Tea harvesting in Taiwan. A group of tea plantation workers picking tea. The tea pickers wear conical hats as they work. IFC area on a hill with radar tracking antenna used for the first Nike-Hercules missile service in Taiwan. Chinese woman picking tea.
The first Nike-Hercules missile service in Taiwan. A sign reads 'US Army GMAT MAAG Division A’. Sergeant Kung, Sergent Toppie Curlie, Sergent yin and Sergent First Class Robert P. Kirk, Major Chen and Captain Emil S. Pope stand in pathway and discuss about the Nike-Hercules missile. An American and a Chinese military officer walk away. Three Chinese flags on poles: flag of the Armed forces, flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and flag of the Army. Nike missile monument with dragon and the Republic of China emblem on it as American and Chinese officers walk past it. Officers get in a jeep and drive away. Direction sign in Chinese and English. Chinese military police on guard.
First Nike-Hercules missile placed in operation by Chinese Army in Taiwan. View of U.S. drone aircraft MQM-61A as technicians work on it at a missile site. Drone aircraft being launched from the missile site.
Three German soldiers with explosive laden remote controlled motor boats. One man shows radio controls used to guide the boats from one control boat. The boatmen embark, one man aboard the pilot boat and the other two on explosive boats. Boats underway in water. German soldier aims the boat at target and jumps into water. A man works on radio controls as he guides the boat to the target. Scenes of a German "Hai" human torpedo. The 40 foot long Torpedo, with operator in bubble cockpit, is lowered into river by a crane and motors away. (World War II period).
U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Food crates in a sling being lowered . The Marines unload food crates from landing crafts on a beach. Signs on the crates read 'Spinach', 'Tomato juice'. The Marines load supply crates onto a Japanese truck. A bomb being taken off a landing barge.
A United States campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in flight. The B-17 aircraft land at an airstrip in a jungle. An aircraft taxis after landing. Various signs on the fuselage of the aircraft read 'Boomerang' , 'Skylark' , 'Spook'. An aircraft taxis on a field.
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