U.S. 5307th Composite Unit in Burma. A basketball game between Chinese and United States troops. Chinese and Americans watch the match. Houses and trees in the background. (World War II period).
U.S. 5307 Composite regiment in Burma during World War 2. United States soldiers on a canvas-covered area. They prepare supply parachutes.
U.S. Army soldier technician, wearing headset, monitors a battery of instruments and recordin devices. A soldier operates a television camera with "Signal Corps Television" written on its side, as it records field operation of a Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) and an M47 (Patton II) medium tank. View of images being transmitted and received at headquarters. View of a military aircraft releasing an air-to air missile. It tracks and strikes a drone target aircraft that explodes and falls in flames.
Brief history of the use of parachutes early in the 20th Century. Allied Spad aircraft taxi from flightline in World War 1. One pilot pursuing another in their respective World War 1 airplanes. Numerous World War I airplanes in dogfights. Post-war "barnstormer" being pulled by parachute from wing of a Curtiss JN-4 (Jenny) airplane. Soviet soldier jumping from a parachute training tower in 1930s. Infantry, cargo and weapons being airdropped from Soviet Tupolev R-6 bombers in flight. A Soviet manned vehicle being airdropped from a few feet by airplane. (The soldier jumps up unhurt after landing.) German paratroopers jumping from Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft early in World War 2.
A mix of scenes involving the U.S. Army Parachute Team as members execute maneuvers in the air to research various techniques for aerial maneuvers applicable to airborne military operations. Team members executing maneuvers as they skydive on various occasions. Individuals photographed in a variety of different maneuvers. Three jumpers in formation. Several viewed skydiving with smoke grenades making trails as they free-fall in a public demonstration. Team member's chutes are seen opening as they approach the 2200 foot altitude during a skydiving exhibition. View from a jumper's camera as he descends by parachute toward a target marked on the ground. View from the ground of Army skydiver about to land. Sequence of Army Parachute Team members landing successively on a ground target.
LSTs 742 and 869 seen discharging tanks and other vehicles 35 miles North of Pusan, South Korea, in , 1950. Reinforcement troops wade ashore from landing craft. A column of North Korean prisoners is marched, under guard, along a road. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur is greeted by officers as he steps from an airplane. He boards a jeep. View from an airplane flying over the area. It flies above and behind a B-26 as it fires an air-to-ground weapon that explodes in a ball of fire on the ground.
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