Film opens showing closeup of a smashed aircraft landing gear at a crash site. A large group of men stand near the burned remains of U.S. Air Force B-52D Stratofortress, 56-0594, of the 22d Bomb Wing, that crashed at 0730 hours, shortly after takeoff from March Air Base in California. An armed airman stands in the foreground. A fire truck is parked near the wreckage. Scene shifts to recovery workers combing through smoldering debris. Medics carry covered remains from the area, on a stretcher, past an Air Force cinematographer filming the scene. Closeup of a medic in white red cross helmet wearing a breathing mask, standing near workers placing charred remains in a plastic bag and tagging it. An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and a Captain, standing with civilians at the site. View of the plane tail and part of fuselage silhouetted against gray sky. Remains of a farm animal. Airman shoveling ashes over smoldering debris. An aircraft circling over the crash site. A fire truck parked next to wreckage. Camera pans over remains of aircraft tail section. Closeup of landing gear wheels with tires and fire fighters moving hose through through smoldering debris in background. Firefighters at their truck. (Note: the crash site is a plowed farm field at Sunnymead, approximately 2.5 miles SE of March AFB.)
Army Air Force Major Samuel Grashio speaks prior to an air show in Spokane, Washington, during World War 2. He is from Spokane, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, and had successfully escaped from a Japanese prison camp. The Major begins to describe his experiences during the fall of Corregidor and Bataan, during the Japanese invasion at the start of World War II in the Pacific. Unfortunately, the sound stops (purposely ?) as he gets into the details of his story.
Remains of United States Army Air Forces B-29A Super fortress that crashed on March 30, 1945, at North Field, Tinian,in the Northern Mariana Islands, during World War 2. Scattered debris on ground. Remaining piece of tail section displays serial number 265283 indicating it is B-29 number 42-65283, nicknamed "Big Wheel," from the 9th Bomb Group, 99th Bomb Squadron. Reportedly, it experienced mechanical problems during a mission to drop mines in Japanese waters. After jettisoning its munitions, it returned to Tinian, but crashed on the shore. Of the 12 crew, only the radar operator survived.
Remains of USAAF B-29 number 42-65283 from the 9th Bomb Group, 99th Bomb Squadron, that crashed, 30 March 1945, in World War 2, on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. All crew members were immediately killed in the crash, except tail gunner, Sgt. Joseph C. Trullo, Jr., who initially survived but died of his injuries, five days later, and the sole survivor, Radio Operator, Sgt. James Langraf who was injured but eventually recovered. Air Force personnel inspect debris that is scattered across the crash site in sand dunes close to the ocean in the background.
Remains of United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress that crashed in Tinian, Northern Marianas Islands during World War 2. It was B-29 number 42-65283, nicknamed "Big Wheel," from the 9th Bomb Group, 99th Bomb Squadron. Opening scene shows remains of two engines and bent propellers from the crashed B-29. Ocean and a B-29 coming in for a landing are seen in background. Two destroyed engines and props along with partially intact empennage, are the only recognizable parts of the airplane. Aircraft debris is scattered close to the beach. Three U.S. Army Air Force personnel stand looking over the wreckage.
Rebellion flares in Hanoi, Vietnam during Indochina War. French troops shell rebel held towns and then move in for bitter in-fighting with machine guns and small arms to mop up the entrenched Vietnamese. Wounded and dead combatants in the ruins. General Jacques-Philippe LeClerc, in charge of the military operation in Indochina, and French oversea minister, Marius Moutet, inspect the area. They move in towns by jeep and army tanks. General George and others standing outside the Pasteur Hospital building (National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1 P. Yec Xanh, Phạm Đình Hổ, Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội 100000, Vietnam), which had been vandalized. Debris and wreckage in buildings. French soldier enters a trench and finds a Japanese-made helmet (World War 2 era) that was used by a Viet Minh soldier.
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