Reconnaissance party passes through wreckage on an airfield in Nuremberg, Germany during World War II. A wrecked Luftwaffe aircraft lying on ground. Burning buildings in the background. A German plane burns and flames rise up. United States engineer reconnaissance party drives around the Nazi airfield. Burning Nazi hangar. Reconnaissance party drives through airfield wreckage. Formation of U.S. aircraft C-47 Skytrain overhead.
NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo" in Germany. Marshal Alphonse Juin of France, Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, arrives by car and is greeted by Lieutenant General William M. Hoge, Commander of the United States 7th Army . (General Hoge is also the Maneuver Director.) NATO military observers accompany Marshal Juin. They all walk through the woods to an encampment. There they examine a map depicting the exercise region. They pause outside a tent and then proceed further through the woods. a wooded area. Several They walk through the woods to an encampment. There they examine a map depicting exercise information. They pause outside a tent and then proceed further through the woods.
The U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force participate in practice exercises at Okinawa in the Pacific Theater. Amphibious assault on a beach. Practice exercises of United States troops. Landing crafts advance towards the beach. Aircraft strafe the beach. Amphibious tanks (LCVTs) make initial assault. Marines and soldiers establish beach head. Specially equipped trucks lay road mats on the sandy beach. Mechanized equipment rolls on the road mat. A floating pier is put into operation. Tanks, amphibious DUKWs and troops advance inland. A helicopter evacuates the simulated wounded.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Air Defense exercises in Southern Europe. United States jet fighter aircraft Sabre Jet and Thunderjet aircraft participate in the exercise. A Republic F-84 thunderjet aircraft stands stationary on an airbase. A pilot seated in the cockpit. The plane taxis. Activities on the air base for preparation of the Air Defense exercises. A fuel tank advances towards the aircraft. Refueling of the aircraft. The pilot seated in the cockpit.
United States jet fighter aircraft F-100 Super Sabre and F-84 Thunderjet aircraft participate in air defense exercises in Southern Europe. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Air Defense exercises. An instructor briefs the pilots in a room. The pilots wear flight gear. Automobiles on the air base. The planes are inspected before the flight. The pilots seated in the cockpit. The pilots lower the aircraft canopies. A man fires a rifle. An officer looks through binoculars. Men seated in the control room. Planes in flight. A plane takes off. Several planes take off. Planes in flight in formation.
United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam to guard the area around Danang Air Base. The U.S. Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 7th Fleet land on a beach in South Vietnam. Ships advance towards the beach. Vietnamese soldiers stand on the beach with a rifle. An LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked) rolls onto the beach. U.S. Marines run on the beach. An LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized ) comes on the shore. The LVTP-5 driven on the beach. Marines run across the beach. Several marines lay against an embankment. Other marines stand on the beach. (Vietnam War period).
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