United States Navy sailors wearing swimming trunks play at Omaha beachhead in Normandy, France during World War II. They get into the sea and splash water on each other as Landing Ship Tanks remain anchored in the background.
An animated map shows Electronic Wall around North America and Europe. Officers at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) communicate with officers at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) through forward scatter system. View of NATO military officials in monitoring and control rooms during communciations. A man draws a diagram to explain the forward scatter system to a group of officials. Antenna and transmission towers at Norway and Holland. A Norwegian radar patrol ship.
Newsreel titled "Plane crash kills 2 officers making blind flying test." On 27 February, 1937, Two Army Air Corps Reserve pilots are killed in the crash of a North American BT-9A, 36-118, "3", of the Air Detachment, 6th USAAC Area. (Reportedly, the accident occurred as 2d Lt. John P. Spake, in the front cockpit, was practicing instrument flying under a hood, while being monitored by 2d Lt. Clyde H. Wood, Jr in the rear cockpit.) The remains of the aircraft are seen at the edge of the Chicago Municipal Airport. Many spectators surround the crash site. A closeup of mangled wreckage encompassing the two cockpits. Two bodies are covered by tarpaulins near the broken left wing. Fire rescue officers carry one to a waiting ambulance.
With the help of an animated wall-size map, an American Army Lieutenant Colonel intelligence officer explains details of the German successful breakthough to France during May, 1940, in World War 2. The map depicts the opposing German and Allied lines after the German advances through Belgium and the low countries, and the officer shows their surprise assault through the Ardennes, across the Meuse River and into France, where they shattered the French 9th Army. The map is animated and illustrates as the Officer narrates the events, which end with the successful advance across France to the port of Abbeville, on the Somme River. The subsequent German operations forced British and French forces into an untenable position backed to the English Channel at Dunkirk, France.
Men make a hole with axes on flight deck to extinguish fire in hangar deck of United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Boxer (CV-21) off the coast of Korea. Smoke comes out from the hole. Sailors stick hose down into the hole to put out fire. (Korean War period.)
Ammunition boxes being unloaded from United States Navy ship Mount Katmai onto the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Boxer (CV-21) during the Korean War. F4U Corsair aircraft on the flight deck of Boxer. A spray on the deck from heavy sea.
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