Security police QRT (Quick Reaction Team) members board V-100 vehicle at Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam. V-100 on dirt road with a perimeter guard tower in the background. Airman sets up M67 90mm recoilless rifle in bunker. He loads the rifle. Another airman loads and aims M60 machine gun in bunker. V-100 drives past perimeter guard tower.
King George V in visit to the Grand Fleet at anchor in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland, during World War 1. View from above, of funnel and wireless apparatus atop a Queen Elizabeth-class British Battleship, during World War 1. Other warships in the background. Four of the Battleship's BL 15 inch Mark I guns are seen with barrels closed by plugs. Sailors walk past the guns. A mascot dog eating a treat while perched in the open barrel of a gun. Three of the Ship's officers display a moose head received from the Canadian Government. Group of ship's officers pose standing on deck while several sit down holding their mascot dog and cat. The moose head is displayed behind them. The seated officers tease the cat and dog by making them confront each other. Change of sequence, to a royal visit by King George V to the Grand Fleet. British Admiral Sir David Beatty, Commander of the Grand Fleet, is seen standing with British Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, on the deck of a British battleship.They are joined by another officer, as King George V paces back and forth past them, in earnest conversation with the ship's captain. Scene shifts to Admirals Beatty and Sturdee, conversing with other high ranking British Naval officers. Next, sailors are seen boarding steam launches, at a pier, for return to their respective ships, after shore leave. The launches proceeding out to the ships. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The Saturn V also called the Moon Rocket takes off on its maiden flight (SA-501), unmanned. Saturn V rocket in launch position. The Moon Rocket takes off from the launch pad leaving behind smoke and fire. A part of Saturn V on water surface after successful splash down. Personnel pull it with the help of a rope.
United States Army post office in Indiana. Piles of letters on tables. A man empties a bag of V-Mail (Victory Mail). A group of men opens the envelopes and arrange the letters in neat piles. V-mail symbol and V-Mail written on envelopes. A letter in view.
British antiaircraft batteries fire furiously at German V-1 Buzz bombs over London. One V-1 is seen running out of fuel, with a puff of smoke, and then descending to strike the city. Other V-1s are seen descending to strike. View of the Thames River with Tower of London, Southwark and Cannon Street Rail Bridges in view. Wrecked buildings and rubble on streets. Views of terrible destruction from the Buzz bombs.
King George V and Queen Mary are welcomed from the residents of Leeds, England. King Geroge V and Queen Mary are seated in a horse-drawn carriage which drives past a crowd lined up on a street. King George V inspects the Town Hall and reviews the Life Guards. The King and the Queen pass in a horse-drawn carriage from the front of the Town Hall.
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