United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers in a helicopter in flight. A soldiers talks over the radio receiver. Another mans a machine gun. Aerial view of the area below. The pilot in the cockpit. Black smoke rising from enemy rocket explosion in residential area near the Kontum airfield. U.S. FSB (Fire Support Base) November, with enemy artillery rounds exploding in rice paddies near the base. The machine gun barrel and ammunition belt. A South Vietnamese soldier alongside a U.S. gunner firing M-16 rifle towards the ground. Explosions in enemy positions. A South Vietnamese officer questions Montagnard refugees on a road. U.S. soldiers stand by and watch.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Vietnamese refugees board a U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The helicopter takes off. The chopper in flight at sunset. U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers inside a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter during a FAC mission over Kontum. A soldier on the radio in the chopper. A battery on the helicopter floor. The pilot at controls in the cockpit. Aerial view of craters and terrain damage from a bomb strike. Smoke due to fire from explosions.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. U.S. Army Signal Corps officers train at the Signal Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Officers train at telegraph machines under the supervision of an instructor. Officers seated at desks in a classroom. Instructors take classes with the help of charts, diagrams and black boards. Officers seated atop electric poles for training. Two officers train in hand-to-hand combat at the OCS. Officers learn to use Radio Relay. Students listen to an instructor as he demonstrates the process. A U.S. soldier lays field wire across a hilly terrain to establish wire communications in the European Theater during World War II. Soldiers on the hill. Soldiers set up a sending station at the point where the wire can't go forward. A receiver is set up at the point from where the wire can go forward again. A soldier receives a photograph of a map through facsimile. Items of signal communication including radio relays, receivers, walkie-talkies, radio boxes and fuses to be produced and distributed by the USA Signal Corps to all other ground forces, navy and the Allies. New, modern, improved efficient signal communication equipment. A soldier displays two old type fuses and their counterparts.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Army Pictorial Service films including screen magazines and GI movies are delivered to war fronts in all Theaters during World War 2. An officer arrives in a jeep with the films. Officers and soldiers around tents at the base. Soldiers in camouflage rain coats and hats seated at a foxhole theater. The soldiers watch the latest Joan McCraken Broadway hit Bloomer Girl. Scenes from the film. US: Pictures shown to workers depict the use of products manufactured by them at the war fronts. A poster reads 'B-52 Super Bombers, Bell Aircraft'. Men working inside the Bell Aircraft Corporation plant in NY. Huge machinery, equipment and aircraft parts being manufactured. Workers near stands piled with equipment and parts. A foreign version of the films made for Chinese allies. A U.S. officer talks to soldiers. The film dubbed in Chineese.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers train Burmese recruits in Burma during World War II. The students learn the uses of a compass and medical procedures for helping wounded comrades. A Burmese instructor shows them a compass and demonstrates its uses. The students listen as he gives instructions. The instructor demonstrates the uses of a compass on a map on the table. A Burmese recruit stands on a table as another wraps a bandage around his foot to demonstrate medical procedures. An American instructor and the other students observe. The American instructor then demonstrates tying of a bandage around the head. The Burmese instructor guides the students to follow the same steps. The American instructor looks on as the recruits demonstrate plastering a broken arm. He guides the students.
The American Unknown Soldier of World War I lying in State at the U.S. Capitol before burial at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. The Unknown Hero lies in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States), Washington DC. U.S. First Lady Florence Harding drapes the casket with a white silk ribbon as an official helps her. Officials and officers around the coffin as President Warren G. Harding places a wreath on the coffin. U.S. Vice President Calvin Coolidge and Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft lay a wreath on the coffin. General John J. Pershing lays a wreath and salutes. The Unknown Soldier in the Capitol dome. Wreath and flower placed over the casket . People pour in to pay respects and view the body. A long line outside the Capitol as people arrive to pa tribute to the Unknown Hero. Casket of the Unknown soldier inside the Capitol. Animation depicts the sacrifices made by American soldiers in the past including the American revolution, War of 1812, and the American-Spanish War of 1898.
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