Refueling from Kitty Hawk class supercarrier USS America in the Mediterranean Sea. Port beam view of USS America (CVA-66). Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG-23) along the port quarter refueling from USS America. The stern of the supercarrier. Stern view of USS America refueling USS Richard E. Byrd. Gearing-class destroyer USS William R. Rush (DD-714) off the starboard beam. The starboard quarter of USS America during the underway refueling. U.S. Navy A- 3B Skywarrior, Douglas A-4C Skyhawk and F-4B Phantom aircraft seen on the flight deck. USS Richard F. Byrd underway off the port quarter. Crewmen aboard USS William R. Rush during the refueling. A refueling hose is secured and men are in life jackets. The port side of the bow of USS Rush. The fuel line over to the forward station. Crewmen on the fantail. Wake of USS Rush in the background. A U.S. Navy UH-2A Seasprite helicopter on the flight deck. Nose of a RA-5C Vigilante aircraft in the foreground. Tail section of an F-4B Phantom aircraft. Hospital corpsmen around a helicopter with stretchers. Sailors wounded in the Israeli attacks on the USS Liberty (AGTR-5) are offloaded. Two crewmen rush up to the hatch of the helicopter with an empty stretcher. Flight deck personnel look on.
Wounded crewmen of Belmont-class technical research ship USS Liberty aboard U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk class supercarrier USS America in the Mediterranean Sea. Wounded crewmen surrounded by officers of USS America aircraft carrier. Wounded members of USS Liberty secured in stretchers on the hangar bay. Some of the wounded with crew spectators in the hangar bay. Three of the wounded on stretchers. Hospital corpsmen talk to two of the men. Some wounded with crutches stand in the background. The wounded walk out on the deck-edge elevator. A doctor and a hospital corpsman carry the wounded out on the deck- edge elevator. One man is being given intravenous by one of the hospital corpsmen. The wounded on the stretchers on the deck. Several personnel surround the wounded. An elevator rises to the flight deck level. Men taken aboard Grumman U.S. Navy C-1A Trader aircraft of VR-24 Squadron. Two hospital corpsmen carry a stretcher to the hatch-way of the C-1A aircraft. A wounded man with his medical records secured under a strap. The wounded man on the stretcher shakes hands with one of the men in dungarees. The wounded man being moved towards the hatch-way of the C-1A aircraft. One of the wounded men on a stretcher with personnel standing around. A stretcher case being put inside the C-1A aircraft. Men stand near the hatch of the C-1A aircraft. Another stretcher case being taken up to the hatch of the C-1A aircraft. The stretcher cases being secured.
Evolution of United States Air Force uniforms in the United States. A captain in a 1940 U.S. Army Air Corps uniform takes off an officer's hat and puts on a helmet in the cockpit of a United States Army Air Corps P-51 Mustang aircraft. The captain puts on a parachute. He walks up to the P-51 Mustang aircraft. He checks the propellers of the aircraft. He wears a jacket and then a parachute. He climbs into the cockpit of the aircraft. Another captain in a 1940 U.S. Army Air Corps uniform in front of a P-51 aircraft. The captain puts on a parachute.
Evolution of United States Air Force uniforms in the United States. A pilot wearing a 1957 U.S. Air Force uniform gets into the cockpit of United States Air Force F-86A Sabre aircraft. He puts on his helmet and connects an oxygen pipe. The pilot makes communication connections and closes the canopy. A pilot wearing a 1957 U.S. Air Force uniform does a preflight checking of a F-86A Sabre aircraft. He puts on a parachute and climbs into the cockpit.
A daylight raid by joint US-Canadian commandos on suspected German operation post in Anzio, Italy during World War 2. Soldiers of the First Special Service Force (called "Black Devils" by the Germans) fire rifle grenades on the building and move towards it. Other "Black Devils" give covering fire with Browning automatic rifles and Johnson machine guns for soldiers moving towards the German position. Troops use a drainage ditch to move towards the operation post. They fire bazookas, .30 caliber rifles and machine guns. A soldier fires a bazooka from behind a fence barrier.
U.S. troops land in Salerno, Italy during World War II. Wrecked aircraft on a beach. Wrecked U.S. convoy vessels. Two German aircraft fall in flames. Wounded on litters carried aboard a Landing Craft Tank at the beach.
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