U.S. warships off Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, during World War 2. An OS2U Kingfisher scout seaplane, from one of the ships flies overhead, circles, and lands on choppy waters. The aircraft porpoises in the chop before settling down to taxi. A small boat is nearby.
Brigadier General Merritt Austin Edson, Assistant Commander of the 2d Marine Division looks through binoculars on Saipan, in World War 2. After surveying the battlefield, he discusses the situation with his staff officers. Marine gunners manning an M101, 105mm howitzer, under camouflage netting. They rapid- fire the howitzer. Numerous shells striking and Smoke drifting across the battlefield.
Infantry of the Australian 2nd Division return after being relieved by the 4th Division during fierce fighting at the front in the battle of Pozières, France, during World War I. Soldiers of the Australian 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, are seen marching back from the front, along a dirt road, as other Australian troops cheer them from an overlooking hill. Some of the returning troops ride bicycles.
SH-3A helicopter flying above Guantanamo Bay surface during DesRon2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) hunter-killer exercises in the Atlantic Ocean. A U.S. Naval Destroyer, likely either the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) or the USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway. An S-2E aircraft is seen in flight, flying low over the ocean surface with mad boom extended. It drops a torpedo which splashes into the water. Signal flare seen burning on water, with smoke rising upward.
July 16, 1945, with President Truman and his party enroute to Berlin Germany, prior to the "Big Three" conference at Potsdam. President Harry S. Truman is seated in right rear of open car. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes sits next to him in the center, and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Personal Chief of Staff to the President, is in the left rear seat. U.S. Army Brigadier. An Army Major General stands beside the car speaking to the occupants. Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan (wearing sun glasses), long time friend and aide to the President, steps close to the car. Scene shifts to the President and his party, standing in a moving vehicle, as they review troops of the 2nd Armored Division, standing in front of their tanks, M10 Tank Destroyers, and other armored vehicles. The President and Secretary Byrnes remove their hats and hold them over their hearts,while military officers render hand salutes as they pass the colors. Views from vehicle passing the formation.View from ground of Presidential party at attention with flag of the 17th Battalion displayed. A Lieutenant from the 17th Armored Engineer Battalion reads a citation and Brigadier General John Howell Collier, Commander, 2nd Armored Division, unfurls unit citation ribbon, that President Truman then ties to the Guidon of Company E, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion. As President Truman reportedly described the event in his diary: "We reviewed the Second Armored Division and tied a citation on the guidon of Company E, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion. General Collier, who seemed to know his stuff, put us in a reconnaissance car built with side seats and no top, just like a hoodlum wagon minus the top on a fire truck, with seats and no hose, and we drove slowly down a mile and a half of good soldiers and some millions of dollars' worth of equipment -- which had amply paid its way to Berlin." (World War II period).
Specially-equipped N2Y-1 training planes practice hook-ups on the USS Akron (ZRS-4) dirigible, during flight. Several N2Y-1 training planes take turns practicing their hookup maneuvers.
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