jeeps and trucks parked on the ground. Vehicles covered with snow. A United States GI removes snow from the windshield of an army jeep.
United States President elect Herbert Hoover in Washington DC. United States President Calvin Coolidge and the president elect Herbert Hoover leave the White house building for the United States Capitol to attend the the Inaugural Ceremony. Dignitaries get into cars. The Presidential convoy drives through the city.
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