President of the United States Gerald R. Ford, Jr awards medals to soldiers of Vietnam War during a ceremony in White House in Washington DC. United States Army soldiers Louis R. Rocco and Jon R. Cavaiani with their families enter a hall in the White House. President of the United States Gerald Ford Jr walks up to the platform to the podium. He addresses the gathering. He talks about the Vietnam War. He talks about the heroism of the U.S. officers and states some of the incidents.
Private Snafu Title Sequence. Cartoon animation “Private Snafu” depicts living conditions for soldiers posted in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. A view of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. A Japanese soldier hops on the Aleutian Islands after emerging from the Pacific Ocean, only for a strong American soldier to stomp his feet when he opened “the backdoor to the United States”. Japanese soldier hops and dives back to the Pacific Ocean. View of Tokyo, Japan from the “Back door to the United States”. The cartoon depicts how harsh and challenging the environment in Aleutian Islands- having rain, snow, thunder and whirlwind gales. A seal resembling The Great Schnozzola (Jimmy Durante) replies with the Lower East Side accent, “Nevertheless, that’s the conditions that prevail.” View of a GI camp in the Aleutian Islands. Private Snafu sets out on an important mission, he changes his outfit according to weather. View of the vegetation of the Aleutian Islands, only grass in the tundra environment. After the narrator stated, “There are no trees”, a rabbit replied sarcastically “You’re telling me!”. United States Army Camp in Aleutian Islands covered in thick, gummy, mud. A serviceman is riding on two servicemen submerged in the mud. Inside a Quonset hut, American soldiers are playing dice. An earthquake rattles the Quonset hut and changes the position of the dice. Strong winds in the Aleutian Islands uproot Quonset huts, military installations and even the mountains. Soldiers struggle walking through a “Williwaw” (or strong winds in the Aleutian Islands) until it stopped, causing the soldiers to fall to the ground and the eggs a soldier was carrying to break. Private Snafu walks in the Aleutian Islands through different weather conditions in different outfits. Soldier drives a military jeep with skis in the snow. A cartoon B-17 covered in snow as it flies above the Aleutian Islands. An Eskimo sits around an ice fishing hole in the snow-covered B-17 wing. Private Snafu is wearing a steam whistle as he walks. Private Snafu changes his outfits according to weather condition while walking. Airmen run out of the Briefing Hut and dive in the watery air strip. Private Snafu dons a scuba diving suit to retrieve a B-17 submerged in the watery air strip. Private Snafu inside aircraft with fish. Private Snafu ejects the fish out of the aircraft. The fish activates a parachute to fall safely, only for it to drop into the gaping maw of the Schnozzola seal. The Schnozzola seal repeats his earlier dialogue to describe life in the Aleutian Islands.
Men talking outside the Las Vegas City Hall. A man carrying a WHO case enters the city hall. A man plasters a sign that reads “All cameras must be registered at photo desk no binoculars”. Personnel attaches tags on cameras. Sign reads “Joint Test Information Office”. Journalists attend an Operation Doorstep briefing by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Defense Department, and Civil Defense officials. Journalists on bus heading to Yucca Flat of the Nevada Test Site. A man stands in front of a sign that reads “U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Proving Ground Mercury, Nevada”. Bus enters the Nevada Test Site. United States civil defense observers and media representatives gather at Yucca Flat. Cameramen carrying equipment. Two men placing a sign “Main St.”. Personnel inspect House Number 2 in the Nevada Test Site. United States soldiers move into a trench two miles from ground zero. Media, newsmen, Television crews, observers and civil defense personnel gather 7 miles from ground zero for the Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapons test. Sign reads “CIVIL DEFENSE”. TV crew prepare their cameras. A wristwatch moving to 5:20. Atomic bomb blast forms a glaring mushroom cloud over the Nevada Test Site. House is quickly demolished. Civil Defense observers wearing goggles witness the blast. Tremendous glare of the nuclear blast. The house collapsing is then shown in stop motion (slow motion). Narrator details the effects of the nuclear explosion on the house, describing the changes seen in the stop motion frames, and stating that all it happened in 2 1/3 seconds. Blast wave blows house apart.
Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon's unscheduled arrival by train in London, United Kingdom. Londoners greet them and photographers take pictures. Mrs. Nixon participates in the dedication ceremony of the new American Memorial Chapel of St. Paul's Cathedral. Interiors of St. Paul's Cathedral (St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD, United Kingdom).
Paul Robert Ignatius, the United States Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) visits USS Shangri La (CV-38) in the Mediterranean Sea. View of the Marine Honor Guard standing at attention on the flight deck. Front view of Vice Admiral Edward H. Martin, COMSIXTHFLT (United States Sixth Fleet), approaching up the flight deck with a small party of officers unit. Vice Admiral Edward H. Martin, and party walk past over the flight deck. Vice Admiral Martin, Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis, Rear Admiral Isaman talk, next to the C-2A. View of one rank of the sideboys at Parade Rest on the flight deck. View of the honorable Paul Robert Ignatius, the United States Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), walk over the flight deck alone. View of View of an unidentified Commander come down, the SECNAV Ignatius having received his Honors. The SECNAV inspects the Marine Honor Guard on the flight deck. Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis, Commander Carrier Division Four (ComCarDiv 4), and Captain Coogan, aboard USS Shangri-LA, (CVA-38). View of SECNAV standing on the flight deck, receives a 19 gun salute. SECNAV standing beside the C-2A chat with Rear Admiral Geis, and Capt. Coogan. SECNAV getting aboard the C-2A over the ramp, after having received a souvenir book from Capt. Coogan. SECNAV being assisted into a life jacket by one of the crewmen of the C-2A.
Allied tankers in Port-en-Bessin after the Normandy landings in World War 2. Allied tankers tied up in the wharf of Port-en-Bessin for the newly installed Ship-to-Shore gasoline transfer. Sign says “NO SMOKING”. Men flange flexible hose to outlet valves of a tanker connecting directly to pipelines on shore. A Frenchman gesturing and standing near pipelines. A man turns valve. Gasoline pipelines. Men working on portable units used for pumping 80 octane gasoline via pipelines to inland storage tanks. Pipelines of various sizes from the shore to a forest. A sign says “NO SMOKING” in a forest with pipelines. Storage tanks for gasoline. A storage tank with sandbag fortification. Pumps used for inland storage tanks. Men filling a United States Army tank truck from a storage tank. A United States soldier pushes a lever. Gasoline flows from hose to tank truck. A soldier fills 5-gallon containers with gasoline from an army tank truck. Soldiers load 5-gallon gasoline containers to a truck. A United States soldier fills up a truck with a 5-gallon gasoline jerrycan in France. Gasoline is poured on a truck fuel tank.
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