CH-21 helicopter, loaded with Montagnard refugee women and children, touches down in South Vietnam. The chopper, flown by Lieutenant Hel, belongs to the 8th Transportation Company, Camp Goldberg, Qui Nhon, South Vietnam. The refugees are helped into the back of an open military truck.
Vietnamese soldiers with Viet Cong prisoners walk along path through bushes. Prisoners with hands on head. Prisoners interrogated by South Vietnamese Intelligence officer Lieutenant Nguyen Khoan with U.S. adviser, Captain Edward N. Fletcher, from MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group) Team 28.
Vietnamese troops and a U.S. helicopter crew member assist Montagnard refugee women and children as they unload from a CH-21 helicopter in South Vietnam. An American adviser from MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group) Team 28, is seen as well as an American in a sport shirt. Two young Montagnard women with babies touch foreheads in greeting.
Map of Italy shows narrowest part of peninsula where U.S. and British armies are stationed. Map highlights Anzio and Cassino. A building on top of mountain. On island of Corsica, Lt Gen Ira C Eaker, commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Forces, Maj Gen John K Cannon, leader of the Twelfth Air Force, and Brig Gen Gordon Seville of the Twelfth Tactical Air Command, plan Operation Strangle. By animation the operation is explained where pilots of Fifty-Seventh Fighter Group is required to bomb behind enemy lines and cut off the transport of enemy supplies using the P-47 Thunderbolt. Shows destroyed bridges. P-47s taxi at airfield. P-47s parked in flight line. Crew chiefs in canopy of the plane and inspect other sections of plane. Pilots board planes. Planes take off from runway. P-47s in flight over sea, mountains and a castle. P-47s in flight behind squadron leader. P-47s in flight over clouds. P-47s peel off above the bridge. An incendiary bomb is dropped on a bridge. More bridges are bombed. Explosions on bridges. P-47 in flight over fields and railroad tracks. One train spotted. P-47 strafing moving trains. Trains explode. P-47 in flight over coastline and pilot in cockpit. P-47 strafing installations and ground targets. (World War II period).
VC-137 Boeing 707 also called Air Force One,lands at the Vandenberg AFB in California,United States. President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara along with other party members emerges from the plane. General Thomas Power, Commander in Chief of the Strategic Air Command, along with fellow officers and subordinates greet their arrival.
The United States Army Eighth Air Force 351st Bombardment Group shooting for the film 'Combat America' in England. A United States Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress parked on the strip. Captain Clark Gable talking to GI in overalls. Captain Gable turns toward camera, and talks to someone off screen. Captain Gable and crew member in overalls, standing close to the B-17. An officer walks into picture, salutes and shakes hands with the Captain and carries on conversation. The three men walk under a wing of B-17 where they make a check on the super-charger. They inspect the landing gear,propeller, and flap. Captain Gable holds the propeller. Wing surface and antenna of the plane. The men check guns on the lower turret of B-17, then move to tail section where they check horizontal and vertical surface of the plane and the machine gun. Tail gunner of the B-17 sticks head out of window and talks to someone off screen. Top turret gunner does the same. Captain Gable, the officer, and crew member enter side door of B-17. B-17 taxis on runway and takes off. Old insignia on plane. (World War II period).
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