African American people get health treatment at a mobile U.S. County Health Clinic van in Darien, Georgia. African American men and women lined for the check up in a medical van of U.S. Government 1383 Public Health Service. A doctor and a nurse medically examine patients inside the van, using stethoscope and other instruments. Nurse checks an African American woman and gives her an innoculation or vaccination in arm.
U.S. reinforcements seen arriving on beachhead at Normandy, the day after D-Day, during World War 2. A six-wheeled amphibious truck (DUKW), with U.S. troops aboard, moves across sand of Normandy beachhead. Soldiers and vehicles make their way across the sand. Landing Craft Utility, number 851 is beached. CTU 380 is painted on her side. A heavy mobile crane moves on the beach nearby. U.S. troops march ashore, past a large triangle sign posted in the sand. Various landing craft seen in background. Jeeps move along with the troops, including one in which a Colonel is seen standing.
Forty thousand United States soldiers and National Guardsman of the third Army in military combined arms training maneuvers at Camp Shelby,and Desoto National Forest, Wiggins, Mississippi. U.S. Army Air Corps BT-9 Yale aircraft flying over tents and seen flying overhead. U.S. Army written on the wings of the planes. Troops moving in trucks and running across a field. Teams of horses pulling field artillery. Horses cooling off in canal water after the exercise. U.S. Army M2 Light tanks in maneuvers. Gun crews firing machine guns and field artillery pieces.
On a sketch of the Texas School Book Depository Building 6th floor, a narrator points out locations pertinent to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Camera shows stacks of boxes near windows on the 6th floor of the Building, as it pans across the scene. It focuses on a reconstructed scene of boxes near the window with Elm Street below to the right. A Secret Service agent is shown sitting in a position believed the same as the assassin and pointing in the direction that his rifle would have been.Views out the window of traffic moving on streets below. Next, an open convertible car is seen accompanied by two motorcycle police, simulating the movement of the President's motorcade as it turned from Main onto Houston Street. Narrator notes that next turn, from Houston onto Elm Street is quite sharp and driven very slowly. Narrator describes the shots fired as the car retraces specific locations on the route. Photograph of reenactment made for the President's Commission, using the Secret Service followup car. It shows telescopic sight cross hairs as the assassin would see them. Next the car being driven in the current reenactment is viewed through a four power, 18mm Ordnance Optical Incorporated rifle scope, like the one used by the assassin.That last part of the film is shown again in slow motion.
United States Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles and Korean Minister, Pyun Young T'ao, sign the US-Korean Mutual Defense Treaty . After signing the papers they shake hands. Dulles is seen as he leaves the building, in the company of U.S. officials, including John Cabot Lodge who accompanies him in his departing car. Others exit the building including the U.S. Commanding General in Korea, Maxewll Taylor.who enters his own car and departs.
Tail and crushed wings of American B-17 bomber, one of several shot down over the Germany-Holland border, during World War 2. Bodies of two U.S. airmen lying on the ground next to the debris. Remains of crashed B-17, Serial number 42-39822, of the U.S. 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, which was shot down by German FW-190s while returning from a mission to Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany, on January 11, 1944. A fuselage from downed allied warplane being hauled away on a truck. A junkyard filled with American warplane parts, stacked by type, engines in one pile, tails in another, etc. One vertical fin, marked with the 'triangle A' of the 91st Bomb Group, is from B-17G, tail number 42-37737, named "Tennessee Toddy" of the 401st Bomb Squadron. It crash landed after losing two engines, on 10 October 1943, at Brocklanderweg, near Apeldoorn, Holland. Two U.S. Army Air Corps prisoners being interrogated by a German officer. Group of United States airmen prisoners of war, apparently showing personal identifications (dog tags) to a German interrogator.
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