The operation and uses of the radar in the United States. An enemy plane comes in the range of radar detection. The receiving antenna detects entry of a plane. A search light pinpoints at the plane. Guns fire. The plane on fire. It drops down. Radar used at ports. A plane in flight. It looses altitude. A ground control man guides with accurate information and helps the pilot to land safely. Gauges show altitude and other readings. (World War II period).
Departure of United States Army Major General Charles Andrew Willoughby from Yokohama, Japan. High ranking officers stand on a pier. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Doyle Overton Hickey stands. Major General Willoughby stands on the pier. He talks with the officers. Willoughby talks with Hickey. Willoughby shakes hands with U.S. Army General Matthew Bunker Ridgway. His wife Mary Anthony Ridgway looks on. Major General Willoughby, Lieutenant General Hickey, General Ridgway and Mrs. Ridgway pose.
Operation Double Eagle in Vietnam during Vietnam War. U.S. Marines run down white line on flight deck to the helicopter turning up. Several ships off beach in the background. Small group of Marines run down center of deck to man the helicopter on after part of flight deck. All the helicopters turning up. Another group of marines run. U.S. UH-34D helicopter takes off. Second copter lifts off. Then the third one also fly off.
Loading of the USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in San Diego, California. U.S. Navy Chance Vought F4Us Corsair fighter aircrafts being loaded on the flight deck of USS. Pulley loads the aircrafts on the ship.
U.S. 25th Infantry Division makes use of FADAC (Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer) at Division Headquarters in Cu Chi, Vietnam. A PFC (Private First Class) receives the orders for the fire mission over a radio. A computer operator feeds the information into a computer. View of a computer panel. The operator makes notes. A lieutenant, executive officer, checks mission on the FDC (Fire Direction Center) chart and plots on the chart. A telephone operator talks over a phone.
Navy officers confer in Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Bow section of a plane, with three-star emblem beneath the cockpit. U.S. Admiral Chester William Nimitz and U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal come down a ladder and being greeted by officers. Forrestal and Nimitz talk with officers. A car pulls up. Navy personnel standing around.
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