Jefferson Thomas standing against the wall in hallway of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, four years after graduating. Bell rings and the hall fills with students changing classes, including African American and white students. Scene shifts to Elizabeth Eckford, while a student at Central High, and then to her at Central State College, in Ohio, where she is seen moving about the campus buildings and grounds. Scene flashes back to 1957 where she is seen with others entering Central High, Little Rock, Arkansas, under U.S. Army protection. Scene returns to Central State College, where students stand in a circle and sing their Alma Mater song.
Soldiers sit on ground during a prayer meeting at Grassy Acre in Camp Robinson under 'Operation Arkansas'. U.S. Army chaplain Chester Lindsey of 101st Airborne Division addresses the meeting from a dais. Soldiers pray. Major General Edwin A Walker sits with the officers and soldiers of 101st Airborne Division. He sits on a chair while some of the soldiers sit in front and others stand behind him. He talks to the soldiers and smiles.
U.S. Army soldiers of 5th Mechanized Infantry Regiment, "Bobcats," of the 25th Infantry Division, on patrol. They move and fire their M-16 rifles and M-79 grenade launcher during Operation Cedar Falls. African American soldier loads M-60 machine gun and sprays the area with gunfire. Soldiers receive wounds from the accidental tripping of a Viet Cong booby trap. Medics attend leg wounds of a soldier. A wounded is carried on litter. African American medic inserts an intravenous plasma IV into a wounded soldier as another holds his head. (Reportedly, the cameraman who shot this footage was Richard Welsh of the Department of the Army Special Photo Office.)
U.S. Army Sergeant, from the 5th Mechanized Infantry Regiment "Bobcats" of the 25th Infantry Division, on an M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier. He speaks on radio during Operation Cedar Falls. M-113s move across fields in jungle. Banana plants are seen. (Vietnam War period).
Soldiers of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division pick up shells of 105 mm howitzer and leave during Operation Hawthorne of Vietnam War. The soldiers, a mix of African American and White troops, chat and smile during the pick ups.
A KC-130F plane as it taxis towards runway during troop build-up in Da Nang. U.S. Army mule with supplies drives out of cargo door of KC-130F. United States Marines in battle gear also come out. A radio jeep drives out of KC-103F. Marines fall in formation. A fleet of planes besides them. The marines march away. (Vietnam War period).
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