The Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden with American delegate Harry Hopkins. Presidential party baggage arrives by a truck at Livadia Palace. U.S. Army, Navy personnel and Russian helpers unload the baggage and carry them inside the palace. U.S. Army General George C. Marshall arrives for the conference with U.S. Army Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell. U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King exits a car as he arrives at Livadia Palace for the conference.
The uses and importance of weapons since ancient times in the United States. Pages showing U.S Congress Act creating the National Bureau for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, 1903. Exteriors of the 71st Regiment National Guard Armory building in New York City at Park Avenue and 33rd Street. People enter the building. German troops on parade circa 1914. American troops mobilized for World War 1, and traveling on troop trains in 1918. Troops moving along a muddy road, with military supplies in wagons being pulled by horses. American soldiers firing their 1903 Springfield rifles, from a bunker in France. Americans firing a M1914 Hotchkiss air-cooled machine gun and another U.S. gun crew firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun. U.S. troops wearing gas masks, firing a trench mortar. American gun crew firing a 155mm howitzer (as some hold their ears).French troops walk past destroyed buildings above which a blimp is seen flying with French observers in a gondola suspended underneath.
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. United States soldiers being trained in the use of recoilless rifle. Men fire recoilless rifles. Soldiers fire rifles during a training exercise. Smoke rises. A soldier look through binoculars. Scene changes to Korea. North Korean Army soldiers on motorbikes, bicycles and horses advance in Korea during the Korean War. Artillery and mortars being set up and fired by North Korean forces. U.S. Army soldiers carrying rifles advance in Korea during the Korean War. American Army soldiers take up positions on hills overlooking a valley and are seen firing at North Korean enemy positions. U.S. Army soldiers return to the United States after the Korean War. They disembark from a ship. The soldiers loaded in trucks move past cheering crowds in a New York parade.
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Camp Perry in Ohio. Military Trophies and civilian National Rifle Association (NRA) trophies for world series in marksmanship placed on a table. Service personnel and civilians at Camp Perry. Insignia on the back of the shirt of a participant. A 5th Infantry Division insignia on the back of a man. National Small Arms School instructors brief civilians and personnel in operation and firing of M-1 rifles. Participants fire rifles at a range during a competition. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Matthew B. Ridgway presents trophies to winners of the competition at a ceremony in Washington DC. Scene changes to show a group of boys, all members of the Fairlington Junior Rifle Club in Arlington County, Virginia. The boys (and one girl also seen) wear shooting jackets with various patches commemorating NRA and other events. Boys seated on the ground. The boys and girls take prone position and fire rifles at a range at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, during an outing, supported by the U.S. Army. One boy wears a confederate soldier kepi style hat. Some of the children use their own rifles, modified for lighter weight. They cross the range together to look at targets. An instructor helps a boy. A boy loads a rifle and fires it. He looks through binoculars to check the accuracy of his shot. Sergent Stuart Queen at a desk as he speaks.
Views of aircraft operating at Tan Son Nhut Airbase, Saigon, in the period of Operation Market Time. A yellow Follow-Me vehicle is moving along a taxiway. Parked behind it are three U.S. Air Force EC-121D "Big Eye Task Force" aircraft from the 552nd Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing. (Aircraft from that unit rotated on 90-day temporary duty assignments, from their home base at McClelland AFB, California.) A number of C-123s and C-47s can be seen parked on the flight line in the background. A USAF B-57B aircraft taxis along the taxiway (where the Follow-Me vehicle had led). Next, a C-123 taxis on that taxiway, in the opposite direction. An O-1E Bird Dog observation plane taxis past the noses of the EC-121Ds as a U.S. Army UH-1E Iroquois helicopter flies overhead and lands behind them. U.S. Navy A-1H Skyraider with Tail Code Z, taxis past the camera, followed by another with Tail Code V. In background, another UH-1E helicopter lands and an ambulance takes wounded away. It is followed by yet another one, also met by ambulance. A U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H aircraft of Patrol Squadron Four (Tail Code YD) taxis fairly close to the camera.
Allied campaign against Quadalcanal and Solomon Islands during World War II. Captured Japanese Labor Battalion prisoners (called Termites by the Marines) and some Imperial Marines march and are lined up. Japanese prisoners seated behind a barbed wire fence. A Japanese soldier being given first aid. treatment by an American medic. Dead Japanese soldiers from a Regiment commanded by Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki, are seen on the beach at, 'Alligator Creek.' (They fell during a nighttime attack against entrenched U.S. Marines, on 21 August 1942. The ICHIKI Regiment lost 777 killed during their attack. Only six members of the regiment escaped.) Corporal Barney Ross (former U.S. boxing champion) receives a Japanese flag as a souvenir. U.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz decorates Marine Colonel 'Red' Mike Edson, Commander of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion and U.S. Marine pilots: Major Smith, Captain Carl and Major Gaylor during the ceremonies. Brief glimpse of Marine Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift with Admiral Nimitz
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