Republic of Vietnam Field exercises with simulated combat. Regional and Popular Forces (RF/PF) in defensive position at river bank fire M-60 machine gun. Soldier loads 40mm round into M-79 grenade launcher and fires it. Line of RF/PF firing M-16 rifles. RF/PF attack simulated Vietcong-occupied village. Explosions and fires in a couple of huts. Vietcong pretenders are searched and held as prisoners. (Vietnam War period).
Scenes of utter destruction from World War 2, in Germany. Wreckage and debris, destroyed neighborhoods, and fallen German soldiers. Surrendered German prisoners of war seen closeup and assembled in large group within confines of fenced field.
The Cuban Revolution against Batista in years 1957-1958. A Cuban Revolutionary writes a note to be taken across by Fidel Castro's courier. A soldier watches as a courier gets onto a horse and rides away. Refuge area for the rebels in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. A professional Communist from Argentina, Ernesto Che Guevara, joins Fidel Castro's men. He rides a horse as he smokes a cigarette and talks to another man. Soldiers clean and prepare arms and ammunition, they make bombs. Castro's rebels bomb buses and railroad trains. Charred cars and trucks. Buildings on fire from rebel guerrilla strikes. Oil tanks and factories set on fire by them. Black smoke arises from fires as firefighters try to put out fires. Men on horses cross a stream as they bring supplies. Castro talks to new recruits and pro-communists. Celia Sanchez, who was part of the Moncada Barracks attack, talks to a rebel. Che Guevara smokes a cigar as he inspects rockets. Soldiers ready the rocket. Soldiers sit and talk, climb uphill on foot and on horses. Soldiers inside a dimly lit camp. The rebels attack and fire. A rebel doctor operates upon a soldier in a make shift operating room. The rebels attack and fight police and Cuban military forces loyal to Batista. Soldiers fire in standing and prone positions. Soldiers walk down a path in the jungle. They gather around a man seated on the ground as he takes notes. Women rebels take pictures of prisoners for publicity purposes. A rebel with a camera. 1958: Batista's men search for Castro. Soldiers walk uphill and cross a stream. A soldier in a deserted village. People near wrecked buildings and houses. A woman soldier speaks into a microphone for the rebel radio. A man adjusts the knob of a portable transistor radio.
Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers present medal to Cuban soldiers in Cuba. A man takes pictures with a camera. Cuban soldier embraces the PLA official. Men shake hands. Cuban revolutionary soldiers at a camp talk, they have rifles with them. A straw hut behind them. One man with beard smokes cigar and handles rifle. Men march with Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria (INRA) banners calling for agrarian reform. Men march and wave knives. Oxes pull a wagon of prisoners. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro sits in an ornate wooden chair in a room with various marble busts. Cuban revolutionary Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez speaks at a microphone there with Castro seen on his left. Next scene shows Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez meeting Russian Prime Minister Nikita S. Khrushchev (location not confirmed). The two men shake hands and other officials accompany them.
A British Navy training program teaches the sailors methods to escort and disarm an enemy. A British Navy Officer and other sailors. Two sailors demonstrate to escort a prisoner. One of the sailors poses as the opponent. The other sailor points his gun at the opponent who turns back and starts moving forward. The sailor kicks him in the back and points his gun at the opponent who has fallen down on the ground. The sailor prods the opponent in the back with the gun. The opponent turns back and throws the sailor on the ground. The sailor points a pistol at the opponent's back and marches him forward. The sailor pokes into the back of the opponent with his pistol. The sailor points a knife towards the opponent and shoves him to get him moving. The sailor pricks the opponent in the back with the knife. The opponent turns back. The sailor attacks the opponent from behind with a weapon in his hand. The opponent points a gun, a pistol and a knife one by one at the sailor. In each case the sailor swings around, hits the weapon with his hand, hits the opponent and makes him fall to the ground. Two rows of sailors practice the moves. (World War II period).
Axis Forces collapse in Tunisia, North Africa during the World War II. British General Montgomery reviews Australian and New Zealand troops. Tanks and infantry of the British 8th Army move forward. A man looks through a pair of binoculars. A map. Aircraft of the British and American Allied Forces drop bombs on Axis positions. Allied tanks. Ground views of Allied artillery fired at night with bright flashes and explosions on March 20, 1943. British soldiers fire artillery. Rubble everywhere. Soldiers of Indian Division advance during battle. U.S. Army troops enter Sened and U.S. tanks advance through Maknassy. British and American generals view battlefield, including U.S. Army General Patton. British armor advances. 8000 German soldier Prisoners of War led away Mareth line collapses on March 28. Allied tanks and troops pass abandoned and destroyed German equipment. British royal engineers repair roads damaged by retreating German army. Allied Forces planes in flight. Navy ships. War equipment and supplies are loaded onto a ship deck. U.S. tanks and infantry. A warm reception of the victorious commanders. British fleet shells the coast. An Axis plane shot down. General Montgomery and Free French officers cheered by Moslems in Tunisia. General Montgomery lays a wreath during a ceremony. Small group of American soldiers looking to join up with their larger unit greet a group of Gurkha soldiers from Nepal (British Indian Army) on their way.
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