U.S. Army soldiers, of the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team, at religious service prior to engaging German forces in Bruyeres, France, during World War 2. After lighting candles beside a cross on a battlefield altar, a Japanese-American Chaplain (Captain) conducts services for 'E' Company. Candles and a cross on a table. Soldiers kneel in prayer. They read from the Bible and sing hymns.
Second Battalion Aid station of Japanese-American 442nd Regimental combat team in Belmont, France during World War 2. A jeep bearing a red cross flag carries a wounded soldier to 2nd Battalion aid station. The wounded soldier is examined and his chest bandages are secured by medics, who then write up report.. The soldiers were engaged in battle to rescue the Lost Battalion in the Vosges Mountains.
The Aisne-Marne Operation in France during World War 1. American Expeditionary Forces (AEC) 111th Infantry contingent bivouacked on side of a hill in Crezeney, France. Their horses graze in field below. Closeup of soldiers drinking directly from a small pond, and filling containers with water from it. Battle-damaged buildings in the background. Scene shifts to U.S. 119th Field Artillery, near Mount Saint Martin in Lorraine. A gun crew is seen behind an entrenched French heavy gun (Canon de 155mm Long Mle 1917 GPF). Views of the gun breech and open split tail carriage. Closeup of Gunner cranking a control wheel to elevate the gun barrel. He then makes some fine aiming adjustments. Camera focuses on a soldier standing near a large tree trunk and then pans over to the gunner adjusting aim of the 155mm gun. Scene shifts to another gun crew in some shrubbery, firing a French 75 field piece.
Elements of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division defending Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, in the last major battle of the Vietnam War. View from Base Ripcord toward wooded hills from which the North Vietnamese 324B Division is laying siege. It is extremely windy causing canvas covers to flap. The camera is focused on a hilltop where enemy positions are located. Bombs explode there, dropped by U.S.aircraft (unseen). At times large clouds of white smoke rise from the site.
African American U.S. Army infantry soldiers bivouacked among shrubbery near a field in Germany during World War 2. Large canvas tarpaulins set up as temporary shelter. Several African American soldiers preparing breakfast. One slices bacon into a frying pan set up on the hood of a jeep. Several other soldiers gathered around the jeep. A soldier using a long handled shovel to dig a deep foxhole. A view of him sitting down in the foxhole. View of the bivouac site with a statue, of Christ on the cross, in foreground, and tents; several troops at a campfire; and an antiaircraft machine gun in the background. Two M20 armored cars parked near a German house.
Activities of U.S. Marines of "F" Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, near Xuan Hai, during Operation Thor, in the Vietnam War. Corporal David P. Jackson of 3rd Division Radio and TV, in a bullet proof vest, and a camouflaged helmet holds a microphone while seated on the ground and speaks. Second Platoon Leader 1st Lieutenant William G. Harreld, home town Kentucky, wearing a bulletproof vest begins speaking. Corporal Jackson speaks into the microphone. Lettering on Corporal Jackson's helmet reads 3rd Div. Press. Platoon Sergeant of the Second Platoon Staff Sergeant John Anderson who is seated wearing protective glasses over his helmet begins speaking. Lieutenant Pierce begins speaking while seated on the ground in a dirt area.
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