Preflight and post flight activities at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. Aerial view of Da Nang Air Base and fuel storage tanks on ground. Number of C-123 B Provider, United States Marine Corps F-4B Phantom, C-130B Hercules, Grumman HU-16B Albatross, F-100D Super Sabre and F-104C Starfighter aircraft parked on ground. United States Marine Corps tent area. Aerial view of the 23rd Air Base Group Headquarters. A building under construction near the ramp. Aerial view of cargo ships anchored at harbor area and native fishing boats on the beach. United States radar facilities atop a mountain. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army Air Corps Alaska Flight Project begins in Washington DC. YB-10 bomber (tail number 151) takes off from Patterson Field, Ohio, heading for Washington, DC, the official starting point for the operation. A few Martin YB-10 aircraft taxiing at Bolling Field, Washington, DC (20 MacDill Blvd SE, Washington, DC 20032, USA). Several Martin YB-10 bombers parked in a line, with ground crews attending them. Chief of the United States Air Corps, General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois; United States Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Commander of the Alaska Flight, Colonel Henry H. Arnold, stand along with the Alaska Flight pilots, in front of a project airplane, number 143, painted with the project logo: an eagle perched over a map of Alaska. Secretary Woodring meets and shakes hands with the pilots.
United States Army Brigadier General Benjamin Davis and troops in Rennes, France during World War II. Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. speaks to correspondents. Brigadier General Davis Sr. smiles. Military trucks drive past French nuns and children on the road to Rennes. A crowd of nuns and children cheer for the soldiers as they pass through Rennes. United States Army soldiers in vehicles enter Rennes, heading towards the Palais du Commerce (Place de la République, 35000 Rennes, France) on Rue Jules Simon. French men and women cheering for the arrival of United States Army soldiers. Two soldiers who had been captured by the Germans. The soldiers talk to the civilians gathered. A woman kisses a soldier. French resistance fighters escort French women collaborators (with the Nazi forces). A French woman collaborationist, with a shaved head and face covered in iodine, being taunted by a mob as she is being led away by resistance fighters.
Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel Luis Quezon passes away during his exile in the United States. A Filipino woman in mourning. President Quezon’s family, prominent United States and Filipino officials seated inside the cathedral. Funeral held at St. Matthew's Cathedral (1725 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036, United States) in Washington, D.C. They pay tribute to the late President. Exterior of the cathedral. Casket containing the body of President Quezon is loaded into a hearse by pallbearers. Cars passing on the street. The casket is taken to Memorial Bridge. The casket is removed from the hearse and placed on a caisson. A band plays. Soldiers march holding rifles. The caisson moves across the Memorial Bridge into Arlington Cemetery. (World War II period).
Preparations underway for the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. Trucks carrying Signal Corps equipment parked outside Livadia Palace (Baturina Street, 44A, Livadiya 29865). A truck backing. Russian laborers and United States Army personnel unload a crate from a truck. Men try to unload a crate from a truck. They pull ropes to pull crate. A crate is unloaded from a United States Army truck. Men pushing a Jeep. A man stands on the top of a crate. United States Signal Corps personnel setting up equipment.
United States intervention in the Lebanon Crisis. U.S. Marines reaching the coastline of Lebanon. The Marines climb out of rafts. People watching the Marines. U.S. bomber aircraft in flight. Lebanese people on a beach. U.S. Marines unloading ammunition from the rafts. The Marines holding guns moving into the city of Beirut. The Marines guarding Beirut International Airport. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower during a speech says that U.S. intervention could have serious effects. He says that the United States is neither looking for any material gain nor has it any emotional hostility against any government. The sole aim is the preservation of independence of every state. Several aircraft on an airfield. U.S. 2nd Marine Division enplaning at Cherry Point in North Carolina, U.S. Soldiers holding equipment beside the aircraft. The soldiers walking in columns. Several aircraft on the airfield. U.S. Army airborne troops beside the aircraft. The troops getting into the aircraft. Airborne troops from Germany at Adena air base in Turkey. British paratroops from Cyprus boarding aircraft bound for Jordan. A Royal Air Force aircraft takes off. U.S. aircraft carrier USS Leyte in a harbor. Supplies carried on cranes. U.S. sailors speaking over telephones in phone boxes. Sailors holding cartons moving on a ramp to a vessel. Officials at the United Nations building during a meeting. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Henry Cabot Lodge speaking into a microphone. Officials beside the Ambassador. The Ambassador calls for decisive action by the UN and says U.S. Marines will be withdrawn in accordance with the UN action.
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