Airlift of supplies from India to China through “The Hump” during World War 2. Barrels of oil in Allied airfield in Assam, India. Sikh Indian laborers, wearing Dastar turbans, load supplies on a plane as an American soldier watches. Man welding. Dismantled airplane equipment. Shirtless American soldiers inspect equipment before boarding plane. A Curtiss C-46 Commando takes off. Three planes of the American Transport Command fly over “The Hump”. Map showing flight route change from Dibrugarh, India to Kunming, China. A C-47 Skytrain flies over mountainous jungle, misty fog, and high mountains of the Himalayas. Various views of the Eastern Himalayan Uplift. A Curtiss C-46 Commando lands in Kunming, China.
Captured German troops in Cherbourg, France during World War 2. Captured German soldiers raise their hands up, with their backs facing the wall. American troops frisk captured German soldiers for weapons. A German soldier is being frisked by an American soldier while another holds his hair. An American soldier slaps the face of a German prisoner while the latter is being frisked. A wrecked tank covered with thick smoke. U.S. Army soldiers firing with rifles. A shop sign “TUDOR” near snipers. One of the soldiers smokes a cigarette while firing his rifle. American soldiers riding a jeep pass by wrecked vehicles. Building in background has sing that reads “Cherbourg Poste No. 1” (Cherbourg Post Office- 1).
Captured German soldiers with raised hands are searched in Periers, Normandy, France during World War II. A young German prisoner wearing an oval-shaped dog tag (erkennungsmarke) being searched. A soldier flips through the pages of a booklet seized from a captured German prisoner. An M7 priest 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 with soldiers moves in front of the ruins of Église Saint-Pierre (Place du Général de Gaulle, 50190 Périers, France). Soldiers in tank passes by destroyed houses on devastated road.
Parachutes descent landing in Lakehurst New Jersey. Navy personnel with square parachute gradually descend and land in a field. A man with a basket weave parachute lands in a field.
Various U.S. Navy ships sailing in rough waters of the Sea of Japan in Vietnam War period. Looking down over port side of USS Bradley (DE- 1041) underway at high speed. Bradley underway as seen from stern view. The USS Yorktown (CVS-10) sails near Japan. The ship casts a very deep silhouette, with sunlight in background across the water. A destroyer-type ship sailing underway. USS Yorktown as seen on port side. The camera zooms back away from port side of the USS Yorktown, around slightly to port quarter. As seen from starboard beam view, an aircraft carrier sails underway in Sea of Japan.
Marines rolling cargo bundle off a parachute during the Vietnam War. A forklift places military cargo onto a truck. View of soldier driving forklift. African American soldier drives truck stacked cargo away. An African American Marine pulling parachute ropes. Forklift moves cargo parcel onto truck bed.
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