General Charles De Gaulle and General Henri Giraud, escorted by Cadet Officers, review formation of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Men,women and children observe the proceedings from a lawn and applaud. General de Gaulle and his party emerge from a building and are escorted to the L'Ecole Polytechnique Monument, presented to the cadets of USMA by cadets of that French school, in 1919. General de Gaulle places a memorial wreath at the base of the monument. General de Gaulle and all other officers salute.
A few U.S. officials during World War II are seen interrogating officials of the Hadamar Mental facility, which also served as a Nazi German human experiment facility and extermination facility. The Camp Commander and a medical officer are brought in by the soldiers. The bodies of the victims of the mass murder. The body of a woman. Soldiers carry bodies and place them on the ground. The bodies of prisoners who were starved to death. The corpses of those tortured to death. Bodies piled up near a building. The bodies of prisoners in Landsberg. The dead bodies of prisoners at various concentration camps who were killed by burning, shooting, starvation or poison gas. The dead body of an infant. The dead bodies of prisoners who were shot or starved to death at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Piles of dead prisoners who were burnt to death by high voltage wires. A few women who survived the sufferings at the camp.
A suspicious automobile being checked by Customs and Border Protection Officers at the border with Mexico in San Diego, California. Officers check the trunk of the car looking for contraband, illegal border crossings, or illegal drugs. A man is brought out from the trunk. An officer holds him with his hands at the back. An officer opens some luggage. A Customs and Border Protection officer at the US-Mexican border crossing. The officer stops a vehicle and talks to the people inside. Several vehicles behind. The police man stops another car and talks to the driver leaning against the car. Two men near the door of a vehicle. Officers examining the bed of a pickup vehicle. Officer displays a plastic bag, apparently filled with packages of illegal drugs. Some packages fall out as he takes them inside the building.
Railroad ambush detector in Vietnam.precedes the train and senses any tampering with the track. Spotlight equipped helicopters, called "fireflies." expose night activities of the enemy to gun ships. Large group of UH-1 helicopters in flight. A CH-47, heavy lift helicopter transporting artillery and supplies. U.S. Army AH-1Huey Cobra, firing rockets and gatling miniguns. Cayuse OH-6 observation helicopter in flight. (Vietnam War period).
Lynda Johnson at the christening of a vessel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, United States. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda Bird Johnson is accompanied by her sister Luci Baines Johnson at the christening of a vessel in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Several Naval Officers with Lynda Johnson. Two vessels in view. Officers aboard the vessel. Lynda Bird Johnson with her sister and a Naval Officer aboard the vessel. Lynda Johnson presides over the christening of the troop transport. The guests at the ceremony seated as they witness the event.
Aerial view of small houses and huts among trees being bombed and strafed by U.S. A-1Skyraider aircraft during Vietnam War. Several trees and a stream flowing among them. A few huts among the trees. Thick smoke and fire rising from several areas in the region. Fields in view near the trees. Smoke emanating from huts near the fields. Smoke rising from several areas. Several trees in view. Few buildings in view. Smoke rising at a distance seen.
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