Cargo with attached to olive green parachutes descending into Khe Sanh drop zone during the Vietnam War. Three United States Marines packing a cargo parachute into a bag. "REED" is written on the helmet of one of them. An African American Marines untangle parachute lines and then pack cargo parachute into bag. Marines packing camouflage parachutes. A Marine moves a cargo crate using a rough terrain forklift. A Marine smoking a cigarette helps as the forklift lifts piles crates together.
The Ming Tombs in Beijing, China. Stone elephants adorn the Spirit Way, the road leading to the Ming Tombs. A gate at the Ming Tombs. A white man in sunglasses walks in front of The Soul Tower at Changling Tomb. Chinese men in white shirts stand in front of the Chang Ling Ming tomb A man throws trash into a wooden trash bin. Shirtless laborers wearing coolie hats lift a stone block at a reservoir construction site near the tombs. Woman and man construction workers push wheelbarrows as others labor in the background. Men tamping down soil using a primitive compactor. Forms for a concrete arched bridge. A Chinese laborer smiles. A soldier in uniform worker laughs during the Great Leap Forward.
Iranian soldiers firing mortars and machine guns during a public demonstration. Iranian civilians and children watch a weapons demonstration by the Iranian Army. An Iranian Army officer uses the telephone to communicate orders to soldiers. Soldiers fire mortars on command. Soldiers in desert foxholes firing mortars. A general watch the demonstration from a pair of binoculars. Night shots, antiaircraft guns firing tracers into mountainside. Explosion on base of a mountain. An Iranian girl watches the demonstration with her family. Iranian soldiers firing with machine guns. Three soldiers demonstrate a Browning M1919 machine gun. Anti-aircraft guns fires at base of a mountain. Soldiers firing with Browning machine guns in Iran. More explosions at the base of a mountain. A soldier firing with rifle. Antiaircraft guns firing tracers into mountainside at night. Tracer ammunition flash as they are fired into the mountainside.
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks to reporters during his Press Conference at the White House. Journalists listen to speech. President Eisenhower listens to a reporter’s question. President Eisenhower reasserted his longstanding insistence on advance progress as a pre-condition to a Summit meeting. He said that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev could not force him by "bluff" or "blackmail" to attend unless there were grounds for believing that "real measures can be discussed profitably by all of us".
A bomber flying at low altitude. Bomber drops fragmentation bombs in flight. Parachutes delay the descent of fragmentation bombs. Fragmentation bombs fall with parachutes. A man assembles pins on fragmentation bomb. Man loosens a set screw of fragmentation bomb using a screwdriver. The fin assembly is placed into the tail of the bomb body. The fin turns carefully into the bomb body. Man locks the fin and bomb body into place by tightening the set screw.
United States Army engineers lay down matting on the beach during the Allied landing in Sicily (WWII). A “general purpose vehicle” truck moves away from a docked landing craft, moves over matting. A half-track with a 105 mm howitzer moves out of landing craft. Landing crafts unload military vehicles on the beach. Soldiers on top of a moving tank. Trucks parked on the side of a road. Soldiers and vehicles move on the beach. An infantry landing craft docked on the beach. A damaged craft stuck on the beach. Damaged boats, equipment, debris scattered on the beach. Landing craft tilting on the side. United States troops moving on a beachhead, along with artillery pieces, and vehicles. An Army Jeep moves in front of a landing craft. Amphibious vehicles wading to the shore. Soldiers setting up equipment on the beach. Soldiers form pontoon bridges using boats. A tractor pulls a pontoon to the shore. Troops cross the pontoon bridge into the beach. A truck disembarks from pontoon bridge.
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