Elements of three U.S. Marine Battalions land at Chu Lai in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Marines trudge over beach carrying weapons. Two cranes being driven on a beach. Marines on a crane.
Annual matches of the National Rifle Association of America at Camp Perry in Ohio, United States. Shooters at the firing line shot at the target. Men sit and mark scores on a board. Team members from different parts of the United States sit at the fire line and fire at the targets. U.S. Corporal R A McAllister,Co 6th Engineers in prone position fire at the target from firing line. Colonel Alexander J Macnab Commanding Officer of Camp Perry talks to another man at the firing line. Participants in prone position fire from a .22 caliber rifle at a target from 50 yards distance.
Crew aboard Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) in Dong Ha, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. LCM-8 passes. A LCM-8 underway. Coxswain of the LCM-8 guiding craft into area at Cau Viet. A LCM-8 underway at a slow speed. A fork lift loads crate aboard LCM-8. Operator of forklift. Crate being dropped on deck of LCM-8. Operator backs fork lift away. Supplies being loaded onto a LCM. Cargo in tank deck area of LCM-8. LCM-8 underway in river. A man in the foreground. Wheel and floor gauges at foot of a coxswain. He moves wheel with feet. Coxswain uses feet to steer LCM-8. Cargo stacked on LCM-8. Two men in the foreground. Coxswain lites up cigarette. Ramp at Dong Ha. A LCM-8 in the foreground. Ramp of the LCM-8 being lowered to beach area at Dong Ha. Cargo in hold of LCM-8. Several men stand nearby. LCM-8 at ramp. Forklift moves aboard for off loading crates.
People work in shops in India. Men make bicycle handles in a workshop. A shopkeeper sits near the bicycle handles. The workers repair radio in a shop. A worker sews on a cloth. A man uses a chisel to make stone carvings. A woman strings beads. Masks kept in a shop. Two men sit in a shop. A man weighs tomatoes in a balance. A man shaves the hair of a horse.
A film titled 'Paratroopers Maneuver' about the British and U.S. paratroopers training in England during World War 2. Formation of Allied C-47 Skytrain in flight. Paratroopers in training seen in aircraft as they prepare to jump from the aircraft over RAF Ramsbury (USAAF Station 469) in Wiltshire county. Paratrooper soldiers inside the aircraft hookup to static lines. The jump master is photographed, by a camera strapped to his chest, as he descends with a cigar in mouth. Unusual view of face of paratrooper as he descends in mid air before parachute opens, and then relief and smile on his face as the chute opens and slows his descent.The paratroopers jump, descend and hit ground. The static lines are pulled back into the aircraft. Several paratroopers are pulled by strong breeze across the ground, before they can spill their chutes. One paratrooper being treated for injury suffered from collision with another trooper. Preparations made inside an aircraft to drop supplies. Supplies in parachutes dropped and land on ground. (These shots are taken flying just to the north of Ramsbury village and looking down on the woods and fields that are divided by Hilldrop Lane.) The airdrop of supplies is made by C-47 aircraft. The supplies descend and hit ground. (The C-47 aircraft in low flight formation drop the supplies in fields to the east of Hilldrop Lane just north of Ramsbury.)
Draftees are trained for army in the United States during World War II. A U.S. officer recruits men for army. Men including farmers, fishermen, clerks and factory workers walk in lines. Men run on ground with wooden guns as they undergo training. Men drive trucks. Men learn to load guns. The draftees are inducted and trained. Men from different United Nations member countries including America, Russia, China, German, Czech Republic, Greece, India, Dutch, Philippines and French get trained and prepared for war.
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