Pedestrians with umbrellas cross the road on Auburn Avenue. A well dressed elderly blind African-American man uses a cane on the street. Cars parked at Joe Harris Garage, a parking lot. A man exits the car. The Atlanta Life Insurance Company building (142-148 Auburn Avenue N E Atlanta, GA 30303). Sign reads “Private Parking Atlanta Life Insurance Company”.
Enola Gay atomic bomb mission over Hiroshima, Japan during World War 2. The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, prepares to leave for the Hiroshima mission. Army Armed Forces maintenance men and Enola Gay crew prepare the Enola Gay in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, checking their watches as the glance at the horizon. Maintenance men check bomb bay doors before closing. Pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets looks out of cockpit window of Enola Gay. Nose art of Enola Gay is seen. Close up of controls with hand show "starter" and "engine primer." Enola Gay engine starts and one of it propellers turns. The Enola Gay takes off from North Field, in the Northern Mariana Islands. Point of view through B-29 cockpit window as plane speeds down runway. Motion picture cameraman films the take off. The Enola Gay seen overhead as it leaves for Japan. Aerial View of Iwo Jima Island in Japan. The Enola Gay begins slow climb to bombing altitude over Iwo Jima. Crew member, possibly Tibbets, uses a pair of binoculars. Aerial view of Hiroshima. Enola Gay crew check instruments last time before dropping. The Enola Gay begins its bomb run. Crew bombardier turning a dial on a bomb site. View of Enola Gay with bomb bay doors open. Moving gauge pointer as bomb is dropped and seen exiting bomb bay. The Enola Gay banks away from Hiroshima at high speed. Aerial view in color of mushroom cloud forming over Hiroshima after the atomic bomb detonates in the city. (This actually shows the Nagasaki bomb blast from August 9, 1945, not the Hiroshima blast, despite the statements of the narrator in this edited film). Gigantic mushroom cloud from atomic bombing.
Cargo with attached to olive green parachutes descending into Khe Sanh drop zone during the Vietnam War. Three United States Marines packing a cargo parachute into a bag. "REED" is written on the helmet of one of them. An African American Marines untangle parachute lines and then pack cargo parachute into bag. Marines packing camouflage parachutes. A Marine moves a cargo crate using a rough terrain forklift. A Marine smoking a cigarette helps as the forklift lifts piles crates together.
The Ming Tombs in Beijing, China. Stone elephants adorn the Spirit Way, the road leading to the Ming Tombs. A gate at the Ming Tombs. A white man in sunglasses walks in front of The Soul Tower at Changling Tomb. Chinese men in white shirts stand in front of the Chang Ling Ming tomb A man throws trash into a wooden trash bin. Shirtless laborers wearing coolie hats lift a stone block at a reservoir construction site near the tombs. Woman and man construction workers push wheelbarrows as others labor in the background. Men tamping down soil using a primitive compactor. Forms for a concrete arched bridge. A Chinese laborer smiles. A soldier in uniform worker laughs during the Great Leap Forward.
Chinese farmers plowing a field at a commune north of Beijing. The farmers digging furrows deeper with shovels. "Plow deep to bury the American aggressor is the slogan,” says the narrator. Carpenters sawing wood outdoors. A man strips bark from lumber using a draw shave tool. Workers repairing roof of commune building. Chinese women and children picking vegetables, harvesting crops. Farmers examine heads of Chinese Cabbage. A blind folded donkey powers an irrigation pump. Chinese woman farmers threshing millet with help from children. Harvested corn hanging on poles and husked corn in baskets. “Their corn is very poor, some of it is fairly good.” says the narrator.
Iranian soldiers firing mortars and machine guns during a public demonstration. Iranian civilians and children watch a weapons demonstration by the Iranian Army. An Iranian Army officer uses the telephone to communicate orders to soldiers. Soldiers fire mortars on command. Soldiers in desert foxholes firing mortars. A general watch the demonstration from a pair of binoculars. Night shots, antiaircraft guns firing tracers into mountainside. Explosion on base of a mountain. An Iranian girl watches the demonstration with her family. Iranian soldiers firing with machine guns. Three soldiers demonstrate a Browning M1919 machine gun. Anti-aircraft guns fires at base of a mountain. Soldiers firing with Browning machine guns in Iran. More explosions at the base of a mountain. A soldier firing with rifle. Antiaircraft guns firing tracers into mountainside at night. Tracer ammunition flash as they are fired into the mountainside.
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