U.S. troops on Roi-Namur island of the Kwajalein Atoll during the Battle of Kwajalein in World War II. Marines at a 1.1"/75 caliber gun on the deck of a ship. A fleet of U.S. Navy transports and aircraft carriers underway at sea. The cargo deck of an LST (Landing Ship, Tank). Explosions due to bombardment on Kwajalein Atoll. U.S. Marines in boats heading towards the shore. Smoke due to explosions on the beach. Troops going down the side of transport ship using a cargo net into the LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel). Ships at sea and clouds of smoke rising in the background. Marines getting down from LCVPs on the shore. A Marine fires a 3"/50 caliber gun. An amphibious craft on the shore. A U.S. Navy dive bomber SBD Dauntless in flight overhead. Explosions on the beach. An LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) underway at sea. The Marines get off an LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) and advance across the beach. Marines and a few amphibious vehicles on the beach. An LVT coming up on the beach. Two GIs firing rifles on the shore. An LST with troops on the beach. Marines load and fire 75 mm howitzers. A combat cameraman operates a camera mounted on a tripod. Marines on an airfield. An explosion occurs and dirt and rubble fly all around. Marines inside a bomb crater firing carbines. A Marine looking under a concrete slab aiming his carbine. A Marine engineer constructing a yard grenade with one end in a hole and other Marines standing around taping a fuse on it. Two Marines run away from the hole. Explosions occur. Dead Japanese soldiers lying behind a wooden screen. A partially constructed Japanese hangar with burnt canvas. A part of the tail of a Japanese bomber in view. Two soldiers beside a wrecked aircraft. One of them looking into the fuselage of the aircraft. View of the tail assembly of a wrecked Japanese bomber on an airfield. A damaged Japanese bunker. An LCVP beside a U.S. Navy ship. Wounded men being transferred from the LCVP to the ship. Church services held on a beach at Kwajalein.
Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. U.S. Army Strategic Army Corps (STRAC) is assigned to U.S. Forces, Atlantic Command. U.S. troops take part in various military exercises. A U.S. Air Force aircraft takes off from an airstrip. U.S. 1st Armored Division tanks rolling. The U.S. Army starts to mobilize. Troops travel by trains and jeeps.
Graduation ceremony of new U.S. Navy officers in the United States. A large number of midshipmen seated in a building of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. They receive their graduation degrees. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth does the honors. A crowd applauds and cheers. U.S. Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson awards degrees to new U.S. Air Force officers in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Johnson on a reviewing stand. The cadets at West Point in New York receive their degrees from President John F Kennedy. Kennedy addresses them. The new U.S. Army officers cheer and applaud.
The anniversary of the D-Day at Utah Beach in Normandy, France during World War II. Girls in U.S. and French flag dresses. Wreaths are placed at the foot of a monument by U.S. and French representatives. U.S. and French troops pass in review. A crowd at the ceremony. U.S. and French representatives stand beside the D-Day monument to U.S. Army's 1st Brigade of Engineers and salute. They climb down stairs. French General Paul Le Gentilhomme salutes. Artillery guns in the background. Soldiers stand beside the monument and salute. The soldiers hold the U.S. and French flags.
First scene shows a U.S. Army UH-1 helicopter flying over South Vietnam during Vietnam War. Next, American soldier is seen firing at Viet Cong who are running toward a downed helicopter. U.S. soldiers seen climbing out of the helicopter, which is turned on its side. They rush away under fire from the Viet Cong. A ward in a U.S. military hospital in vietnam, where wounded soldiers being treated. Closeups of some of the patients. A flat bed truck carrying American flag-draped coffins of fallen American soldiers drives past a U.S. C-130 aircraft with number 54375 on its tail. A contingent of U.S. servicemen, including sailors in whites and others in Khakis, at parade rest, near a C-130 aircraft. They begin to carry the flag-draped caskets bearing dead American military personnel into the rear loading door of the aircraft. Closeups of Vietnamese people. U.S. soldiers jamming the side railings of a troop ship arriving in Vietnam. One soldier hurries down the gangplank. Then a soldier carrying a unit flag, with numeral one on it, descends the gangplank, followed by two officers. Next, troops are seen assembled with American flag and another one carried by soldiers.
Brazil enters World War II against Germany. Map of Brazil shown. Crowds gather on the streets of Rio de Janeiro as war is declared. German embassy is closed for safety of Brazil. Stores and shops are closed in Axis countries. Axis ships are confiscated at sea. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President of Brazil GetĂșlio Dornelles Vargas meet and sign documents of alliance between two nations. Lend-lease military equipment is unloaded from ships. U.S. and Brazilian pilots meet. U.S. pilots give training to Brazilian pilots. Planes take off. Brazilian pilots fly trainer planes to Brazil from the U.S. Flags of Brazil at mast. Brazilian airplanes take off for patrolling the coast. Brazilian ships depart from Brazilian shipyard. Brazilian President GetĂșlio Vargas promises to defend the coast of Brazil. Ships underway at sea. U.S. sailors stand at attention aboard a ship at a Brazilian port. Workers work in an ordnance factory. Brazilian armed forces and U.S. troops march parade. Military equipment pass on road.
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