Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes Commander of United States 52nd Aviation Company in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Colonel Hughes walks with Special Forces soldiers. He greets children in a village. A child holds a cross bow. Colonel and a Vietnamese man smoke a cigar. Montagnards watch as Lieutenant Colonel smokes the cigar. Colonel lights the cigar of a dwarf woman as she carries a bundle of wood on her back. He poses with two dwarf women carrying bundles of wood on their backs. A boy holds a cross bow.
Views of jungle terrain in Vietnam. Aerial views of pick up point . A stream passing through the jungle. Smoke puffs emerges from hills in the jungle. A patch of grass starts to burn. United States Army UH-1B helicopter in flight. Aerial views of the jungle terrain with a river and a valley. An aircraft in flight. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army 5th Special Forces in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A soldier of 5th Special Forces group speaks over a hand radio. Jarai Montagnard and South Vietnamese Special Forces troops walk down a dirt track after having completed a mission. Troops board a truck to drive for Duc Co Camp. The truck drives off.
Dedication ceremony of the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. Former President of United States Harry S. Truman at the dedication ceremony of the library. Dignitaries including Chief Justice Earl Warren, Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Bess Truman, and Eleanor Roosevelt at the ceremony. Ten thousand people gather for the Masonic rites of dedication. Republican Senate leader William Fife Knowland receives a deed on behalf of the government. Interiors of the library that houses 3 ½ million documents of Truman's seven-year term. At the Truman Museum pictures of Truman with former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Another picture of Truman after winning the presidential election of 1944.
A joint amphibious training of the United States Army and the Navy at Woolacombe Beach in Devon, England during World War II. A Landing Craft Mechanized ( LCM ) comes onto the beach. A U.S. Army Sherman tank unloads from the LCM. An explosion occurs in the foreground. Smoke billows up due to the explosion. An LCM loaded with SHS (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) troops approaches the beach. The ramp of the LCM being lowered and the troops get off. Soldiers wade through water to reach the shore. A jeep passes on the beach.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. General Joseph McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff at a desk as he outlines the importance of June 6, 1944 the day Allied forces attacked the Germans in Normandy. He speaks about the decision to knock down the Nazis first and then the Japanese during the World War. He says that the invasion of Normandy was planned in November 1943. He also states how General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, planned and executed the invasion. He also speaks about how the U.S. Army Air Forces and the Royal Air Forces aircraft bombarded the coasts of Normandy prior to the D Day invasion. Past events show American soldiers getting onto landing crafts in England as they leave for the invasion. The soldiers aboard the ships in the English Channel. The soldiers read the Bible and comics, sleep and cook aboard the ships. On June 5th , 1944 the ships head towards Normandy for the invasion. In England gliders carrying paratroopers take off from an airfield to bombard the German positions in Normandy. British soldiers receive ration and work on motorbikes. TNT (trinitrotoluene) charges being prepared by soldiers tasked with demolition duties. British soldiers check their guns and other weapons prior to the invasion. Jeep and artillery being loaded onto aircraft.
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