During the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, a Japanese A6M5 Zero aircraft carries out one of the first kamikaze attacks of World War II, diving and attacking the U.S. Navy Escort Carrier USS Suwanee (CVE-27) in the Leyte Gulf of the Philippines. Clouds of black smoke billow from the hit carrier. Some Navy sailors from the hit USS Suwanee in the water, blown overboard by the explosion, approaching USS Sangamon (CVE-26), also in Task Unit 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") for assistance. USS Sangamon underway.
American soldier fire M-16 rifle behind wall. Army ambulance parked at the end of alley. Soldier at M-60 machine gun nearby. UH-1B helicopters fly over. U.S. soldiers in jeeps passing streets. V-100 armored commando car drives into alley. Soldiers fire rifles from behind cover of concrete wall. Soldiers rush forward to wrecked truck and V-100 in alley.
Interiors of U.S. Embassy. Personnel examine the damage to the facility after attack during the Tet Offensive of January 1968. Bullet holes in wall. Embassy clock stopped at 3:03. Soldiers check Embassy grounds and cameraman takes pictures. Street and wrecked house. (Vietnam War period).
Main control room at Fylingdales Moor Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Royal Air Force officer and Lieutenant Colonel Moore at two consoles, both conferring. Lieutenant Colonel Moore uses a red phone. Air Force and Royal Air Force enlisted men seated, and RAF squadron leader standing behind them. Tape drive operating in background.
Radomes, search antennas, and scanner buildings at Thule Air Base in Greenland. Clouds moving in front of Ballistic Missile Early Warning System site. Two men at consoles in darkened tracking control room. One of them using phone.
27th Infantry Division marching in fields. Troops decorated by U.S. Army General. Crowd assembled at the event. Troops marching in fields.
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