South Vietnamese soldiers board an armored rail car in a train in 1960 before the Vietnam War. Close view of steam locomotive wheels and piston as it starts up. A silhouette of a soldier with gun on board a train with tracks in the foreground. An explosion on train tracks ahead. A gun firing from a gun turret. A machine gun firing from a slit. Soldiers running up a hill and field. They shoot with guns in the smoke-covered battlefield. Explosion in the field. South Vietnamese soldiers evacuate wounded and carry equipment out of battle. United States officials disembark from United States aircraft. A United States official, possibly retired General Maxwell Taylor, is interviewed by the media. United States and South Vietnamese soldiers inspect a cutaway of an airplane engine and propeller during training. A United States Air Force instructor shows an aircraft model to South Vietnamese pilots. United States and South Vietnamese pilots shake hands. South Vietnamese pilot sits in fighter plane cockpit. The cockpit canopy closes. A United States Army specialist speaks to South Vietnamese soldiers in Vietnamese during weapons training. United States military adviser talks to some soldiers, pointing to a map. Soldiers carrying ammo boxes and weapons, and wearing foliage for camouflage. An African American soldier holding a 60mm M2 mortar. Soldiers shoot guns, including M1919 Browning machine gun, as Vietcong soldiers run away. Camouflaged U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers running towards jungle. A U.S. soldier points as a young Vietcong soldier emerges from brush. Captured Vietcong prisoners sit on the ground and are led away. United States medical specialists treat Vietnamese civilians in village. An army doctor uses a stethoscope on a woman’s chest.
United States helicopters on airfield during the Vietnam War. United States Army advisors talk to one another. They share maps, papers and discuss plans. U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers board United States helicopters...including a CH-21C Shawnee. A Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse takes off from airfield. South Vietnamese soldiers onboard helicopter holding rifle and machine gun. A group of helicopters in flight. Point of view from helicopter as it flies down a river. Piasecki H-21 helicopter in flight. A South Vietnamese soldier looks out of window. South Vietnamese soldiers jump out of helicopters and cross rice field after landing. Aerial view showing some soldiers using a field telephone in the middle of a dense jungle. Two United States soldiers shout at each other. An injured U.S. soldier lies on a stretcher and loaded on helicopter. A South Vietnamese soldier in helicopter. The helicopter flies away. A South Vietnamese Navy captain shows his United States counterpart enemy positions after looking through binoculars. Swift boats shooting at Vietcong forces. South Vietnamese soldiers carrying weapons and landing on beachhead. A South Vietnamese soldier gives signal to fire. An explosion on beachhead. South Vietnamese soldiers load shells into mortar and fires them. An injured South Vietnamese soldier with saline tube attached to him lying on a stretcher. The injured soldier cries in pain. Vietnamese women watch medics clean another soldier. A Vietnamese soldier prays for the dead, incense burns in front of him.
Scenes in Brandeis California at the Sodium Reactor Experiment site. A man removes and washes solid uranium slugs contained in rod clusters. The slugs are put on paper towel to dry. Men inspect the rod clusters. A man inserts the slug into the rod. A thin-walled stainless steel jacket encloses the slugs. Chemical compounds travel through glass tubes. Chemicals pour into a retort flask. Sodium potassium medium is used for heat transfer from the fuel slug to the jacket. The bonding material were admitted under an inert atmosphere. A jacket is sealed on each end by a welded stainless-steel plug. Scientists employ ultrasonic inspection. A scientist takes off welding mask. The six outside rods are spirally wrapped with stainless steel wire to prevent the fuel rods from touching each other or the coolant channel. Scientist pulls out a rod wrapped in stainless steel wire. The rod is inserted into the sodium cooler. A man in white inspects the moderator assemblies. Reactor grade graphite is machined into a hexagonal shape before being sealed into the zirconium cans. A machine presses panels of zirconium before the panels are machined into the specified width. A Heliarc welding is used for longitudinal welding. Scientists pull out the filler rod so the seams could fuse together. They carry the rod away. Scientist leak test a moderator can. A scientist inserts a well into an x-ray to check for porosity and contamination. They insert three graphite blocks to comprise the moderator element for each can. Short sections of moderator cans are tested for durability of welded head assemblies. Scientists conduct further safety tests to ensure the durability of the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) nuclear power plant. A scientist uses a wrench. A stainless-steel grid plate near the bottom of the core tank supports and locates the moderator assemblies. The holes space the lower ends of the moderator cans and fuel elements on a triangular lattice. Stainless steel core tank contains the core. A welder welding bottom head. The side of the tank with 3 ring section. The animation shows the layers of the core tank of the Sodium Reactor Experiment. Casting of low carbon steel to form seven rings that comprise the thermal shield. View of the thermal shield of the sodium reactor core tank. Animation shows the rotatable top shield on top of the core tank. Man installs moderator assembly on top of the rotatable top shield. The top shield is filled with dense concrete. Man with sodium pump or modified hot oil pumps. The pump rotates.
German Panzer tanks and light armored vehicles moving forward in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. German 10.5cm self-propelled tank destroyer is seen covered with foliage moving in a field. A German soldier on top of a Panzer tank. White smoke rising across the entire background of the battlefield. German tank destroyer advancing in a town in the Ardennes region. German troops advancing into town as heavy smoke rises from bombed areas. German infantry crouching in a field near a house. Soldiers crawling on hands and knees as they engage in house-to-house fighting. German soldiers standing on top of an open turret shooting with their guns. German soldiers lying low in a field with a burning tank behind them. A German soldier fires a Panzerfaust anti-tank rocket launcher. German troops moving up town. A huge explosion next to a barn. Tank destroyers and camouflaged half-track armored personnel carrier moving forward as they are followed by infantry; a burning United States truck is seen. German forces advance in bombed out town; one of the soldiers is holding a Panzerfaust. They jump through a destroyed brick wall. U.S. Army soldiers upon capture by German forces. Captured Allied soldier prisoners of war coming out of a house with their hands in the air. Some of the soldiers surrender with a white flag. Captured Allied troops gathered in town square. Burned and destroyed Allied tanks. An upturned tank. A knocked out American tank with "America First" stenciled on its side. Two German soldiers inspect the hole on the side of the tank. Soldiers surround a captured Jeep. A soldier with a bloodied face uses the field phone to make a call. SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, the 4 Star Commander of the German 6th Panzer Army arrives in the scene. Dietrich steps out from his staff car. Dietrich watch German troops marching past him. German infantry troops moving along with military trucks and vehicles. Some of the troops bring bicycles. A German soldier looks up as a V-1 flying bomb passes overhead. A rifle stuck on the ground with its butt facing up near a Browning M1917 machine gun. Dead United States soldiers lying amidst destroyed weapons and equipment. Smoke rises from a burned U.S. tank. Captured M3 Stuart tanks and a M3 half-track lined up in a field.
Views of facilities aboard the icebreaker, UsS Burton Island (AGB-1) devoted to health and welfare of her crew. extra roomy bunks for the crew; Sailors making use of the ample sink and shower facilities. A sailor shaving. Crew members lining up to eat in the ship's dining facility. The ship's dentist taking a bite wing X-ray of a sailor's teeth; a sailor having blood pressure checked; and a pharmicist preparing a prescription, in the ship's well equipped medical facility. Corpsman placing instruments into an autoclave for sterilization. Physician using portable X-ray machine to examine sailor's injury. Sailors at work in the ship's laundry, equipped with automatic washer and semiautomatic pressing machine. Sailors making personal purchases in the ship's store.
French military police with motorcycles stand near a crowd of French civilians outside a church in France near the end of World War 2. U.S. Army personnel with handheld cameras take pictures of services. Parisian girl standing with a U.S. Army soldier. Military Police lined up in front of the cathedral entrance. Bishops emerge from the church. General de Gaulle leaves the church in a motorcade. French car with a military official seated inside and four stars on the pIate. French soldiers as they give rifle salutes. Church cleric talking to a French officer. Gendarmes standing among civilians and American officer standing with a WAC (Women's Army Corps) officer. British guards lined up as people emerge from the church. Guard of Honor in the fore ground. Elderly French woman and man leave the church. GIs enters the church. Russian Bishop emerges from the church and enters car. French civilians around the church including children and a young boy on the shoulders of a man.
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