USS Shangri La (CV-38) and USS Hancock return to port in the United States after World War 2. A girl waves towards ships (USS Shangri La (CV-38) and USS Hancock (CV-19)). Crowds of friends and family standing at pier in the background to welcome the troops. Large crowds of U.S. Navy personnel and sailors. Troops carry their luggage and disembark the USS Shangri La (CV-38). They load their luggage on to truck. Crowds standing at pier.
Opening scenes show destroyed and damaged American UH-1 helicopters. A flying buzzard depicted on remains of one. Damage to buildings at American airbases and other installations, including barracks of U.S. servicemen, where a photograph of a girl and other personal items are seen on the ground. Smoke rising and ambulance responding at site of a bombing in Saigon. Injured personnel bleeding, after the Viet Cong detonate a car bomb outside the American Embassy in Saigon, on March 30, 1965. A victim being carried on a stretcher. (Vietnam War period).
U.s. Coast Guard crew members run from their hangar to their HH-52 Search and Rescue helicopter, parked on a pier. They don personal equipment and board the helicopter which then takes off. View from the cockpit as the chopper heads toward orange smoke from a flare in the waters close to shore. It lands, close to a man, in the water. View from inside the HH-52 as the rescue crew performs a platform pickup. A crew member deploys a steel grate platform and assists the man onto the platform, from the water.The crew member then folds the platform into the helicopter, which takes off and flies away.
Detroit riots in Detroit, Michigan, United States. U.S. Army soldier on guard in a street. Ground views - demolished buildings and wrecked autos. A building. Two soldiers patrol the street. Vehicles move on road. Vehicles in front of a building. Soldier walks out from the building. Men carry out cartons from the building.
Detroit riots in Detroit, Michigan. A man walks on a side walk. Building in the background. Sign on building:'7- Bruesser & Co.'. Insignia of Michigan Bell Telephone Company on a van. Barbed wire and a sign board of 'Restricted Area'. U.S. soldiers stand on guard duty.
Aftermath of Detroit riots in Detroit, Michigan. U.S. soldiers on guard duty at Gratiot Avenue and Beaubien Street. Vehicles move on road in the background. Soldier stops the pedestrians and drives them back. Sign 'Wayne County' on a wall. Vehicles on a road. A jeep is seen, turning off Clinton Street onto Beaubien.
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