The D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. Pharmacist's mates care for a wounded soldier. The wounded is transferred from one ship to another. Ships burn in a harbor. One ship sinks. LCIs (Landing Craft Tanks) in the harbor. Two soldiers go down the netting on the side of a ship.
Operation Piranha at White Beach in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. United States Marine personnel moving down combination ladder of the USS Bayfield (APA-33) with their packs and rifles. Marines board a waiting LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) alongside. LCVP in water. (Vietnam War period).
View of Hungnam Harbor, North Korea, during evacuation of American forces in the Korean War. Several Higgins boats are lined along the shore with ramps down, ready to receive evacuees. A landing craft infantry (LCI) is headed out from shore. Scene shifts to marines stepping into landing craft from a pier. The landing craft filled with marines. A Landing Ship Tank (LST) underway with deck full of tanks. Marines leaving landing craft and boarding the attack transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33).
View of various support ships in Hungnam Harbor, North Korea, during evacuation of American forces in the Korean War. Closeup of a net full of supplies being hauled aboard a transport ship, from a Higgins boat. The USS Bayfield (APA-33) and other transport ships seen from a small boat moving at high speed in the harbor.
Woman seen backing her 1962 Ford Galaxie convertible car out of carport of her house in the suburbs. Her husband is seated on a motorized lawn mower. View from inside Ford convertible as housewife backs out of the driveway and leaves driving on suburban streets; while her husband proceeds to cut the grass in the front yard, relying on motor power rather than personal exertion. Likewise, the woman driving along in her car, exerts little effort. Air Force personnel in uniform, at work in an office setting also expend little energy. A group of Air Force men engaged in calisthenics. A man exercising with dumbells for exercise and fitness. A man playing golf. Couples riding tandem bicycles, and paddling canoes. A group of men performing calisthenics and doing pushups. Several people swimming at a pool. Children being taught to swim by their father. Youth engaged in group swimming activities. A group of boys on a swim team line up and dive into the swimming pool.
'A nation rises ' Dramatization showing reenactments of scenes from civil war and aftermath in America. Still photographs of destruction from the civil war. Destroyed buildings and rubble in a Southern city. Numerous sets of railroad train wheels along with destroyed rails. Destroyed buildings in background. Dramatization showing postwar recovery efforts in rural areas, where men harness horses to help clear land. Settlers moving into the West. Buildings being constructed in the American Southwest. Herds of cattle moving through desert where cactus are growing. Illustration of a sailing ship carrying immigrants into New York harbor, with statue of Liberty in background. Reenactment of travelers boarding a large River boat. Smoke issuing from twin stacks of the river boat, as its horn blows. Bell ringing on the boat. Passengers watching from the boat as it moves along a river. Views of river and surrounding woods. A woman and baby on board the boat. Views of forests along river bank. View from water behind a moving sternwheeler river boat. A woman feeding chickens on a farm. A farmer harvesting a crop by hand, and another building a wall from stones taken out of the ground. A man stepping from a log house. An 18th century shop equipped with foot-operated wood working machines. Several farmers watching as one demonstrates Cyrus McCormick's reaper. (Note: period shown is from 1861 through about 1880. Film created about 1961)
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