UN air and ground forces advance in Korea. Black smoke from explosion on hills. UN planes in flight over Korean hills. Planes drop combs over enemy North Korean installations. Machine gun fire from an aircraft. An enemy fighter is hit and downed by a UN plane. The hit plane goes out of control and descends to the ground.
The Cruise of the Whaler Herman by Dr. L Lawrence and RE Hasbrook. A depiction of life aboard a whaler on a trip to the Arctic. The whaler Herman at the San Francisco docks. Crew readies the whaler and prepares to leave. A man stands near camera equipment and waves goodbye to the crew. Men on the pier. The San Francisco skyline as the whaler leaves the docks. Crew fishing aboard the ship. They arrive at Unalaska. Houses and an old church. Native children. Crew prepares its harpoon rope tubs. The whaler at the Dutch harbor. A steamer at the dock. Coal brought in wheel barrows on tracks. Men work with shovels. The whales departs for the North.
U.S. Navy officers and sailors aboard a landing craft still at port in England, pose with chart of their destination in Normandy, France, during World War 2. They all raise their caps for the cameraman. U.S. troops fill deck of a large landing craft infantry (film reversed). Views of other landing craft underway. U.S. troops standing aft on a ship. View of a destroyer escort ship. Landing craft underway in moonlight. Barrage balloon visible overhead. A camouflaged Benham class destroyer passing abeam the camera ship. More views of landing craft and barrage balloons. Officer aboard ship using a telescope. A Destroyer escort and another view of the Benham class destroyer. (These color sequences are reversed) Black and White sequence 02:36 to 03:39 shows members of the Canadian North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment approaching and landing on D-day, at La Rive Plage,Bernieres-sur-Mer, France. Scenes are interposed with some of U.S. troops wading ashore at Omaha Beach. At time code 03:40, Troops of the U.S. Army First Division, the "Big Red One," are seen wading ashore on Omaha beach, from Higgins boats of the transport ship, USS Samuel Chase. (APA-26). U.S. soldiers reaching the beach from the surf, as two fall to German gunfire.
Soldier of 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army lays out ammunition from captured North Vietnamese weapons cache on the ground. A box of ammunition on the ground. A U.S. soldier kneels beside it and takes out ammunition from the box. Fuses for 60mm mortar. 92mm rounds. 60mm, 120mm and SKS rounds. l20mm mortar fuse. Soldier takes 60mm mortar rounds from box. Soldier takes rifle slings from box. Open magazine of .51 cal ammo.
Soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army seize a North Vietnamese weapons cache in Cambodia. Soldier digs up 60 mm mortar booby trap. Troops removing dirt covering and roof from ammo bunker. Close view of B40 rockets. Soldiers in chain fashion pass ammunition crates. They load the crates on M-274 mechanical mule.
View from a U.S. Marine bunker as enemy shell explodes nearby, during the siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The United States Marines in the Battle of Khe Sanh firing mortars and a 105mm howitzer from their bunker. Enemy shells exploding on the tarmac, where American Air Force C-130 aircraft are parked. Marines rushing wounded comrades on stretchers, to C-130s for evacuation. Scene shifts to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel James P. Sheehan, standing at Camp Pendleton, California. (He was a company commander in the siege at Khe Sanh.) As he describes the C-130 aircraft support operations, a contingent of marines marches past, behind him. Scene shifts to a civilian narrator standing in the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Center at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Among other things, he describes MAC support to the Tactical Air Command in Korea. Camera focuses on MAC air routes in the vicinity of the Philippines, Japan, and Korea. Next, is seen view of airfield at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, briefly at sunset, and then at night, as pilots of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing and their F-111 aircraft prepare to depart for Korea, in response to border tensions, in August, 1976, after North Korean forces killed two American officers ("Korean Axe Murder Incident" and resulting "Operation Paul Bunyan"). Ground crewman directs a taxiing F-111 using lighted wands. The F-111s takes off. One of them is seen landing after the 7 thousand mile flight to Korea, as Major Paul Malandrino,Jr. (unseen) of the 366th Wing, speaks about MAC's airlift support. A C-141 MAC aircraft is seen landing. View of a C-141 with tail doors open and its cargo of military equipment on the ramp behind it. Glimpse of a marine with rifle and earphones, guarding equipment on the airfield ramp. Closeups of F-111 aircraft taking off.
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