U.S. Army Special Forces operating near Ba Me Ga west of Ban Me Thout, Vietnam. A Special Forces Mobile Strike Force (Mike Force) soldier slits open a Vietcong rice bag. The team encounters a dying Vietcong soldier in brush. Mike Force member searches the VC's body for documents. Information about Vietcong anti-tank mines and tax collection documents are reportedly found on the VC. ( Note: It has also been reported that some elements of the Mike Force unit drove over an uncharted anti tank mine on the way back to base, after the mission, killing and wounding members of Special Forces, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, and Montagnard strike force troopers.)
International Military Games under auspices of CISM (Conceil International Du Sports Militaire). View from a moving bus as it proceeds along an autobahn (highway) in Munich, Germany. About a dozen bluish colored flags are seen grouped in the space between the highway lanes. The view shifts to inside the bus, filled with military athletes in civilian clothes headed to the military olympics. The scenery outside is pleasant, with many green spaces and occasional housing units. The bus approaches a built-up area where another cluster of bluish flags is seen. The Olympiaturm (Olympic tower) marking the Olympiapark for the 1972 Olympic Summer Games, is seen out the bus window. (Note: those games will commence right after the CISM military games.)
Officials confer during World War II. Allied war material stacked on a port in England, including U.S. tanks, trailers, razor wire, fencing, and trucks in preparation for invasion of Europe in 1944. American and British soldiers work and load the supplies for their shipment to the war front. U.S. soldiers unload at a beach site. British Army soldiers roll a covered artillery piece . It has a chalk handwritten label on the gun barrel that says, "Slim's Deadly Poison" and an image of skull and cross bones. Laborers building a German fortification in coastal France. German General viewing English Channel from coastal fortification along the Atlantic Wall. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini confer in a meeting. The officials discuss strategies for the war over a large map. Newspapers with English headlines speculating about the coming Allied invasion. George Marshall and other Allied officers of the War Council of the united nations assembled at a large conference table and in discussion for the Invasion of Europe (D-Day invasion of France).
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A large crowd gathers on a street to greet the King and the Queen. Bakers standing near a table. A cake on the table. The King and the Queen come outside a building. A large crowd cheer and wave towards them. People standing near the cake. Aerial view of the large crowd on the street. A war memorial at Connaught Square dedicated to the soldiers who died in World War II. The dignitaries place a wreath on the memorial.
The King's Plate turf classic held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. People gather in a large number on the ground. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom arrive to watch the championship. Dignitaries arrive in a royal carriage. A large crowd greets them. The King and the Queen seated in the grandstands. The race starts. Jockeys riding their horses on the race track. People watching the race. The winner is awarded by dignitaries. The King and the Queen seated in the royal carriage. After the event they leave the area.
View from a high point above, as the submarine, USS Nautilus, glides toward a wharf at Pearl Harbor,as it returns from the Makin Raid of World War 2. The wharf is crowded with a military honor guard, reception committee and host of well-wishers. Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson, USMC, Commander, Second Raider Battalion, and members of his unit are standing on deck. Scene shifts to post-docking, and Admiral Chester Nimitz is seen standing with Carlson's raiders on the deck, as other senior officers walk past Colonel Carlson, offering their congratulations on the success of the Makin Raid. Then as Admiral Nimitz speaks with Carlson, on of the senior officers shows him some Japanese war trophies the Raiders brought back with them. Nimitz holds a Samurai sword by the handle and discusses it with a young Raider officer standing next to him.
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