U.S. Army Piper L-4 Cub and Stinson L-5 Liasion planes parked in line on rocky field in Italy, during World War 2. Several of them taxi and takeoff. Spitfires in the background.
Piper L-4 Cub plane approaches an airfield at a U.S. Army camp in Italy. The landing gear collapses upon landing. The pilot, an Army artilleryman, is helped out of plane by other soldiers, who inspect it and them move it out of the way.
Construction activity at a U.S. military base in arctic. Surveyor at work. Bulldozer in operation. Crane lifting buckets of concrete for foundations. Crane bucket is heated over a fire. Many established buildings seen in background. Workers fill bucket with concrete from large trailer. Ships in harbor, with snow covered hills behind. in water. Snow capped mountains. Clouds settled over mountains. Dock area. Buildings on base of mountains. (World War II period).
U.S. Coast Guard Captain aboard ship looks through binoculars. He converses with Several officers on his staff. Replenishing fleet. Cargo ship moves slow. Harbor entrance. LST (Landing Ship, Tank) and cargo ships. LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) at anchor. Transport, LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) alongside. LCVP underway, cargo ships at anchor in the background. Personnel transport at anchor, landing craft underway. Part of gun crew cleans and work on 1.1 guns. Puffs of smokes rise from island. Camouflaged LCT underway at sea. Camouflaged LST underway. DE (Destroyer Escorts) bombs island. Two LST underway toward DE. USCG officer on bridge of ship. Nevada Class battleship sends blinker message. 20 mm and 1.1 gun crews man guns aboard transport.
Elements of B Company, 2/47th Infantry (Mechanized) and C Company, 4/39th Infantry, clearing North Vietnamese Army regulars from "Widows' Village" (a hamlet of housing provided by the government of the Republic of Vietnam for widows and children of fallen ARVN soldiers). The action occurs January 31st, 1968 (on "Tet", the Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday). U.S. troops firing small arms as they proceed across tall grass into the hamlet. Several M 113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) are seen accompanying the troops. A soldier, who has been hit, lying prone between two other soldiers, tries to get up. Flames consuming huts. Riflemen moving cautiously. A slightly wounded soldier, lying on the ground, smiles as he points to his leg as another soldier helps him. APCs advance, firing 50 caliber machine guns. Riflemen staying close behind. Views of a number of huts, in the hamlet, that have not been destroyed. (Note: According to Colonel Sonny Craven, then leader of a combat photo team on the scene, these combat sequences was filmed by soldiers of the 221st Signal Company [Pictorial]). Craven and another photographer, were both wounded in the engagement.) (Vietnam War period).
Man moves along road on motorbike. U.S. heavy tanks parked along side road. Jeeps approach road. Men on top of tank. Tanks and armored personnel carriers lined up alongside road. Buildings framed in the background. Troops stand around side of personnel carriers, some sit on vehicles. Occasional tank seen in between carriers. Dead Vietcong with blackened face lay on outskirts of Tan Son Entrance. Dead Vietcong lay in grass. B-40 rockets seen in the foreground. Ordnance specialist work with small ordnance of grass. Dead Vietcong in the background. View of B-40 rockets and other small pyrotechnics material. Smoke curls up in air from the distant background due to bombing of RVN Air Force in A-1H aircraft. CH-37 helicopter sits in field. Parachute flare up in sky lights up night sky. (Vietnam War period).
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