United States Air Force officers discuss a map with an U.S. Army officer at a control room in An Khe Air Base, Vietnam. The officers discuss and point out key locations on the map for air-strike. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army's Major General John Norton disembarks from an army UH-1D helicopter at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam. He stands beside the helicopter and talks. He explains the importance of the Forward Air Controller and Artillery observers during the air-support operations. Another U-1D on ground in the background with U.S. troops aboard it. (Vietnam War period).
SH-3A helicopter flying above Guantanamo Bay surface during DesRon2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) hunter-killer exercises in the Atlantic Ocean. A U.S. Naval Destroyer, likely either the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) or the USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway. An S-2E aircraft is seen in flight, flying low over the ocean surface with mad boom extended. It drops a torpedo which splashes into the water. Signal flare seen burning on water, with smoke rising upward.
USS Charles P Cecil (DD-835) underway in Guantanamo Bay during ASW (anti-submarine) exercises as part of U.S. Navy Destroyer Squadron 2. SH-3A helicopter hovers above water surface and dips sonar. USS Charles Cecil underway. Another SH-3A in the background. USS Charles Cecil exposes port beam. SH-3As in flight over water. SH-3A picks up port beam of USS Charles Cecil. SH-3A hovers over water. SH-3As dip sonar. Port beam view of USS Charles Cecil. S-2E in flight far off bow. SH-3As hover. S-2E flies by in the background. S-2E in flight over water. SH-3As dip sonar. S-2E flies by in the mid background. Wake and aft deck of Destroyer USS Wallace Lind (DD-703), also part of Destroyer Squadron 2. SH-3A flies over wake in the background.
American Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677) arriving, with other Destroyer Escorts, off the coast of Bermuda, during World War 2. (The Destroyer Escort USS Dionne, DE-261, appears in one scene.) Crewmen at bow of the Frament drop anchor into the water. Sailors jump in water for a swim. Sailors in uniforms being reviewed by officers aboard the deck, before taking boats to shore, on liberty. View of a busy street in Bermuda. Two sailors are asked for their IDs by a U.S. Shore Patrolman. Pedestrians on the street. Bermudian Policeman directing traffic. Sailors in uniforms travel on bicycles and in horse- drawn carriage. The Commander of the Shakedown Operation inspects crews of the Destroyer Escorts before they head out to sea from Bermuda. At this point, a montage of naval engagements is seen including sailors firing at attacking airplanes, aircraft attacking ships, depth charge being launched from a destroyer escort and exploding.
Colonel James J Moran, Lieutenant Colonel Carl P McNally, Chaplain and other officers at a tent area in Vietnam. U.S. troops form chow-line outside a mess tent. Soldiers served food on the Thanksgiving Day. Food in a tray. Soup filled in disposable glasses. Soldiers in chow lines take food. (Vietnam War period).
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