Group of A-6A aircrafts in formation taking VIPs out to the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), in the Gulf of Tonkin for awards presentation by Air Vice Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, to pilots aboard the ship. Four A-6As in formation. Two A-6As in flight over clouds. A-6As in flight. Four A-6As in formation. Two A-6As in flight in close formation. Four A-6A's in formation. Three A-6A's in formation. Rear view, two A-6As in formation over the water.
M Kadrlik taking meter readings for generator in one of ship's spaces aboard U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in Gulf of Tonkin, Yankee Station. Entries are made on log sheet on small desk. Chief is standing before. Chief's hand shown moving dial for checking the cylinder head temperature. Dial on panel of air pressure gauze. One dial between two others in lower position on panel. Large dial for lubricant oil from engine. Temperature of lubricant oil from engine. Chief's face as he checks gauzes. Chief writes down information. Chief taking meter readings for emergency generator.
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) P-47 Thunderbolts, aka "jugs," fly low over an airfield in France. Some of the P-47s display yellow cowlings and blue and red striped tails. Others display red cowlings. The aircraft fly over in flights of 4 aircraft each, and break for landings. However, they do not land, but either buzz low over the runway, or make touch and go landings.
Allied French soldiers run out of camouflaged bunkers and buildings at the Tunis Port, apparently in response to an air raid warning. French soldiers prepare for defensive action. French soldiers adjust the barrel of an anti-aircraft gun. View of other anti aircraft guns on the shore. Soldiers load shells into anti-aircraft guns. Soldiers approach another anti-aircraft gun, adjust the gun's barrel and prepare to fire. (World War II period).
U.S. amphibious assault on Pacific island in World War 2. Transport ships offshore. A U.S. Fletcher Class destroyer, close to shore, bombarding the shore. White smoke rising from shell burst. Landing craft heading toward shore. Black smoke rising on shoreline, from naval shelling. More black smoke and fires at another shore location. Plume of water from Japanese shell striking near assault boats. The destroyer close to the shore as smoke drifts above mountain in background. Flames at shore. Landing craft tracked (LCT) approaching shore and avoiding area of fire and smoke. American SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser, PC-1278, close to shore. She displays a red flag with white stripe, as secondary control ship for Red Beach. Several LVTs led by one displaying Wave Commander blue and orange flag. Several plumes of water thrown into the air from Japanese shells or bombs. Assault boats reaching narrow beach, where a fire is burning. Other boats and LVTs avoiding the area of smoke and fire. Landing craft clustered at shore and one flying red and white flag, away from the shore. Several structures on the shore. More black smoke rising from shore. Camera pans around showing steep vegetation-covered hills characteristic of the island.
U.S. Army Air Forces occupy former German airfield at El Aouina, in Tunis, Tunisia. U.S. Officer holds slate as they photograph a wrecked German 6-engined Me 323 Gigant ("Giant") on the airfield.
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