United States Coast Guard operations in World War 2. Underwater views of ship's anchors being weighed, Convoy of U.S. ships in Pacific Theater, in July, 1942. The Attack Transport, USS Hunter Liggett underway, with crews doing amphibious training. Members of the 1st Marine Division aboard USS Hunter Liggett with Coast Guardsmen. Officers confer aboard vessel. Marines read books on ship. August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines begin amphibious assault against Japanese on Guadalcanal. Naval guns bombard Guadalcanal Island. Marines descend from the USS Hunter Liggett, on nets and enter LCVPs (Higgins boats) operated by Coast Guardsmen, to assault the island. Marines hit the beach from the boats. Marines firing small howitzers and advancing on the island. November 7, 1942, convoy of eight hundred ships en route to North Africa. Warships bombard the shore. An officer observes through binoculars. British and American troops descend on nets into LCVPs from Attack transports: USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13);USS Leonard Wood (APA-12); and USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). Troops hit the beaches of North Africa, under fire.
The U.S. Capitol building (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States). Two men walking in front of the building in Washington DC. Branches of cherry blossoms in foreground. View of the U.S. Capitol dome at night. Lights in the night.
Armistice Day celebration in Paris, marking the end of World War 1. Two women raised on shoulders of American soldiers, wave American flags. Other people wave United States flags. Automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles, on Avenue des Champs Elysees in the background. French soldier plays concertina. American soldier salutes a French woman, in a fur coat, who presents him a large bouquet of flowers. War veterans parade carrying flags of various Allied Nations.One veteran is in a wheel chair and plays a bugle.. An African American French Colonial soldier stands next to the French veteran in the wheel chair and plays his bugle.Passersby give the wheelchair veteran sprigs of flowers which he places in a bunch on his uniform pocket. Parade on the streets. Several French soldiers carry an American soldier on their shoulders. He waves an American flag. Soldiers stand with a French woman, who cheers and places a bunch of flowers on the uniform of one of the soldiers.
Armistice Day celebration in Paris. French and American soldiers parade on streets of Paris celebrating end of World War 1. Men carry the United States flag and French flags. Group of parading Americans carry a young woman on their shoulders. Some women and children seen marching and dancing with the soldiers. A Parisian lamplighter begins descending his ladder, after lighting a streetlamp, but goes back up again to retrieve his wine bottle. Puffs of smoke waft over dense crowd, waving and shouting.
Paris Air Show, Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France. United States Air Force Aerial Demonstration Team ("Thunderbirds") performs, flying their F-4E aircraft. Thunderbird ground crew watches the demonstration team perform precision formation flying.
Paris Air Show. Spectators in exhibit area view aircraft. Of particular note are the British-French supersonic transport plane (Concorde) and the Soviet supersonic transport plane (TU-144) seen fairly close to each other. Soviet Aeroflot aircraft including TU-144, IL-62, YAK-40, AN-24, TU-154, MIL V-12, MI-8, IL-76 seen in the exhibition. U.S. Navy aircraft P-3C, A-7 D attack aircraft, transport aircraft C-5A, A-300 Airbus model are some of the planes in exhibition. Crowds are seen streaming through the cargo hold of the giant Lockheed C-5A. Galaxy aircraft of the 437th Military Airlift Wing of the United States Air Force Military Airlift Command.
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