U.S. soldiers crowd on the deck of an LST crossing the English Channel en route to Normandy France on D-day, in World War 2.. A photographer in the background takes their pictures. Lieutenant Colonel John H. Livingston,of the 834th Engineer Aviation Battalion, refers to a map as he briefs members under his command about their mission. Army chaplain, Captain George Russell Barber, conducts an informal religious service for troops.
Japanese battleship Nagato underway on a river in Japan during World War II. Many small picket boats and riverboats tied along a dock. A Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel underway and the American flag flying. U.S. troops on the LCVP talk and point at a particular place. Japanese battleship Nagato underway. An unfinished hull being towed down the river by three tugs. A close up of Japanese battleship.
U.S. soldiers claim baggage and leave an airfield in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Military passengers assemble on the airfield. An aircraft parked at the field. They walk to a terminal building. A sign on a board reads 'Det 5 8 Aerial Port, Passenger Processing'. A group claims their baggage. The soldiers load barracks bags into trailer trucks. Buses leave the airfield. The bags of the soldiers lying on the ground.
Vehicles move on a new road from Bien Hoa to Saigon, in Vietnam. This highway was the main link between the main military airbase at Bien Hoa, and the capital, Saigon. Cars, an auto rickshaw and a van drive past on the road. A puddle of water alongside the road.Travelers ride motorbikes. Trees in the foreground. Heading towards Saigon from Bien Hoa, the South Vietnamese National Military cemetery (equivalent to U.S.Arlington cemetery) is visible, on the right hand side.
Film opens showing a bubbling stream at the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Scene shifts to cars parked by tents at a camping area. One of the cars is a red 1962 Kaiser Jeep Wagoneer, with a canoe on its roof. Camera moves past the car to family with children in front of their camping tent, and continues toward woods, and back again. View of blue early 1960s Buick sedan parked at a car-camping campsite adjoining the first one. Occupants are preparing a meal at their table on tent platform. Next, light color early 1960s Dodge sedan automobile is seen with a U-Haul trailer behind it. Camera passed it and occupants of the campsite at their picnic table. Finally, the blue Buick is seen again, with a white travel trailer behind it.
Aircraft dust cotton fields and swamps to kill boll weevil and mosquitoes in the United States. A hangar. A pilot and crew members stand in front of the hangar which has three compartments. Officers and civilian pilots of aircraft check a map of the area to be dusted. U.S. Army aircraft De Havilland DH-4M2 in the background. Crew members prepare two De Havilland DH-4M2 for the take off. The aircraft dust the cotton fields. Swamps are sprayed to destroy malaria mosquitoes. The aircraft hedge-hop over swamp lowlands and tree covered terrain dusting the spray. A haze over the area.
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