F-104 Starfighter of the U.S. Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base in United States. Two F-104s make a low pass over Edwards Air Force Base. Contrail left out by them. Insignia of United States. The planes in flight. F-104s invisible after a while.
U.S. 5th Marine 2nd Battalion with French Second Army at the Third Bourmont Training Area in France during World War I. U.S. troops wear gas masks and get ready for a gas drill. The soldiers with bayonets in their hands. A soldier talks over a radio which is attached to a tree. The troops are seated. A U.S. soldier sitting on a wooden log writes on a paper. The troops around a car. They look into the paper and talk. A horse in the background.
USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The carrier advances towards the Mariana Islands. On the eve of battle, soldiers scrub up to lessen the danger of infection in case they're wounded. Sailors clean up, bathe and rest. Priests conduct services aboard the ship. Sailors take communion and pray. Crewmen read and sleep on their bunks. The carrier underway at dusk. Cooks and bakers prepare a hearty meal of stakes and eggs. Officers take their meal at a table. The alarm goes off to warn of an enemy attack. Sailors rush to their battle stations. Bombardment by Japanese torpedo bomber planes. Fire due to explosions around the ships. Black smoke rises up into the air. Anti aircraft fire from the U.S. ships, planes are hit and descend towards the water. The alarm sounds, pilots rush and board planes and take off. The Radio Plotting Room in charge Smokey and other operators tracks down enemy planes. A map depicts Japanese air bases and military installations in the Mariana Islands, including the Japanese fortified Guam. Radio operators at work. U.S. planes in flight. They swoop down upon Tinian Island and bomb enemy installations. Explosions due to bombardment. Shore installations and air bases bombed. Craters on the island. The U.S. Assault Force battleships including USS Colorado, USS Tennessee and USS Pennsylvania advance. Explosions due to enemy fire. (World War II period).
Amphibious and airborne Allied forces land in southern France during World War II. (Operation Dragoon in August 1944). Map of France depicts Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day. Naples: An Allied naval force assembles, poised for landing in Southern France, 10 weeks after the Normandy D-Day invasion. Thousands of landing crafts, trucks, tanks, mobile cannons, military vehicles and equipment in the embarkation area. Barrages in flight overhead. Allied officers supervise as the vehicles are loaded into ships. US, French, British, Greek and Polish troops move up to their ships. The ships underway in the Mediterranean. U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, U.S. Army General Alexander Patch, French Admiral Andre Lemonnier and U.S. Navy Admiral Henry Hewitt (Chief of the Atlantic Invasion Fleet) aboard the flagship. Allied soldiers stitch sleeve patches. An animated map depicts the Allied invasion of southern France near Toulon in a combined amphibious and airborne assault. Hundreds of transport aircraft carry paratroop forces. The paratroopers get ready, jump, and descend to the ground. The amphibious forces near the French coast. German shore batteries fire at the approaching naval vessels. Explosions on ships and in water. Allied troops crouched in landing crafts. They hit the beach under shell fire and advance in land.
United States Army 3rd Infantry Regiment also known as 'Old Guard' during the military funeral of General Jacob Devers at Fort Myer in Virginia, United States. Horse drawn caisson carriage enters the gates of the Arlington National cemetery. The Old Post Chapel at Fort Myer visible behind. U.S. 3rd Infantry Regiment pallbearers fold the American flag over the casket. An officer presents the flag to the widow of General Jacob Devers. A sign on a gravestone reads 'Devers'.
Opening scenes show interior of a U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster aircraft, Model A, filled with U.S. Army Airborne troops seated in its cargo compartment. Closeup of one trooper reading a magazine. Closeup of two smiling for the camera. Views of troopers napping and reading. Troopers looking out a window. A trooper wearing life vest checking his rifle. Brief view of radio operator at his station in the aircraft. View from behind the flight engineer at his station as he makes engine adjustments. The pilot in left seat of the cockpit. Closeup of throttles and mixture controls in cockpit. Navigator looking over charts. View of cockpit from just behind it. Flight engineer, again, at controls. Aircraft radios. Navigator plotting course using Weems plotter. View of running engine from cockpit. View of number 4 engine from cockpit. Views of Greenland Icecap from cockpit. Extended aerial views of C-124 in flight. It has wingtip heaters but no radome in the nose. "Troop Carrier, United States Air Force" is painted on its fuselage. C-124 aircraft parked on the ramp at Thule Air Base, Greenland. One has tail number 1092. A C-124 taking off.
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