Overlooking helicopter deck at USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) underway in Guantanamo Bay during DesRon 2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) exercises. Winch seen in the background. SH-3A helicopter in flight far off port quarter. Curved wake of USS Lind. Part of helicopter deck in the foreground. S-2E aircraft on fly-by with MAD boom extended past USS Lind. It flies towards flare burning on water. SH-3A hovers in the background while dipping sonar. S-2E making approach low over water on fly-by, MAD boom extended.
Preparations for test launch of German Wasserfall antiaircraft missile, during World War 2. A German officer operating the rocket's remote control device. Wasserfal C-2 ground to air rocket hoisted on the mobile launch dolly (trailer) brought out from the shelter. Technicians work on the erect rocket. Wasserfall C-2 erect on the stand in launching position. (Note: The location appears to be the island "Greifswalder Oie" - the west coast is clearly visible - along with the northern observation tower and a Wuerzburg Riese Radar.)
N2Y-1 training planes, with trapeze-hook equipment, practice hooking onto USS Akron (ZRS-4) dirigible in the United States. USS Akron in flight. N2Y-1 training plane hooked onto it. Another plane attempts to hook onto the Akron but misses. The N2Y-1 tries again and then flies away.
Consolidated N2Y-1airplane tries to hook-on to USS Akron (ZRS-4) Zeppelin Dirigible, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. USS Akron in flight. Consolidated N2Y-1makes repeated attempts to hook on to USS Akron. A Consolidated N2Y-1 hooks onto the airship and releases. Another succeeds in hooking to and releasing from the Akron.
A CV-2 Caribou airplane taxis to a stop during Operation Cedar Falls at Tan Son Nhut Airfield, South Vietnam. U.S. Soldiers board the CV-2. Soldiers get off the CV-2 at Lai Ke. (Vietnam War period).
The final struggle for Stalingrad during World War Two. Christmastime, 1942 in Moscow. Russian civilians obtaining fir trees for Christmas celebrations. A large beautifully decorated Christmas tree set up in the Hall of Pillars, in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Men and women couples dancing in the hall to music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Smiling Russian children at play indoors, on slides, on a carousel ride, and playing hand games with one another. New Year's eve is different. World War 2 Soviet war production workers in a munitions factory greet each other but continue working without stopping. On the Stalingrad front lines, the Soviet Army marks the New Year, 1943, by launching artillery barrages, through the night and continuing unabated well into the next day. Russian Sukhoi Su-2 light bombers drop incendiaries on German positions. Brief partial glimpse of a Russian Sherman tank. Soviet Army soldiers using flame throwers. Soviet troops moving across ice and snow on armed Aerosan ice gliders. Batteries of Soviet Katusha rockets fire barrages. Soviet infantry and tanks advance across vast barren snow-covered terrain. Animated map depicts Nazi German military forces being pounded on several fronts. A solitary horse standing in midst of Stalingrad destruction and ruins. Scene from February 2, 1943 as Soviet soldiers, symbolically, fire the last shot in the Battle of Stalingrad. A smiling Soviet soldier then places a cover over the muzzle of the field artillery piece. Scenes of the battle's aftermath. Russian officers hug one another. The Soviet Union flag is hung from a city building. Numerous German soldiers surrender under a white flag of truce. Many surrendering German Generals are seen.
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