Bomb handled aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. Ordnance men wheel Snakeye bombs. RA-5A aircraft parked in the background. Auxiliary power unit (APU) parked by aircraft. Aviation Ordnance men walk on flight deck. Snakeye bombs wheeled. A-4C aircraft spotted by a tractor. Aviation Ordnance men wheel Snakeye bombs on a cart. Pylon contains a bomb. A bomb cart wheeled under wing. A large rod is screwed in nose of bomb. Snakeye bombs attached to bomb. Steel rod is then unscrewed. Aviation Ordnance men use tools in tightening nuts on bombs. A fuse is screwed. Missile men wheel bomb cart carrying Sidewinder Missiles. A-4C aircraft loaded with bombs. A-4C aircraft stand in rows on the deck.
A funeral procession in France during World War I. American soldiers and cavalry units march in a funeral procession. A cart with a casket wrapped in an American flag loaded onto it. Men move out of a building carrying the casket followed by officers as they hold their caps to their hearts. American soldiers lined up at a cemetery as rifles are fired. A soldier blows a trumpet. The casket being lowered in a grave. Men unload the casket wrapped in an American flag from a cart. A wreath placed on the grave. Soldiers and a cart carry the casket in the funeral procession.
A funeral procession in France during World War I. American soldiers and cavalry units march in a funeral procession. A cart with a casket wrapped in an American flag loaded onto it. Men move out of a walled gate carrying the casket followed by officers as they hold their caps to their hearts. A woman stands at the side of the walled gate.
Injured Allied soldiers in France during World War I. Allied soldiers and cavalry units in a field. A truck and a horse drawn carriage in the background. Medics unload a litter from a medical van. U.S. Army officers outside a building as a U.S. Army car arrives and they get into the car. A soldier looks at a map and then speaks over the phone. View outside field hospital with trucks and carriages in the foreground. A sign reads "Dressing room 101 Ambulance Company." Wounded soldiers on litters being carried into the dressing room.
Unter den Linden in Berlin, Germany after the end of World War 1. German people angry about the Treaty of Versailles, gathering in protest on Unter den Linden, in Berlin. A poster on a wall lambasting the Allies (British and French, in particular) for the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, especially Article 228 giving the Allies authority to prosecute Germans accused of violating the laws and customs of war. Complete break and change of scene to France. Small unit of French troops, led by officer on a white horse, marching on street in Paris. Closeup of French General Marie-Eugene Debeney, Commandant la place de Paris, as he watches the troops assemble in formation with the officer on white horse, in center, across the street from where he stands . Several Renault FT light tanks parked on pavement next to a building.
U.S. Project Combat Trap/Commando Vault using outsized bombs to create helicopter landing zones in the jungle, during the war in Vietnam. (At first, the project used 10,000 pound World War II M121 bombs. In 1970, it switched to the 15,000 pound BLU-82/B bomb, also called a "Daisy Cutter".) View from another aircraft, of a C-130 aircraft in flight overhead. View inside the cargo compartment of the C-130 flying , with its rear cargo door open, above a layer of clouds. A parachute trails behind the aircraft, attached to a large pallet on which a BLU-82/B (Bomb Live Unit-82) is fastened. The load is released and the parachute pulls the pallet and bomb out of the plane. Scene reverts to the view of the C-130 from another aircraft. The parachute and bomb are seen falling from the C-130. Camera follows them as they fall through the cloud layer. Next, a huge ball of fire is seen in the jungle below. Dense gray smoke billows upward. Scene shifts to view from a helicopter flying closer to the ground, which is obscured by dense tree canopy below. View of the explosion site shows depression in the jungle canopy, but the helicopter doesn't get close enough to reveal more.
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