American radio and television broadcaster Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey at Takhli Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. A United States T-39 A aircraft arrives at the air base. Arthur Godfrey and others get off the plane. 335th Wing Commander and other officers greet Godfrey dressed in Air force uniform. Godfrey shakes hands with officers and talks to them. He gets into a staff car and drives away.
American radio and television broadcaster Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey at Takhli Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Godfrey is introduced to the crew lined up near a camouflaged United States HH-43 B helicopter. Godfrey shakes hands with men. He looks at the helicopter as the officers brief him.
American radio and television broadcaster Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey at Takhli Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Godfrey shakes hands with crew members lined up near a United States KC-135 A aircraft. He climbs up the ladder and gets down. He talks to officers and takes down notes on a piece of paper. He gets into a staff car and drives away.
A U.S. mine sweep boat operation in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Wonsan in Korea. Two men of Underwater Demolition Team padding in a rubber boat toward a mine sweep boat. Men aboard a craft as they put a pig or a marking buoy over the side of the craft. A man puts a depressor over the side. A United States destroyer underway as it fires at the coast. A large spray of water in the foreground as the destroyer continues to fire in the background.
United States Army Field Artillery Battalion of 92nd Infantry Division (Colored), "Buffalo Soldiers," equipped with tractor-drawn 8-inch Howitzers, in Mantes-Gassicourt, France during World War 2. African American soldiers of fire control group observe town below, from vantage point on overlooking hill. One of them looks through a periscopic binocular telescope. Others look through ordinary binoculars. Closeup of a Master Sergeant looking through binoculars. Camera pans across the valley, town, and agricultural fields below. Camera focuses briefly on Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Mantes (Notre Dame de Mantes) in Mantes-la-Jolie and then shifts to battery of 8 inch howitzers firing from camouflaged positions in foliage. Gun crews step away as each howitzer fires, and then rush back to reload and fire again. (Note: These batteries are likely from the 795th or the 999th Field Artillery Battalion)
United States Army Field Artillery Battalion of 92nd Infantry Division (Colored), "Buffalo Soldiers," equipped with tractor-drawn 8-inch Howitzers, in Mantes de Gassicourt, France during World War 2. Opening scene shows an 8-inch howitzer shell on a stand. It has the words: "Harlem to Hitler" written on it in chalk. A gunner screws a fuse into its nose. Closeup of the shell and chalk message. Four soldiers then pick up the shell and walk it towards the breech of their 8-inch howitzer. Cloeup of the gun breech as gunner locks breech and then unlocks and opens it for the camera. Scene shifts to gun crew member communicating on field telephone. Camouflage netting is visible behind him. Next, a gun crew member is seen holding his ears as if to protect against the noise of a gun firing. Change of scene shows members of gun crew relaxing near their 8-inch howitzer, near a grove of trees. New scene shows brief glimpse of a shell exploding in hill above Mantes. (The tower of the Mantes Notre Dame cathedral is seen in lower left of the shot.) (Note: These scenes probably show members of the 795th or the 999th Field Artillery Battalion)
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