Wendell Willkie addressing people in Coffeyville, Kansas. Large crowd gathers to hear the speech of Willkie. Willkie stands at the podium and addresses people. Crowd applaud and cheer. The GOP candidate attacks Roosevelt's administration in a dynamic speech. Willkie says that Franklin Roosevelt has lost faith in the American people. He states that the men surrounding Roosevelt are all cynics who scoff at simple virtues of the midwestern people. He says they think that the people are too dumb to understand, and that they think they can govern with catch phrases and sleight of hand. (World War II period).
U.S. Marines in action in the Northern Provinces of South Vietnam, near the DMZ. They are seen in full combat gear, carrying small arms, including recoilless weapons, as they move across green fields where smoke is rising. Next, they are seen spread out and moving across muddy rice paddies. A U.S.jet fighter streaks across a shoreline at low altitude. Views from a Marine jet fighter bomber dropping bombs on Viet Cong targets from low altitude. Explosions on the ground are seen from behind the aircraft as it passes. Brief view from ground of bomb striking and black smoke rising. Closeup (in 1969) of two McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms from U.S. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 (with Red devil insignia on their tails) flying in tight formation. View of pilot in front cockpit an F-4. Aerial view from below of the pair of F-4s. Closeup view from below, as an F-4 releases ordnance in flight. A huge explosion fills the screen as film title slate appeared reading: "Counterpunch." (narrated by Jack Webb). Sign at Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California, is shown. Marine sentry at entrance checks identifications of persons arriving at the gatehouse. Marines seen firing mortars, during training. A C-47 transport airplane airdrops supplies to Marines on the ground. Marines in jeeps drive across sand where a bulldozer is working on an airfield under construction. Front view glimpse of a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk aircraft taking off. A pair of Marine Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters in flight. Group of U.S. Marine Corps officers looking over a model of terrain while being briefed by a Lieutenant Colonel during training "Operation Alligator Hide" in 1967, at the White Beach Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California. Closeup of the detailed mockup of the terrain. Another officer briefs about the use of F-4 and A-4 aircraft support prior to a helicopter assault. Bombs exploding near a bridge. Marines using small 4-wheeled self-propelled open vehicles as they move along a hillside during the exercise. A Captain at a field command post states he will mark a target with white phosphorus (Willy Pete). A tank is seen maneuvering. Pilot is seen responding from cockpit of an A-4 Skyhawk aircraft. An M48A3 Medium Tank is seen on the ground and two F-4s of Squadron 232 in the air. The tank crew fires a white phosphorus round into the hillside, where it generates white smoke. An F-4 is seen flying low toward the area and a bomb explodes on the marked target. Amphibious training is seen, with Marines charging a beach from a landing craft; a tank wading ashore; Marines hit the beach from an LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Personnel); Fighter bomber dropping a bomb from offshore; glimpse of Douglas A-4 Skyhawk.
The Macagua Dam, (also known as the Antonio José de Sucre) during construction onthe Caroní River in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar State, Venezuela. A waterfall in the region. The hydroelectric dam under construction in Venezuela. River flowing through jungle region. Infrastructure at the dam site. Large earth moving trucks carrying loads of dirt away during excavation. A man stands at the construction site. Men at work building the dam. A man welds a part of a machine.
India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru being welcomed by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Washington DC. U.S. Secretary of Defense Johnson confers with President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of States Dean Acheson and other men. PM Nehru gets off from an air plane. Photographers take photographs of Nehru and other dignitaries. President Truman on speaker stand with mikes as he welcomes Prime Minister Nehru and invites him to make his speech. Nehru makes a speech and talks about east and west coming together. He opes that together they will work for betterment of humanity. Truman and Nehru shakes hands, pose and go off the platform.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) members speak and protest the ending of prohibition, in Washington D.C. Women members pose. One of the member states that she won't drink and that she will do everything to stop others from drinking alcohol. Another member prays and says that she wishes prohibition would come back. All of them say Amen three times.
First air drop test of a thermonuclear weapon. The Hydrogen bomb nuclear weapon was dropped from a USAF B-52 bomber (not seen) that flew from Fred Island, Eniwetak (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok), on May 21, 1956. View appears to be from an aircraft flying above altocumulus clouds, below higher stratiform layers. The film begins with a complete whiteout from the initial fireball. As that subsides, local stratiform clouds take on a rosy hue and the center fireball is seen rising above them. As the fireball rises, it takes on a somewhat hemispherical shape, flat on the bottom, from which a straight stem-like column extends toward the ground. The light of the explosion slowly fades and complete darkness ensues. Official accounts state that the intended ground zero was directly over Namu Island, but the flight crew mistook an observation facility on a different island for their targeting beacon with the result that the weapon delivery was grossly in error. The bomb detonated some 4 miles off target over the ocean northeast of Namu. As a result essentially all of the weapons effects data was lost. ( Note: According to ancillary reports, the delivery error resulted in blast overpressures and thermal effects on the 6 structural response targets between Iroij and Namu Islands, greatly exceeding specifications for any use in scientific military modeling of high yield aerial detonations. Plans for graded damages analysis failed when all the structures collapsed. Effects cameras also failed from the intense fireball heat.)
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