An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. U.S. Air Force personnel board a USAF transport aircraft at an air base in Vietnam. The airmen get off trucks and board the plane. Airmen carrying duffel bags climb into the cargo hold through the aft door. An airman directs a passenger into the aircraft. (Vietnam War period).
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. The Cam Ranh Bay in the province of Khanh Hoa, Vietnam. The Bay shoreline. Clouds over mountains in the background. The Cam Ranh Air Base. Two towers on the Base. U.S. aircraft parked on the runway. Runway lights on either side of the runway. A plane taxis and takes off. (Vietnam War period).
The state funeral of assassinated United States President John F Kennedy in Washington DC. The Kennedy family including Kennedy's wife Jacqueline, daughter Caroline, brother and Attorney General Robert Kennedy walk out of the U.S. Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States). They come down the stairs. Guards on either side of the staircase. Newly appointed President Lyndon B Johnson and Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson (the First Lady) offer their condolences to Jacqueline Kennedy. She gets into a waiting limousine and leaves. Kennedy's flag draped casket on the Lincoln catafalque inside the Capitol Rotunda. Police escorts on motorbikes accompany Jacqueline Kennedy's car as it makes it's way down watered streets and Pennsylvania Avenue. A large crowd of people gathered on either side of the roads. Cars and pedestrians all along. A national television presenter reports about the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the main suspect in the Kennedy assassination.
United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. A South Vietnamese officer questions Montagnard refugees on a road. U.S. soldiers watch as he talks to the refugee man and woman with a child. American and South Vietnamese officers inspect a captured North Vietnamese map. The map spread on the bonnet of a military vehicle. A photograph of a Vietnamese woman near the map.
Living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the "Great Leap Forward" Communist regime of Mao Zedong, preceding the Cultural Revolution. Footage shot by Indians visiting the country. United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk comments on the current attitude of communist China towards the rest of the world. Rusk discusses how communist China use aggression for its expansion. He states that the Chinese are decided on continued aggression towards its neighbors in Asia and continue to subvert other nations with Communist penetration. He also mentions the Chinese attack on Indian territory. The population and masses under the regime of Mao Zedong in China. Chinese people participate in a festive parade. Various decorative floats in the parade. Young men and women perform synchronized drills during the parade event.
Naval warfare in the Mediterranean during World War II. An Italian submarine surfaces off the Barbary Coast. A crew member sights a small United States freighter underway. He goes down below into the submarine and informs the crew. The alarm is sounded. Italian sailors man their respective posts. The Captain looks through the periscope. The sailors take aim and shell the freighter. A sailor surveys the damage using binoculars. The hit ship sinks.
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