Aerial views of airfield in Illesheim, Germany, at the end of World War II. Numerous single-engine airplanes are parked in various places on the airfield. Among them are P-47s of the U.S. 9th Air Force. View from above of a U.S. P-47 taking off from the field. Flights of P-47s fly overhead and break formation to land.
United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam to guard the area around Danang Air Base. The U.S. Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 7th Fleet land on a beach in South Vietnam. Ships advance towards the beach. Vietnamese soldiers stand on the beach with a rifle. An LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked) rolls onto the beach. U.S. Marines run on the beach. An LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized ) comes on the shore. The LVTP-5 driven on the beach. Marines run across the beach. Several marines lay against an embankment. Other marines stand on the beach. (Vietnam War period).
Lines stretched between the U.S. battleship, USS North Carolina (BB-55), and a destroyer, to facilitate transfer of personnel. Heavy smoke billowing from the USS Wasp (CV-7) after she is struck by three torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-19, in World War 2. A U.S. destroyer moves into position near the Wasp. Views, from a nearby ship, of the Wasp, listing, and of severe damage to her hull. Oil burns on the water ahead of Wasp. Lines extend from her deck and sides as her crew abandons ship. Fire and explosions continue and consume the USS Wasp.
Aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) underway in the South China Sea. Taiwan Lieutenant General Chiang Kai-Shek visits the USS Wasp. U.S. helicopter HO3S Dragonfly lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. United States Marine Corps honor guard in the foreground. U.S. Marine Corps HRS-1 helicopter lands on the flight deck. Two United States Navy enlisted men place a gangway to the helicopter door. General Sun Li Jen and Lieutenant General Chae Chia Hsiang inspect the honor guard.
Wreckage in and around Ploesti (Ploiesti), following air raids by U.S. 15th Air Force bombers in World War 2. Sign hanging down from bombed out building reads, in Romanian: "Coafor. Frizer" (Hairdresser. Barber). Thick Plume of smoke rises in background. A car passes the camera.Men work to clean up debris inside steel skeleton of a wrecked hangar-like building. From a rooftop, camera pans over various damaged buildings. The Teleajen River is visible in the background. Heavy black smoke billows from bomb strikes on an industrial site. Rubble fills the foreground. A church building stands (apparently undamaged) in the midst of fire and smoke. Vehicles pass a massive cloud of smoke rising from inside a fenced enclave. Fire and smoke billow from some sort of storage tank. Fire hoses seen pouring water on the scene. Suddenly a large burst of fire and smoke rises and then the scene is engulfed in black smoke. Firefighters using hoses on fires in an industrial complex. Smoke stacks and oil derrick seen.
U.S. soldiers at Jungle Operations Training Center (JOTC) in Fort Sherman, Panama. A United States soldier stands alone. A field in the background. U.S. troops board a Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM). Buildings and trees in view. The troops aboard the landing craft cross a river. The troops stand and talk in groups. A jungle area in distance.
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