Injured U.S. soldiers in England. Nurses carry injured men on wheel chair. An army medic checks a injured man on wheel chair. Men sitting on ground cheer and wave. Nurses with army medics come out of a building. Men take out injured on stretchers from a medical van.
Injured U.S. soldiers arrive in England. Brief view of American soldiers forming a human pyramid. Soldiers march carrying American flag. British women of Red Cross wheel injured United States soldiers in wheel chairs to an outside gathering at Dartford. Women present flowers to the injured doughboy soldiers in wheel chairs. The group poses. Injured and wounded men sit on ground holding flowers. A camouflage troop ship arriving at harbor.
President of the United States Gerald R. Ford, Jr awards medals to soldiers of Vietnam War during a ceremony in White House in Washington DC. United States Army soldiers Louis R. Rocco and Jon R. Cavaiani with their families enter a hall in the White House. President of the United States Gerald Ford Jr walks up to the platform to the podium. He addresses the gathering. He talks about the Vietnam War. He talks about the heroism of the U.S. officers and states some of the incidents.
Wounded U.S. troops are treated on a Pacific island during World War II. A bulldozer moves through a torii. Vehicles driven to a medical hospital. Men clear rubble in the Japanese hospital. Men draw water from a well and pour into a container. A man dips a cloth in the container. A medic observes through a microscope as he works on setting up a laboratory. Water is sprinkled on mud from a tanker. Soldiers enter a division hospital. The soldiers carry an injured on a stretcher. Medics treat patients. A medic washes hands. The medics apply bandages on the injured soldiers. A medic inserts the needle of a blood bottle into a patient.
A winter storm in the United States. In Washington DC: snow covered roads. Cars covered with snow. A public transport bus covered with snow. Snow on trees. Exteriors of the snow covered U.S. Capitol. In New York: wind blows snow. A bulldozer removes snow from roads. Cars covered with snow. Men remove snow from cars. A car is driven.
A film about the history of aviation in the United States. Retired Air Force Brigadier General, Frank Lahm talks about his first flight, as an Army Lieutenant, with Orville Wright on the Wright Flyer airplane, in July, 1909.Then, Retired Major GeneralBenjamin Foulois recalls how, as an Army Lieutenant, he flew the final cross-country and speed test flight from Fort Myer to Alexandria , Virginia, and back, again, with Orville Wright on 30th July, 1909. Film then shows that event, on July 30, 1909. Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois is seen climbing aboard the Wright Flyer airplane to accompany Orville Wright on the final cross-country and speed test required by the U.S. Army before it would purchase any aircraft. View of the Wright Flyer taking off with Wright and Foulois. Spectators watch in the background. View from another perspective of the aircraft taking off from Fort Myer, Virginia. View of the Wright Flyer being moved by several soldiers after landing back on the Fort Myer drill ground. (In his comments about this, Foulois notes that the flight set three world records: flying ten miles cross-country; attaining altitude of 600 feet, and speed of 42.5 miles per hour.)
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