U.S. General Officers planning for the U.S. Army 101st Air Cavalry Division's Operation Somerset Plain ( A Search and Destroy Mission to prevent North Vietnam Army elements from reentering the A Shau Valley, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam). U.S. Officers including Major General Melvin Zais, Brigadier General John, S Lekson, Marine Major General C B Drake discussing a map with Lieutenant Colonel Daniel G. Sharp, Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, 502 Infantry Regiment. August,1968. (Vietnam War period).
Air activities during June 1965 at Bien Hoa AB,Vietnam. USAF A-1E skyraider flying. 2 June 1965.
People and children walking on a snow-clad road. Area around the Berlin Tiergarten with jeeps and car parked on the road. Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) seen in background. Black market crowd seen in front of the Reichstag- the seat of the German Government in Berlin. Policeman directing the traffic. Soldier trying to click the picture of Russian War Memorial. Russian soldier bartering with a German civilian in post World War 2 Berlin.
Man pours drops of halibut oil on dead fishes and gives the fish to a seal in the pond. It consumes the fish and gets back in the pond. The halibut oil is a spring tonic for the animals. People watch the seal. Some penguins walk nearby the pond. 2 chimpanzees sit on the table and a man gives them the tonic by pouring some drops of it on sugar cubes and they eat the cubes. One of the chimpanzees gives the man a spoonful of Castor oil.
An F6F Hellcat ditches in the sea. It floats long enough to allow pilot to abandon it before sinking. Next an A-4 Skyhawk ditches. Narrator remarks about the short time for escape from such aircraft on the surface of the water. Views of tests conducted by the U.S. Navy to test the sink rates of jet aircraft from various heights and attitudes. A dummy is placed in the cockpit of a derelict F9F Panther, which is lifted by a crane and is dropped into water from a low height. It is seen floating. (Narrator states that even with no structural damage, it sinks in less than a minute.) Next an FJ-2 Fury is dropped from about 55 feet. Due to structural damage, narrator states such an aircraft may sink in a few seconds, and generally between zero to 55 seconds. View of crane operator and then of an airplane sinking rapidly. Scene shifts to James F. Roth of U.S. Navy Attack Squadron 42,(VA-42) the "Green Pawns," in the closed cockpit of a Navy jet airplane. Next, an F-4 phantom jet is seen being catapulted from an aircraft carrier. Animation shows that the airplane falling into the sea right after takeoff will sink ballistically and can descend as deep as 100 feet in 10 seconds.
A motorcade of open cars carrying Adolf Hitler and his entourage along a street in the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. Next, Hitler is seen standing on a balcony overlooking the Marktplatz in downtown Cheb (German: Eger). Among those seen with him are Hermann Goering and Konrad Henlein (wearing glasses). Henlein is head of the Nazi Party in Czechoslovakia, and Reichskommissar for the Sudetenland. Crowds of noisy Sudeten Germans are gathered in the Marktplatz (Jatechni 476/2, Cheb 350 02, Czech Republic) to greet their liberator. Most of the footage focuses on Hitler.
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