Colonel Archibald Percival Wavell (Rt. Hon. Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell) Commander of the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) is seen conversing with a Colonel of local German forces in Oppeln,Upper Silesia. (This is during the period when elements of the British Durham Light Infantry, the Black Watch and the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Leinsters, were serving, under the auspices of the Inter-Allied Commission of Government and plebiscite, as "peace keepers" to stop conflict between the Germans and Polish insurgents, in Upper Silesia.) Colonel Wavell is showing his counterpart a flexible spring mace, which the latter manipulates and examines. Behind them on a railroad siding are flat cars carrying Mark V tanks of Company B, 5th Battalion, British Tank Corps. Numbers: E18 and E17 appear on two tanks, respectively. Scene shifts to a checkpoint supported by soldiers of the Black Watch. A German officer checks credentials of a civilian leading a goat. He is permitted to pass and walks along smoking a pipe. A German lights the cigarette of a Black Watch soldier. German soldiers relax at edge of woods where they fly the Imperial flag of black, White, and red. A wagon load of German irregulars is pulled by a horse. They display the German flag. A team of horses pulls two caissons with irregulars riding on them.
U.S. Marines in Con Thien, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Marines advance across a field as they retrieve dead Marines. A Vietnamese soldier (interpreter) speaks to the Marines as a Marine holds a piece of paper. The Marines advance and set up a field phone. A Marine with bandaged left arm. Marine speaks over PRC-25 radio. A dead Marine lies next to him. The Marines milling about on a field. A damaged building in the background. A Marine examines a dead Marine. There appears to be a broken tread of a tank in the background. Two Marines with M-16 rifles wearing bullet proof vests move across the field as smoke rises in the background. They duck suddenly as they appear to be under fire.
Animated map shows movements of German forces Eastward toward Luzk and Lemberg in Belarus during the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the Soviet Union in World War 2. German soldiers work with shovels and wheelbarrow on muddy bank of a river.preparing to construct a pontoon bridge. Two small boats convey some soldiers across the river. German Army Engineers prepare for construction on both banks of the river. A road bed of wooden planks is being laid at one foot of the bridge Engineers crank cables to level the bridge bed. German soldiers stand guard over the construction site. An MG 34 machine gun sits on a tell tripod with a belt of ammunition ready for use if needed. On the river bank, soldiers carry timber planks to the construction site. View from the river of the bridge under construction. The workers and bridge are silhouetted against the light sky. A soldier wades below the bridge showing water only up to his knees. Next, a large shallow draft barge is seen bringing troops a\cross the river. A 5-wheel army truck, camouflaged with foliage and logs, climbs the river bank as it leaves the bridge. Scene shifts to German motorcycles and utility vehicle driving along a well established highway on their way to Lemberg, followed by armor. Closeup of a German Panzer III Ausf. N; with short barrel gun passing into the town of Luzk. It continues moving into the town away from the camera. Civilian refugees walking alongside the roadway as German army vehicles pass them. A destroyed building with a knocked out 1930s vintage Soviet BA-10 armored car in front of it. Hulk of a completely destroyed Soviet tank and a knocked out Soviet BT-7 tank nearby. German army trucks and other vehicles moving along a rutted dirt road. A German medium half track SdKfz 6/1 filled with troops. It displays a large white "K" identifying it as belonging to Panzergruppe Kleist. Some Panzer I Ausf A tanks armed with two 7.92 mm machine guns are seen moving along a dusty dirt road. Closeup of one passing near in cloud of dust. A group of German soldiers rest under a large tree. destroyed weapons litter the ground. Closeup of destroyed Soviet tank. Closeup of shell hole in a knocked out Soviet tank. A smoldering Soviet T-34 tank with dead Soviet soldier lying on ground in front of it. German soldier examines a Soviet tank turned on its side
Scenes of American people engaged in different occupations in the United States in the 1950s. African American surveyor looks through a survey transit instrument as they work on a construction project with Brooklyn Bridge of New York City in background. Men in suits examine blueprints at construction site of an interstate highway cloverleaf system. A man studies and works on the construction site of a bridge. Women nurses in a classroom take down notes. A redcap pulls baggage at a railway station. Men work on construction projects. Masons, carpenters work at construction site. Surgeons operate on patient in operating theater. Cowboys hold down a calf and brand it, A housewife prepares a meal. A man operates an automobile elevator parking lot and 1950's American automobiles are seen passing by his lift. A truck of the 'Sand and Gravel Corporation' at a construction site.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel visits with Mrs. Goebbels and her children, during a period between command assignments, during World War II. Rommel, standing with aides, in the garden of the Goebbels home in Schwanenwerder, Berlin, smiles as he watches the Goebbels children at play. Magda Goebbels, wife of Propaganda Minister Joseph Paul Goebbels, with her children gathered around a slide in the yard. Rommel watches as Magda helps her youngest daughter, Heidrun, down the slide using a wheeled board and help from another daughter. Field Marshal Rommel looks on and smiles. Rommel along with Magda, return to the house, holding hands with the children. Another view of the activities around the slide. Rommel examines the wheeled board with Mrs. Goebbels, who then helps Heidrun ride it down the slide. Marshal Rommel and Magda Goebbels hold hands with her daughters as they return along a path to the house.
Various aircraft during a commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy in the United States. A small one place airplane named 'Briggs Dart' in flight over a field during the reliability tour. The aircraft flies over the field and lands. The aircraft taxis after landing. Spectators examine the aircraft.
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