Review of conflicts involving U.S. from World War 2 to 1970. A U.S. soldier with rifle and binoculars, on guard. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany to mass audience. German mobilization and blitzkrieg. U.S. troops firing small arms on island in Pacific, battling Japanese. U.S. soldiers on half-track firing artillery. Explosive destruction of Nazi swastika and Eagle symbol on top of building in Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany. General Douglas MacArthur stands as Japanese General signs surrender documents aboard USS Missouri, ending World War II. Times Square in New York City on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marking end of World War 2. American troops firing artillery and small arms in Korean War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the United Nations. Newspaper headlines about postwar Berlin Crisis. Soviet missiles on display in military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov and Nikita Khrushchev, at Kremlin, reviewing the parade. Cuban President Fidel Castro giving a speech. A newspaper headline reading: "Khrushchev orders removal of missiles" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet cargo ship with covered missiles on its deck. Red flag with image of Lenin and message: 'Partido Communista Dominicano' and a crowd chanting support for the Communist party in the Dominican Republic. Communist Chinese people marching with massed flags in the People’s Republic of China. Chairman Mao Zedong waving to a crowd of young supporters and Red Guards in China as they chant. A United States soldier in South Vietnam during Vietnam War looks through binoculars and then walks carrying his M-16 rifle. A map of Vietnam.
Vietnam tour by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard . U.S. Vice Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam talks with Captain Faulk of the U.S. Navy. They await the arrival of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard at Binh Thuy Air Base. Rear Admiral W. R. Flanagan, Deputy Commander Naval Forces, Republic of Vietnam talks with Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations,Vietnamese Navy. Rear Admiral W R Flanagan in military clothes. Aide of Commodore Chon stands in the background. W. R. Flanagan, Commodore Chon and an unidentified Republic of Vietnam officer stand. Commodore Chon chats with Captain Faulk, W. R. Flanagan and Elmo Russell Zumwalt while waiting for Mr. Packard. David Packard arrives. He gets off a car. The welcoming committee moves towards the car to greet Mr Packard. Zumwalt, Chon and others welcomes Mr Packard. An unidentified man shakes hands with Mr Packard in the foreground. Aircraft parked in the background. Republic of Vietnam police in a jeep. A motorcade prepares to start up.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard on a tour of Vietnam. The official party arrives at the Naval Support Activity, Saigon. Binh Thuy Air Base administration building in the background. David Packard gets out of a car. He walks towards a U.S. Army UH-1H helicopter for flight to Cantho, Republic of Vietnam. The helicopter warms up. U.S. Vice Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam gives a thumps up. An army officer boards the helicopter. It is ready for lift off. The plane director gives a signal for the lift off. The helicopter lifts off. Dignitaries stand in rain next to the helicopter at Cantho. Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations;Vietnamese Navy , in a rain coat. Mr Packard walks through the rain. Commodore Chon greets him. Mr Packard enters a car. He walks away from the car and moves into a building. Mr Packard and the party enters a small building. He gets into carry all. He leaves the doorway of the small building. He walks through mud and a sailor holds an umbrella over his head. He enters a small building and chats with unidentified naval officers. Mr Packard shakes hands with Vietnamese and other officers and prepares to leave from Ben Luc. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard on a tour of Vietnam. David Packard walks at a naval shipyard in Saigon. Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations ;Vietnamese Navy, walks with Mr Packard. U.S. Vice Admiral E. R. Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam and Mr. Packard look at Ferro cement boats that were built by Vietnamese at Vietnamee Naval shipyard. Mr Packard looks at the boats from the edge of the dock. Commodore Chon in the background. Mr.Packard chats with E. R. Zumwalt and they enter a car. The official party looks at some of the ribs of one of the boats under construction. Mr. Packard signs a log book. E. R. Zumwalt stands in the background in a building at the shipyard. Mr Packard is introduced to an officer of the Republic of Vietnam. The official party walks at the shipyard. Mr Packard talks with B Donohue, Director of Small Boat School, Saigon. The party in one of the rooms at the boat school. The party departs from the school. A young Vietnamese girl runs through a hall at the school.
Vietnam tour by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, David Packard. Mr.Packard enters the Vietnamese Naval shipyard, Saigon. A motorcade seen. Vietnamese personnel in the background. Cars enter a gate. Mr Packard meets Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations,Vietnamese Navy and Captain Bich, Commander of Republic of Vietnam Naval shipyard. Mr Packard meets with several Vietnamese officers. Mr Packard ; U.S. Vice Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam and Commodore Chon look at the map of the shipyard. Mr Packard enters a car. The car moves. Republic of Vietnam military police in a jeep. The official party departs the shipyard.
Operation Seafloat in the Cua Lon River, Vietnam. A mobile base in the river. American and South Vietnamese flags on the mobile base. A large field with the mobile base. A part of ATC seen nearby. Village rubble along the water edge. A guard on duty near the destroyed village. A barge complex (mobile base) in the background. The barge complex in the mid river. A large sampan underway in the river. South Vietnam flags seen on sampans. The sampan is tied to the barge complex. Other boats approach. Vietnamese in sampans alongside the barge. Republic of Vietnam personnel from the barge checks people and sampans. Two women on the sampan tied to the barge. Two men on the barge. Sampans in the background. Two USN (United States Navy) men work on a 50 caliber machine gun on a barge. The sampan pulls away from the side of the barge.