A farmer driving a tractor sprayer in the United States. The farmer parks his tractor sprayer in front of a garden shed. The farmer inspects bottles of pesticide. Safety precaution written on a pesticide bottle carry a warning that reads “DO NOT USE WITHIN 10-DAYS OF HARVEST”. Various labels and safety instructions on pesticide containers. Photographs of scientists researching on pesticide development in laboratories. An entomologist holding an insect cage to inspect specimens. A chemist inspects a petri dish. United States agricultural officials and experts deliberate as part of a pesticide’s registration process. A farmer fills a sprayer with water. A woman feeds an infant with Gerber baby food. An Afghan Hound dog eats from pet bowl. Scientists and pesticide manufacturers talk inside a laboratory. A can of Compound 776. State scientists test Compound 776 inside a laboratory. Nozzle spraying pesticide. Plant specimens are sprayed with Compound 776 pesticide during testing. A scientist taking notes while inspecting crops during a fieldwork. Another scientist spraying Compound 776 onto plants. A man with a folder labeled “Labels Compound 776” and a data book “Pesticide Petition Compound 776”. A manufacturer submits pesticide registration petition to the Department of Agriculture or the USDA. The “Application for registration of economic poisons” document. USDA Pesticides Regulation Division official examines the pesticide registration of Compound 776. The official opens the data book of Compound 776. A scientist uses rabbits for animal testing. Scientist treats a rabbit’s shaved skin with chemicals. A man visits the United States Food and Drug Authority (FDA). Pesticide manufacturer submits a pesticide registration petition to the FDA in Washington DC. An FDA officer inspects the pesticide petition. FDA scientists probe the residue levels of Compound 776 inside a laboratory. A scientist points to a graph depicting the residue data plotted against time. FDA authorities study industry data on a pesticide. Bottles, jars, and containers stored in shelves of a laboratory. Laboratory rats inside cages react to pesticide. A chemist working in a laboratory. A Federal Register journal of the United States. Camera zooms to “Food and Drug Administration” in the front page of the Federal Register. A “Notice of Registration Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act” from the USDA. Printing press printing pesticide labels. A truck transporting pesticide enters Maryland state line border. Agricultural pesticides and a weighing scale displayed in shelf.
German Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist carrying a baton comes out from a building, talks briefly with U.S. Army Major General Willard S. Paul, and gets into an American half ton truck in Mitterfels,Germany, one day after his capture by American forces. The truck, with Major General Paul in the back seat, is driven away. It stops and Field Marshal von Kleist salutes Generalleutnant Josef Russwurm, Inspector of Army Signals Troops, who was also captured by the U.S. Army 26th Infantry Division. Rußwurm seen beside the truck. The truck drives away again. (World War II period)
U.S. paratroopers of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment (511th PIR), 11th Airborne Division, conduct a combat parachute drop to reinforce American troops engaging Japanese forces at Tagayatay Ridge, on Luzon, the Philippines, in World War 2. View from inside a C-47 transport aircraft, looking through its open rear door, at another C-47 taxiing on an airfield ramp. It displays "X44" stenciled below its cockpit. Brief aerial view of the airfield from an airplane overhead. Several C-47s seen flying in formation. Closeups of some C-47s. Next, paratroopers of the U.S. 11th Airborne Division are seen jumping from C-47s. Their chutes open rapidly after leaving the aircraft. Some of the chutes of troopers, jumping from aircraft forward of the camera plane, pass very near as they descend. Aerial view looking upward at parachutes descending with clouds behind them. Glimpse from cockpit of camera plane shows numerous parachutes deployed from C-47s some distance ahead. Closer view from below and left of three C-47s shows paratroopers exiting open aircraft doors. More parachutes seen from above, as they descend. View from C-47 cockpit of five others in formation, at the same altitude,ahead. Below them, dozens of parachutes are seen descending toward the ground. Inside a C-47, several troopers stand at the open rear door and one helps another jump from the plane. Several paratroopers passing the right wing of the camera plane as they descend.
Opening scene shows sign at Fort Monroe, Virginia, Headquarters of the United States Continental Army Command. U.S. Army soldiers come pouring out of their barracks and assemble in formation as non-commissioned officers inspect their personal gear. Inspectors look over closely parked armored vehicles.Troops rush to board CH-47 Helicopter transports. Sign identifying Headquarters United states Strike Command. Views of Exercise Delawar, a United States-Iran joint armed forces combat readiness operation conducted in April 1964 in Iran. (Delawar is a Persian word meaning courageous.) Paratroopers lined up and inspecting their gear as they ready to board through rear door of a transport aircraft.View of Pilot and Copilot in cockpit. Paratroopers jumping from the aircraft. Formation of U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft dropping paratroopers, with chutes clearly visible as they descend. View of troopers exiting rear cargo door of C-130 aircraft. Ground view of paratroopers landing on Iranian desert. Some set up field artillery pieces, others deploy on foot, and some ride in trucks pulling artillery pieces. Change of scene to North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Combat Operations Center. Inside, General John Koehler Gerhart, Commander of NORAD, sits at a deck in a control room with several other officers. Next, officers and non-commissioned officers, e.g. a Master Sergeant, who regularly work in the center are seen at their stations. Army Air Defense personnel run from their ready room to man batteries of Nike-Hercules missiles. An air defense radar site, part of the early warning system. Missiles of the Nike-Hercules battery being raised to firing positions.
D-Day in area of Saint Marcouf, France, during World War II. Remains of a fallen German soldier are buried. Paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division moving cautiously through areas of the town, and later moving through the Marmion Farm near Ravenoville.. Soldiers of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division pass several ot the paratroopers near farm buildings. Paratroopers gather around a German tracked motorcycle. A group of 101st Airborne troopers (Screaming Eagles) pose holding a large Nazi flag. One of the troopers brandishes a large sword.
During the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. British troops disembark from landing crafts at Sword Beach and move in lines towards the beachhead. Military trucks and tanks are seen on the shore as smoke emerges from a hill on the beach. Various wrecked building on shore. British troops carrying equipment and a bicycle ashore. In last 15 seconds scene shifts to landing of U.S. 1st Infantry troops at Omaha beach. View of waters edge from higher up beach. Gear and bodies floating in water. U.S. Army soldiers coming ashore as several are struck by German machine gun fire and drop to the ground. (World War II period).
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