Orville Wright and U.S. Army aviator Frank Purdy Lahm, the first army passenger, test the "Wright Flyer" at Fort Myer, Virginia. U.S. Army soldiers turn the Wright Flyer. They pull the aircraft to a field. A headquarters building in the background.
View from US Navy warship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), as it escorts the SS George Washington liner with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson aboard on his voyage to France for the Paris Peace Conference, shortly after the end of World War I. Sailors and officers on the USS Pennsylvania in the Atlantic Ocean. Guns mounted aboard the USS Pennsylvania are fired. Views of the SS George Washington in the background, and of other ships in the escort group. Water sweeps over the deck from heavy seas. The President's ship is placed at a position astern. People stand near the railings of the USS Pennsvlvania. A ship in the background. View of bow of ship rising and falling in heavy seas during voyage.
U.S. Constabulary force troopers on duty at the Kaster Bridge in Wiesbaden, Germany. The Kaster Bridge across the Rhine River connects the U.S. and the French Zones. The troopers and German policemen examine vehicles crossing the bridge. The police examines people loaded on a truck. Examination of papers of pedestrians and the vehicles over the bridge. The Rhine River in the background.
U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base (Korat RTAFB) in Thailand. President Johnson pins a DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross ) on Lieutenant George H. McKinney Jr.. He shakes hand with United States air Force (USAF) personnel. General William Wallace Momyer thanks the President for his visit and makes an announcement for his speech. The Presidential Seal on a lectern. President Johnson addresses US Air Force personnel from a podium, regarding their efforts in the Vietnam War. He expresses great respect, admiration and affection for air force personnel for their service in the task assigned to them to bring peace in Asia. He thanks them for their role in the air power effort that is effective against North Vietnamese guerilla warfare tactics.
U.S. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment soldiers advance for the invasion of Corregidor in the Philippine Islands during World War II. A crew fires a 37mm anti tank gun from inside a building through a window of a building in Ermita district of Manila. An M-4 tank advances. Soldiers take position and fire artillery. Smoke in the background. The soldiers use a flame thrower on a building housing the Japanese.
Reenactment dealing with treatment for World War 2 combat exhaustion cases among U.S. soldiers. Army personnel receive training to know the reasons for exhaustion and the methods to rehabilitate the soldiers. The flag of the United States on a wall. U.S. Army officers seated at a table. The army personnel and an officer are in discussion about combat exhaustion. Personnel receive answers of their questions in the discussion. (Note: Clips deals with treatment for Combat Exahaustion, also later termed Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD)
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