Israeli tank rolls by as Army infantry drive across the Sinai Peninsula to the Suez Canal during the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Syria. Israeli soldier looks through binoculars. Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF) man a foxhole with weapons ready. An Israeli puts up a sign in Hebrew covering a sign that says "Welcome to Gaza." Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan brief journalists. The Israeli forces break the Gulf of Aqaba blockade and take the old city of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Palestine. View of the damaged buildings. Israeli soldiers receive surrendering Arab prisoners of war. In New York: At United Nations Headquarters United States Ambassador Arthur Goldberg introduces the Peace Plan. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and representatives from 15 Nations come to a common decision. Resolution being adopted and Jordan and Egypt accepts the United Nations cease fire.
U.S. troops board a large troop transport ship via a gangplank. Troops on an intermediate deck of the ship. Some are sprawled out relaxing. View from above of more troops boarding a ship. Men and equipment on the pier below. American forces at various far flung places where the U.S. Army Services Forces facilitated their transport and logistic support. Fleeting glimpses of troops in: Ireland; Alaska; Trinidad; and South America. Troops jam the upper deck of a transport ship. Army Service Forces officers in a planning meeting. Naval officers on deck of a ship look through binoculars as U.S. Naval ships bombard the coast of Solomon Islands and landing craft carry marines in an amphibious assault. Next, a man is seen annotating a map of North Africa. Secret maps pertaining to Allied landings in Tunisia and Algeria. Animated map illustrates amphibious landings on North African coast, highlighting Casablanca, Oran, and Algeria. Landing craft carry troops and supplies that are piled up in the sand beach. Soldiers moving military supplies ashore, in fire brigade fashion. Soldiers working at desks in Offices of the Army Service Forces. Filing cabinet in background. Trucks on the move in remote locations. Supply ship being loaded at a terminal. Fuel drums and army vehicles a being loaded aboard ships. Officers seated at a conference table. Ordinary American enlisted soldiers in a griping session at an Army post in the United States. Camera pans over large formation of soldiers. Animated chart shows more than half of servicemen who are part of Army Service Forces (ASF), are unaware of that. Troops marching in review at a tropical location, where reviewing officers wear pith helmets. Chart illustrates lack of unit pride in ASF. Images of various ASF logos. Chart shows results of polling data from soldiers and service members. Signal Corps and Engineers elements of ASF have the greatest unit pride. But most think better of other branches of the Army. More troops marching, in steel helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets affixed. Troops marching overlaid by "50%" indicating that half don't believe their contributions to the war effort are significant. Troops lined up (for pay?). More charts expressing concern about low morale. A heavy gun firing. German paratroopers jumping from a formation of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft. Charts expressing prevailing U.S. troops view that Germany wouldn't be too hard to defeat. Chart showing lack of understanding about why the U.S. is fighting Germany. Image of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seated in front of their key military officers at Casablanca Conference in World War 2. Chart shows U.S. soldiers believe that the greatest war effort is expended by the U.S. followed by Russia, with China and Britain providing little. Chart illustrates that only half U.S. troops want to get overseas and fight. Chart shows U.S. War Department films can correct this problem.
The fourth presidential election debate held between Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in New York, United States on 21st October 1960. News correspondent John Edwards asks Senator Kennedy if he can give the names of three or four Americans whom he can appoint as the Secretary of State. Senator Kennedy replies to the question and says that this decision can only be made by the president and not presidential candidates. He says that he has made no judgment about who should be the Secretary of State. News correspondent Quincy Howe asks Richard Nixon to comment. Nixon says that it would be the responsibility of the next president to appoint the Secretary of State. Vice President Nixon speaks about a previous comment made by Senator Kennedy regarding Fidel Castro's regime. He says that President Eisenhower's administration appropriated five times as much for Latin America as was appropriated by the previous administration. He speaks that Democratic Congress has cut eighty million dollars off of the Voice of America appropriations to Latin America.
Nazi Kreisleiter Franz Strasser on trial in Dachau, Germany, before a U.S. Army military commission, for the shooting of unarmed United States Army Air Force flyer prisoners on December 9, 1945. Other officers and soldiers in the courtroom. Defendant Franz Strasser is questioned about landing of an American plane, call to the police, the American flyers in custody of Police Chief Lindemeyer, and Strasser's knowledge of whether the flyers were unarmed. Frans Strasser answers the questions through an interpreter. Commission officers and United States flag seen on stage. U.S. Army commission judge delivers the commission verdict of guilty, and states that Strasser is sentenced to death by hanging. The interpreter reads aloud in German the verdict and sentence to Strasser. (World War II 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.
Ceremonies attending the burial of the unknown and unidentified American soldier after World War I in France. France honors the Unknown U.S. Hero before the body is transported to America for burial at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. The ceremony marks the selection of the Unknown Soldier to be taken to the United States for burial. French citizens pay final homage to the body of the American lying in state at the Hôtel de Ville in Châlons-en-Champagne (City Hall in Châlons-en-Champagne, France). French men, women, and children wait in line and then file through to pay last respects. A banner on the road honors the American Hero. French soldiers stand by the large crowd of mourners outside the City Hall. People emerge from the Hall and more inside the Hall. View of the coffin with the simple offering of white roses to indicate that this would be the body sent back to the U.S. to represent all of his Unknown Soldier brothers. United States and French soldiers around the coffin. Close-up view of U.S. Army Sergeant Edward F Younger, who fought in all the American offensives and who had the honor of selecting the body from among four identical coffins on October 24, 1921, at the City Hall in Chalons-en-Champagne, France. A car arrives. French and American Generals emerge and greet the waiting officials. General Allen with a French General near the coffin. Allen pays tribute to the Unknown Soldier. The Generals and officers salute as the coffin is taken out of the City Hall and laid in a caisson. Marching troops lead the procession. The casket is brought to Le Havre where French citizens turn out in respectful tribute. Soldiers carry the casket past railway carriages followed by military officers and government officials. A large crowd on the streets watches the procession. The horse drawn caisson moves through people gathered on either side.
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