USS Carronade (IFS-1) providing Inshore fire support during Vietnam War. Views of shoreline from the ship. Rockets fired from the Carronade land on shore and in the surf. Fire Control Technicians, in battle gear, look over charts. One uses pair of compasses to measure, and speaks over radio. Sailors use hose to water down 5 inch rocket shell that misfired and rolled onto the deck. A Sailor throws the dud over the side of the ship into the water.
Qui Nhon harbor in Vietnam. A military compound called Camp Goldberg, named for U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Joseph A Goldberg, the pilot of a helicopter shot down by the Viet Cong on July 15, 1962. Within the compound, are seen the Lane and Guthrie maintenance hangars, dedicated to the memories of Sp/5 James Everett Lane, the gunner, and Sp/5 Harold Lee Guthrie, the Crew Chief, both of whom lost their lives with CWO Goldberg. (Reportedly, these were the first U.S. Army Aviation personnel killed in action, in Vietnam. ) (Vietnam War period).
Fishermen of Japanese descent at work at a port in the west of the U.S.. Boats stand in water at a dock. Men work on docks and deal with fish. Group of United States Navy destroyers stands nearby at port. Japanese fishermen pull fishing net. Footage circa 1941-1942 near time of opening of Japanese relocation centers and internment camps in the U.S. during World War 2.
U.S. Army Japanese-American soldier recruits at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. Company 2nd Infantry Combat Team. Combat team engineers get training of blowing a tree down by the use of TNT to stop enemies' tanks. Engineers tie a belt around tree's trunk, straighten the wire and blow the tree under the instruction of Nisei engineer Sergeant. Combat team watches the blow from a distance (World War II period).
Alcohol production and taxation system: dramatization and animation. Dramatic raid of alcohol and tobacco tax division on illegal moonshine stills in a forest in the southern U.S. Officials of the Alchohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service walk in woods. Illegal moonshiners sit in woods with rifle in hand and sacks on ground. Horse cart in the woods. Barrels of alcohol. Men fight. The officers dynamite and explode an illegal still. Animation shows the ancient time when men discovered the intoxicating effect of alcohol in different parts of world like Greece and China. Taxes on alcohol. Excess grain used by colonial government and process of making alcohol by grain. Alcohol making industry at a farm and exchange of necessary goods with alcohol. Alcohol making industry at small scale and factory of alcohol. The production of alcohol starts in1866 and reaches 15 million dollars and 90 million barrels production rate. Truck in 1950s driving into a brewery plant. View of giant cooper brewing kettles in brewery. The process of brewing beer. Production of beer is shown, with grains like barley and rice passing through machines and into brewing kettles. Alcohol as main source of revenue. Officials work at the permissive branch for administration of laws related to liquor, tobacco, cigarette paper and tubes production. Women and men sitting at desks. Women doing typing and clerical work reviewing forms and applications. Worker adds mash through a tube to a giant kettle in a distillery. In the Seagram's bourbon whiskey distillery in Louisville Kentucky, workers assemble wooden barrels, prepare flaming barrel lids for bourbon barrels, and they pound stoppers in barrels with a mallet and prepare them for shipment while an IRS inspector looks on. Government official of the IRS supervises production, packaging and labeling services in the factory. Seagram name and Louisville location seen printed on the barrels.
British and Canadian preparations for World War II. Britain converts personal properties into State properties. Men and women work in factory. A banner with the phrase 'Go to it' coined by the Britisher Morrison. Workers construct buildings in Canada. White smoke comes out of factory. Workers at gun factory. Worker checks barrel alignment of a gun. Man checks firing capacity of gun. Workers at shipyard work on submarine. Steel plates used to lessen the weight. Trucks, tractors and ambulances made in factory. Testing and standardization of truck by National Research Council. They use X-Ray for testing of parts of machinery. A Canadian Pacific railroad train moves on tracks carrying train cars loaded with weapons and war supplies. Aircraft, trucks, tanks and ships as weapons of Canada. Industrial workers work in steel factories to make these machines.
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