U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade troops, preparing to abandon Fire Base Myron, empty sandbags and break up bunkers at the camp in Cambodia. Soldiers remove sandbags from the Tactical Operations Center (TOC) bunker. Soldiers burn boxes and debris. Soldiers remove ammunition from boxes. Soldiers load and fire 105mm Howitzer.
Delegates of the Pan American Highway Commission visit the United States. Group gathered around the famous Man O' War race horse (then retired) in Kentucky. Close views of Man O' War outside a stable. Visit to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield. Delegates with a wreath are gathered at the base of Lincoln's tomb. The Commission views a 2 mile section of roadway called Bates Road which was built as an experiment, ultimately to be destroyed. Views of the dusty Bates Road and vehicles traveling slowly over its rutted roadway.
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visit Cleveland Ohio during a tour of the United States. Delegates stand outside their cars and view iron ore transport operations. Huge cranes shift ore from ship holds to waiting rail cars. Delegates visit the Huntington Bank Building (originally the Union Trust Building) on Euclid Avenue which had just been completed. View of the delegates gathered at the base of a stairs on one end of the massive bank lobby. View of the Huntington Bank lobby. The delegates visit a truck manufacturing facility in Cleveland (likely either Gotfredson Trucks or White Motor Company). Workers busy building and assembling trucks on the factory floor.
Trajectory of German missile from Peenemunde Germany. Hand drawn animated map shows missile launch and tracking from land base towards sea, during World War 2.
U.S. Combat Team during the war in Korea. Focus on Signal Corps and Engineer Corps activities. Soldiers observe the readings of radar mounted on a truck and talk over the radio reporting incoming mortar information, while other soldiers plot return fire to the enemy mortar positions. Signal Corps soldiers work to run communication wires using different techniques: by hand, using planes, and using mules. Soldier holds boxes of carrier pigeons and places them in the jeep. Soldier in camp writing message on paper. Soldier ties a message onto a carrier pigeon's foot and releases the pigeon to deliver the message. Pigeon in flight. Soldier at a different base removing message from foot of pigeon. Mortar team firing on enemy positions. Army engineer corps drilling through mountains, placing dynamite charges, and blasting mountains. Bulldozer making road. Trucks moving along the roads. Welder repairing a bridge. Soldiers with a mine detecting device search for land mines and disable them.
U.S. Army and elected officials at the Huntsville Arsenal climb up a long flights of steps from a road. Sign at base of stairs says "Little Tokyo". Officials include three star lieutenant generals and two star generals. They stand on a higher observation platform and observe weaponry demonstrations and explosions on the "Little Tokyo" range. Sudden explosion seen on the ground followed by fire and smoke. Smoke clouds rising high in the sky. Flame throwers inundate a building on the proving grounds. Several other officers and officials sitting among a crowd of men viewing the scenes from bleachers. Several army tanks seen moving through smoke on the range. (World War II period).
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