View from a U.S. Marine bunker as enemy shell explodes nearby, during the siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The United States Marines in the Battle of Khe Sanh firing mortars and a 105mm howitzer from their bunker. Enemy shells exploding on the tarmac, where American Air Force C-130 aircraft are parked. Marines rushing wounded comrades on stretchers, to C-130s for evacuation. Scene shifts to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel James P. Sheehan, standing at Camp Pendleton, California. (He was a company commander in the siege at Khe Sanh.) As he describes the C-130 aircraft support operations, a contingent of marines marches past, behind him. Scene shifts to a civilian narrator standing in the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Center at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Among other things, he describes MAC support to the Tactical Air Command in Korea. Camera focuses on MAC air routes in the vicinity of the Philippines, Japan, and Korea. Next, is seen view of airfield at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, briefly at sunset, and then at night, as pilots of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing and their F-111 aircraft prepare to depart for Korea, in response to border tensions, in August, 1976, after North Korean forces killed two American officers ("Korean Axe Murder Incident" and resulting "Operation Paul Bunyan"). Ground crewman directs a taxiing F-111 using lighted wands. The F-111s takes off. One of them is seen landing after the 7 thousand mile flight to Korea, as Major Paul Malandrino,Jr. (unseen) of the 366th Wing, speaks about MAC's airlift support. A C-141 MAC aircraft is seen landing. View of a C-141 with tail doors open and its cargo of military equipment on the ramp behind it. Glimpse of a marine with rifle and earphones, guarding equipment on the airfield ramp. Closeups of F-111 aircraft taking off.
Traffic at the Place de la Concorde. People of Paris buy the local newspaper. Headline of the Internation Herald Tribune refers to the first day of the Peace Talks. it reads, "Hanoi and U.S. Negotiators in Paris; Start of Peace Talks Set for Today." The picture shows Averell Harriman and Sargent Shriver along with a 3rd U.S. delegation member (Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ?) Microphones on a table and other arrangements in the Centre De Conferences Internationales. Dignitaries enter the conference hall. Civilians and the press await the arrival of dignitaries oustside. The Vietnamese and the U.S. dignitaries arrive at the venue. Door closed as the Peace Talks begin. High view from a building patio of Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
Battle of Eniwetok during World War II. United States flag at half mast. United States soldiers and officers on a ship. Dead bodies of U.S. soldiers on stretchers. Officer reads a prayer. The U.S. flag. Soldiers salute. U.S. officers and soldiers on Landing Craft Personnel (LCP). Soldiers unload equipment from LCP. Soldiers carry wounded on a stretcher. Soldiers carry dead bodies on stretchers. Dead bodies on Island.
U.S. 7th Machine Gun Battalion in La Chapelle-sur-Chezy, France during World War I. The troops receive thanks. They stand in formation. U.S. General Joseph Theodore Dickman with a U.S. officer and the Prefet de l'Aisne with French officers thank each other. General Dickman speaks to the Prefet de l'Aisne. General Dickman stands with a man. A French officer smiles.
U.S. 5th Marine Regiment in Gondrecourt, France during World War I. A bridge in the village. Trucks loaded with U.S. troops cross the bridge. A sign reads 'Welcome'. U.S. troops wave to the villagers. Women stand outside their houses and look at the soldiers. The troops with rifles on their shoulders march on the streets. Men hold flags of France and United Sates. A soldier carries a young girl on his shoulder.
Soldiers of U.S. 5th Marine, 2nd Battalion with French Second Army soldiers at the Third Bourmont Training Area in France during World War I. U.S. troops in trenches. The troops enter a bunker. The soldiers come out of the bunker. The soldiers are wearing coats and hats due to cold weather. A U.S. officer plays with a dog. The troops carry guns with bayonets. A bayonet drill. The soldiers in trenches with bayonets in their hands. They march forward for the drill. They move out of the trenches and put the bayonet in a dummy. The soldiers practice again. The dummies are hanged from a rope. The troops practice on the dummies. A dummy in the center and the troops practice on it.
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