U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits South Vietnam. Exteriors of a government building show Nixon and U.S. Army Lieutenant General John W. O'Daniel standing with Vietnamese officials in white suits. Civilians gathered holding banners. A large parade of South Vietnamese military units takes place, led by a marching band. Nixon stands with President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem. Vice-President Nixon makes a brief statement into the microphone. He is followed by Colonel Nguyen Van Y, who also makes brief remarks. President Diem and Vice-President Nixon stand together and are joined by U.S. Ambassador Fritz Nolting. Crowd applauds and photographers take pictures from steps of the building.
U.S. 35th air policemen parked outside U.S. Army FEAF (Far East Air Forces) headquarters in Tokyo. American soldiers emerge from the FEAF headquarters building and line up with their gear on sidewalk across the street. It is raining. An officer reads orders to the soldiers and they get into a truck. An air police jeep backs up. The jeep and the truck pull away. View of top of the building, from which the United Nations and U.S. flags fly.
Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower visits American troops in Normandy, France on 3rd July, 1944 during World War II. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar Bradley walks with Eisenhower. They tour units and division commands. Eisenhower meets U.S. Army General Joseph Lawton Collins on a field. U.S. soldiers load shells and fire artillery on 4th of July. U.S. Independence Day is celebrated in a French town and children sing 'America'.
A military film report on the advance of members of U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders towards Myitkyina, Burma and its capture during World War II. Burmese nurses treat wounded members of Merrill's Marauders. U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel (Dr.) Gordon Seagrave operates on a patient at a field hospital. Japanese prisoners of war (POW) are being questioned by U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Detachment 101 trained personnel who are Japanese-Americans. Japanese prisoners eat.
U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell confers with Frank Merrill, Commander-General of U.S. 5307th Composite Unit (nicknamed Merrill's Marauders) in Burma during World War II. Merrill and Stilwell walk along a field and talk. Gliders parked on a field. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop parachute supplies. A U.S. Army Air Force light aircraft taxis for a take off from a jungle strip.
Frank Merrill Commander-General of U.S. 5307th Composite Unit ( nicknamed Merrill's Marauders) aboard an aircraft in flight over Burma during World War II. Interiors of the airborne aircraft show General Merrill. Merrill's Marauders stand at the doorway of the aircraft. Men prepare to drop parachute supplies.
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