1st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Delaware. A Shau Valley filled with smoke and pockmarked with craters all over. April 1968.
U.S. soldier interrogate native through native interpreter. American soldiers briefed in front of a map. Soldiers leave after briefing. American soldier fires .45 car pistol into the air. Natives step up to table and questioned by another native. Native marks the document. Natives search a prisoner outside a big hut. They pull a Vietnamese man out of the hut and forcibly bind his hands behind his back.
Staged scenes in lounge of zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ 129) while moored at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey. A man seated and woman at piano. Close view of woman playing piano and two men relaxing in chairs. Man walks down promenade toward camera and looks out of the airship's observation windows.
Flight training at Naval Air Station Chase Field in Texas. Aircraft T-2Cs landing on runway. Aircraft TA-4Js parked outside hangar in background. TA-4J makes a touch-and-go landing where it takes off without stopping after landing. TA-4J in flight over runway. TA-4J overhead after taking off from runway. T-2C making touch-and-go landings. TA-4J making touch-and-go landings. TA-4J in flight. Two T-2Cs taking off from runway. Landing gears of T-2Cs folded after taking off.
Germany about a month before the end of World War 2 in Europe. A crash landed United States Army Air Force Republic P-47D Thunderbolt aircraft, nicknamed "Mom's Irish Mick." It was assigned to the 404th Fighter Squadron, 371st fighter Group, and crash landed on Advanced Landing Ground Y-74 Frankfurt/Eschborn that had been seized by advancing U.S. forces, in 1945. The aircraft carries tail number 44-33253 and was piloted by Charles T. Martin III. Officers retrieve ammunition from the wing gun. Crane brought in to lift the fighter plane also known as the Jug. Crane pulls the P-47 off field. The hulk of a Gotha 242 transport glider stands next to the American flag at half mast with air field tents in the background. A formation of P-47s flies over the flag. Four P-47s buzz and pull up with the flag in foreground. P-47s flying in 'V' formation with American flag in foreground and officers on the ground. Four P-47s circle for landing. A North American T-6 Texan training plane, a.k.a. Harvard, with occupants in both cockpits, taking off and pulling up.
Major General James Doolittle and Lt. General Carl Spaatz of the United States Twelfth Air Force, Colonel Willis, as well as French Major-General Bergeret and other American and French officers attend ceremonies at the presentation of Curtiss P-40 Warhawk planes by the U.S. Army Air Forces to the French Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco during World War II. American troops parade before a hangar. Officers stand in front of P-40 planes lined up near the hangar. The band plays in the parade. French Moroccan horsemen. Officers salute the American and French flags. Opening cameraman slate indicates January 9, 1942, but this is an error as the event took place on January 9, 1943.
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