United States 9th Infantry Division redeployment in Vietnam. Soldier stands past truck. He attaches a chain to crane's hook. Truck backs up. Soldier sits in the truck and moves to CONEX container. He attaches chain to crane hook. Container is put onto 2-1/2 ton truck. Soldier detaches chain. The truck goes. Soldiers adjust CONEX container onto another truck. Label on the container. (Vietnam War period).
USS Wasp flight operations (CV-7). SB2U aircraft accidents on board. SB2U lands on the flight deck then falls off. Another crashes into Wasp, missing flight deck.
American Lieutenant General Mark Wayne Clark accompanied by General Lukas and General Dody reviews the 2nd Moroccan Division troops in Sant'Angelo d'Alife in Italy during World War II. Guards, band and troops of the 2nd Moroccan Division exhibit a parade in the review. The troops march with their bayonets raised high. The band plays and the armed troops salute as the Generals review from a raised platform.
Newsreel clip entitled "World Series: Yanks and Giants Tied Up at Two Games Each." Highlights from games three and four of baseball's 1951 World Series at the New York Giants' stadium in Manhattan, the Polo Grounds. Many fans chomping on snacks, smoking cigars or cigarettes. Fans dangle their feet over edge of the upper deck. Close up of Giants rookie star and future Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Mays singles to right field, scoring Bobby Thomson from second base. Giants fans stand and cheer; African American man in hat shouts "That's my boy!" Later, Giants' Eddie Stanky kicks ball out of the glove of Yankees' Phil Rizzuto's glove, advances to third. Giants' Monte Irvin drives in Alvin Dark with infield hit. Giants' Whitey Lockman hits three-run homer. Fans cheer, teammates welcome Lockman at home plate. Giants win game 6-2. Action shifts to game four, still at Polo Grounds. Yankees' Bobby Brown hits long fly to center field. Willie Mays catches it but falls down, allowing Yankees' Gene Woodling to run to third. Joe Collins scores Woodling with a single. In the fifth inning, Yankees' Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio hits a home run to left field, scoring himself and fellow Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, who jumps excitedly as he runs around the bases. Fans cheer as Yankees greet DiMaggio in dugout. Yankees win game, 6-2, and would go on to win the series, four games to two.
Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. American aircrews of 185th Aero Squadron, lined up with their Sopwith Camel aircraft on a field in France. Dense cloud cover overhead. A flare is ignited in front of the wing of one aircraft. Men on top of a tower watch a plane in flight and fire very pistol. Two flyers in front of airplanes. One holds a bomb and they discuss it. Aircrews pose in front of their Salmson 2A2 Airplanes. A pet dog sits atop the upper wing of one airplane. The flyers pose in a group on the ground, with the pet dog.
U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War I. A De Havilland DH-4 bomber taxis on the airfield. A DH-4 seen in flight overhead, maneuvering to land. Next, it is seen parked on the grassy field. The pilot and gunner are both standing in their respective cockpits, facing each other and conversing, while the engine still runs intermittently as it shuts down. Scene shifts to Air Service personnel heading across the grass toward a completely inverted Salmson 2A2 reconnaissance airplane in the distance. Closeup of an American Sergeant, under the inverted airplane, examining the gunner's cockpit and area around it. The airframe seems to be relatively undamaged. It appears as it the aircraft nosed-over on landing. Another view shows a large group of curious American airmen standing around the aircraft. French roundels can be seen painted on the bottom of its lower wing. A motorcycle stands in the foreground.
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