VNAF (Vietnam Air Force) and USAF (United States Air Force) officers in a combat control room at a U.S. base in Pleiku, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Viet Army officers receive phone calls at a desk. They check wall maps. VNAF and USAF officers discussing a request for an air strike against Viet Cong positions. A USAF officer typing. Signs reading 'ASOC T.T.H.Q.K.T.' and 'CTOC T.T.H.Q.C.T.'. Corps Headquarters building in Pleiku.
Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight Eisenhower talks to paratroopers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in England, a day before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. General Eisenhower inspects and talks to the paratroopers. Paratroopers with equipment on shoulders walk past tents. General Eisenhower speaks to men near airplanes.
Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight Eisenhower talks to paratroopers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in England, a day before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. General Eisenhower talks to Commander of 101st Airborne Division General Maxwell D. Taylor and other officers in front of a building. General Eisenhower inspects and talks to paratroopers. He walks through a crowd.
Helipad traffic at a Pentagon helipad in Virginia, United States. A USAF (United States Air Force) UH-1N Twin Huey helicopter approaches and lands on a helipad. U.S. officials leave the helicopter. The helicopter takes off.
Prime Minister of Laos Souvanna Phouma at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. The Seal of S Secretary of Defense on a door. Interior of an office room shows U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird greeting Souvanna Phouma and his staff. USMC (United States Marine Corps) MSGT (Master Sergeant) Barbara Newton at her desk.
U.S. Army paratroopers are seen heading toward C-47 transport planes and boarding them for a planned post-war airborne exercise in the Philippines. A large number of C-47 transport aircraft are seen with engines running on an airfield. They begin to taxi out for takeoff. View of a C-47 plane in flight, carrying an advance trooper who parachutes out carrying a radio beacon which he is next seen setting up the "Eureka" part of Signal Corps "Rebecca/Eureka" system. Closeup of the equipment and the trooper setting it up. He assembles a long radio antenna attached to the transmitter. View of three C-47 aircraft in flight heading toward the paratrooper drop zone. Animated drawing shows how the aircraft, carrying the "Rebecca" airborne interrogators, home in on the Eureka signal from the ground. Next, paratroopers are seen exiting aircraft over the drop zone. View from another airplane of the troopers' chutes opening and them descending from the C-47s. Parachutes are silhouetted against cloudy skies. Paratroopers landing, some roughly, on the ground.
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