U.S. Air Force aircraft fly some Berlin children to West Germany for summer vacation during Operation Kinderlift in Germany. German children with their parents at an airport. A young German child with a tag around his neck. An officer holds a German boy and he cries. A young German boy stands by. A woman holding her son. The U.S. officer along with the German children board a U.S. aircraft. The parents of the German children wave as their children depart for vacation holidays in West Germany during the Cold War. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The children seated inside the aircraft. Two boys play chess. A boy eats banana. Another looks through binoculars.
U.S. Army soldiers coming ashore from D-Day landing crafts during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II. View of some 5th Engineering Battalion soldiers rescued from a wrecked landing craft during the invasion. View of a wrecked landing craft. A landing craft on the shore. U.S. army medics treat the rescued soldiers. Landing craft of LST-51 reaches shore and U.S. soldiers come ashore from the landing craft. A view of the troops on Omaha beach strewn with gear. Some injured soldiers with wound dressings grab inflatables and board the landing craft at shore. Landing Craft Tank 29 (LCT-29) seen at shore. Heavy wind and surf pins a landing craft at shore as it works to free itself and return to ship.
U.S. Navy Air VP-6 Patrol Squadron in North Korea during the Korean War. Aviation crew members check nose wheel of U.S. Navy Lockheed P2V Neptune. A U.S. aircraft parked in the background. The crew members work on the wheel. A crew member cleans the bomb bay doors of the aircraft.
A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron at Ramstein Air Base and NATO command base in Germany. A truck leaving the missile instantiation. A semi trailer loaded with large boxes entering the missile instantiation. Matador assembly and testing area in the background. A matador wing being mated to fuselage and jet engine being lifted by a crane from truck. The crane operator and an airman give directions. Enlisted men push missile guidance shelf on a trailer into the building. Fuselage of Matador on zero-length launcher in the background. Matador engine run up test. A hand flipping switch on test console. A covered Matador on mobile zero-length launcher moves along a road in a wooded area and parks beside four other covered Matadors on launchers. Several rows of warheads in armament storage area. A convoy of trucks transporting war heads in Germany. The entrance gate to a city in Germany. Two German civilians pull a wagon on a street. Trucks, trailers, truck mounted crane and mobile zero-length launcher with covered Matador on a ground. TM-61A in launch position in clearing. The entrance to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. U.S. 12th Air Force Headquarters building at Ramstein AB. A command car stops. Two officers leave the car and walk up the steps. A Military Policeman stands outside a War Room. A 'War Room' sign on the door. Officers seated around a table in the War Room. Lt. Colonel Mulling speaking and using a pointer at a wall map. Local and FEAF clocks in the background. Two airmen using computers. A target folder is handed to a personnel and filed in safe. USAF (United States Air Force) Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star parked on a ramp. The pilot and the instructors board the aircraft. TM-61A in launch position on a launcher.
A film report depicts the role of U.S. Navy chaplains during the war in Vietnam. Navy Chaplain, Lieutenant Vincent R. Capodanno, USNR(ChC) is seen sitting on the sand with several U.S. Marines. He smokes a cigarette and talks with one of them about a member of their unit who was severely wounded by a grenade during an enemy ambush. Elsewhere, Chaplain Capodanno is seen talking with other Marines about the war and about their homes and loved ones. He approaches a marine seated on sand bags, who shares news from his personal letter. U.S. Marines in combat gear are seen on a patrol in a Vietnamese village. The chaplain talks to a marine about the operation and his particular assignment. The marine answers his question. A close up of chaplain Capodanno.
U.S. Infantry troops in Fraulautern, Germany during World War II. An M-36 tank destroyer of the 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion rolls down a street. The damaged buildings on either side of the street. U.S. 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion troops move through snow covered street. A small group of soldiers in a village street walk past wrecked buildings. Three cows walk through street in the background. The damaged buildings. Smoke rises in the background. The ruins of the bombed buildings. Troops climb over the ruins. A group of soldiers from U.S. 95th Infantry Division carrying smoke pots. Shells hit a pillbox in town. Smoke rises . The troops run on the snow covered street.
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