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.
Anti-submarine warfare exercises in United States. U.S. Navy S2F Anti-submarine warfare aircraft in flight. USS Hazelwood (DD-531) underway. USS Sea Poacher (SS-406) underway on surface. USS Sea Poacher submerges and then comes to the surface. S2F aircraft fires rockets. Rockets strike the water. Anti-submarine depth charges dropped by S2F.
Air operations aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Yankee Station, Vietnam. U.S. cargo aircraft C-2A comes in over the flight deck for landing. C-2A makes a touch-and-go landing. C-2A aircraft in flight. Men wearing green shirt in the foreground. Men on catwalk and on the port edge of the flight deck.
The British 2nd Army advances on Tournai, Antwerp, and Ghent in Belgium. Animated map shows the advance in Belgium. Sign of France. The British 2nd Army rolls through Tournai, Belgium (September 3): Soldiers advance on Tournai. Army tanks and soldiers move over bridge and fire. Ghent citizens help wipe out final resistance. Large crowd gathers and allied troops on army tanks fire in city. The British 2nd Army fights in Antwerp on 4th September: German equipment burned and soldiers fire. Troops fight in streets. Nazi defenders run near railway tracks. (World War II period).
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