Japanese kamikaze suicide pilot divers attack hospital ship USS Comfort (AH-6), during action off Okinawa, Japan. Damaged USS Comfort. A sign : 'U.S. Navy ship, USS Comfort'. Wounded nurses and casualties are carried and transfered to a van. Burial services are held at a military cemetery on Guam: coffins draped with the flags of the United States are carried to the cemetery. The nurses who treated the casualties shown mourning. The flag draped coffins. Graves of the Americans and the flag of the United States at the Guam cemetery. (World War II period).
The Iwo Jima flag 7th War Loan drive in Washington DC during World War II. The 7th War Loan drive is underway. Famed Iwo Jima flag raising survivors and heroes, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes stand together outside the U.S. Capitol. Guards stand at attention. Gagnon, Bradley and Hayes raise a flag of the Unites States above the U.S. Capitol to kick off the load drive. The military personnel salute the flag. The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., speaks telling American people of the urgency of buying war bonds.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt visits the Tuskegee Institute (1200 W Montgomery Rd, Tuskegee, AL 36088, United States) of Tuskegee, Alabama. A motorcade of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor Frank M. Dixon and his official staff arrives at the Tuskegee Institute. Crowds of African American students welcome President Roosevelt. A choir of the institute sings. President Roosevelt seated in a car. He listens to a song. He puts on his cap. A group of school cadets sings a song for him. The President delivers a speech about the institution's achievements from the car. The students, the faculty and other school members applaud after his speech. The President is greeted by the school members. President Roosevelt leaves the institute.
United States soldiers blow up caves holding Japanese soldiers in Baguio, Philippines during World War II. Explosions in a cave targeting the Japanese soldiers. United States soldiers assist civilians who are returning to the city from the hills. A soldier carries a small baby in his arms. Another soldier leads an elderly Filipino man along a road. Soldiers and civilians climb up a cliff. Filipino soldiers carry a woman on a bedspring through hilly terrain toward U.S. lines. Filipino woman lying on rattan bedspring. The soldiers stand in some wood. Soldiers distribute chocolate bars to civilians as they rest.
Activities of United States Army 1st Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. Dead American soldiers being carried off on makeshift litters. Other soldiers are on the alert. Lieutenant Colonel James H. Nix, Commander 2nd Battalions, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade (United States), check the dead soldiers. Dead African American U.S. Army soldier in a jungle. Two soldiers arrive, place the dead soldier on litter and carry the body off. Soldiers rush toward a jungle. View of jungle area.
Activities of United States1st Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. The U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook is directed to landing. Soldiers of the 2d Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade (United States), load a 105mm Howitzer into the CH-47.
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