Air raid by U.S. jet fighter bomber aircraft during Vietnam War. U.S. jet fighter bomber aircraft (A-4 Skyhawk and F-4 Phantom, according to narrator) in flight and during attacks North Vietnam Communication and boat repair facilities. United States aircraft strafe and bomb bridges and storage areas. Smoke column rises from explosions.
Mass burial at the site of the Gardelegen massacre, in Gardelegen, Germany, late in World War II. View of the barn on the Isenschnibbe estate in Gardelegen where 1016 prisoners had been barricaded by Nazi forces and civilian accomplices on April 13, 1945, and then died after the barn was set on fire. German civilians walking among dead bodies outside the barn. Germany civilians walk carrying stretchers. They place burned bodies of Nazi atrocity victims on the stretchers. They carry the bodies to burial grounds. (Many of the dead were concentration camp prisoners and slave laborers in transit from the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp and the Hannover-Stöcken Concentration Camp. The massacre was discovered by the U.S. Army 102nd Infantry Division when they entered the area on April 14, 1945, finding corpses in the barn and in nearby hastily dug mass graves. The U.S. Army ordered German civilians in the area to transport the bodies and dig graves for proper burial, from April 21-25, 1945.)
U.S. publishers and editors visit Reims, France during World War II. U.S. Army General Omar Nelson Bradley at a headquarter building. Newspapermen walk through a prisoner of war (POW) camp area. They visit reclamation and spare parts maintenance headquarters. Vehicles parked outside the building. Trees in the background. An official briefs the newspapermen. They visit the POW enclosure and a cathedral. The visitors get in cars and move.
A city tour of Washington DC. A U.S. Army soldier of "The Old Guard" seated in a bus as it drives through the streets during a city tour. The U.S. Capitol building. The Statue of Freedom atop the dome of the Capitol. The White House and the National Archives Building. The Department of Justice building. The Statue of Nathan Hale. The officer and other tourists look at the Statue of Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial. The Washington Monument. The Statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.
Distant wide view of the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia, as seen from across a marina of the Potomac River. Men and women employees, some in uniform and some civilians, arrive at the Pentagon which is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Employees walking in corridors of the Pentagon to go to offices. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, Staff Communications Office. Lieutenant Colonel P H Brownfield seated at a desk in the office. He passes on important military messages to crew to keep in contact with the Chief of Staff. The message is delivered via a conveyor system on the interior perimeter wall of the offices. A soldier locates a file in a filing cabinet.. He opens the drawer and takes out a file.
Combat troops of the Military District of Washington respond to practice alarm during Cold War period. Missiles on launch pads at the Nike Hercules Missile sites. During a practice exercise Army soldiers go underground and close a hatch as a siren blows. The missiles in Washington DC are raised to be ready for enemy attack. African American member of the Old Guard receives phone call and alerts fellow soldiers. Combat troops of the "Old Guard" at Fort Myer, get up from their beds and respond to an alarm to defend the city. The soldiers pick up their weapons and equipment. U.S. Army tanks take up positions with the Pentagon building in the background. Views of the U.S. Capitol at night.
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