United States Military lands at Aleutian Islands in Alaska to prepare a new base for its bombers to bomb Japanese positions, during World War II. U.S. soldiers in ships, boats and landing tractors land on the Aleutians. Soldiers unload materials from the boats. Soldiers try and put up tents fighting chill winds. General Lloyd E. Jones, in charge of the operation. Soldiers from a post watch the sea.
Post of the United States Military in Vietnam during Vietnam War. A sandbagged look up tower and a helicopter landing area nearside. Barracks and aprons for helicopters. Building material stacked in ground near the tower. A UH-1B helicopter approaches and lands over parking area. Two helicopters parked in the area. "Navy" painted on fuselage of the helicopter. Mini guns and rocket pods on port side of a helicopter. M-60 machine gun and cartridge roll loaded and inside the helicopter. Control levers and indicators in its empty cockpit.
Post of the United States Military in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Tow mechanics work on top of a UH-1B helicopter around the rotor. Two men work on main rotor of another UH-1B. Mechanic greases various areas around the rotor. A crewman works with machine gun M-60 on port side of the helicopter. Another crewman carries two other machine guns. They check the machine gun and rocket pod on the port side. Mechanics work on exposed engine and rotor. Mechanics work on after part around the rotor.
Post of the United States Military in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Door gunner seated in a UH-1B helicopter looks at the Mekong delta area. The winding river and its tributaries all over the delta. Very large winding river spreads into three legs. Pilot operates the controls inside the helicopter cockpit.
Andes airlift in Chiloya and Bella Vista in Peru. C-130A cargo airplanes of the United States Air Force airlift road construction equipment from Chiloya. Plane lands on a remote landing strip in jungle. CCT servicemen direct the plane. Natives walk out and watch heavy equipment unloaded from the cargo plane.
C-130A cargo airplanes of the United States Air Force airlift road construction equipment from Chiloya to Bella Vista village in Peru. Peruvian personnel stand near parked planes and watch. A dump truck filled with fifty five gallon drums offloads from one of the cargo planes. Another plane taxied on runway. Construction material near runway at Chiloya.
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