The 1968 Olympic games to be held in Mexico. The preparation for the Olympic games. Buildings and stadiums being constructed. Men work with bulldozers at the construction site. Stadium, pool-gymnasium and sports palace being constructed.
Montage of scenes dealing with Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War 2. Bombs exploding and ships on fire; Japanese airplane diving from formation; a jeep driving past a burning airplane; hangars burning; Sailors firing anti-aircraft guns from an American ship; A New Orleans class American Cruiser firing her 8-inch guns; A South Dakota Class battleship firing her 16-inch guns; Group of American M3 Stuart light tanks in a field; U.S. Aviation Cadets marching between rows of Boeing Stearman Model 75 training biplanes; American soldiers marching in huge formations; Paratroopers in training jumps from towers; U.S. soldiers climbing down netting on side of troop transport ships to board small landing ships in the Pacific.; Marines in a landing craft carrying a large American flag; Landing craft in an amphious assault; Troops coming ashore from a Higgins boat, during training; An amphibious invasion task force at dusk; Troops wading ashore during the invasion of France in World War II, with barrage balloons aloft and support ships offshore. Staged scene of soldier on transport ship using flash light to read letter from home. Capital warships firing heavy guns and soldiers descending rope nets to enter landing craft. Soldiers landing on shore from Higgins Boats during training, and then on the shores of Normandy during the D-day invasion. American tank crew on an M26 Pershing tank. Major General George Patton with 1st Armored Division patch on his uniform sleeve. General George Marshall. General Dwight D. Eisenhower decorating an officer. Lieutenant General Henry (Hap) Arnold. Paratroopers jumping en masse from C-47 transport planes. German forces retreating in trucks along a road. Japanese General Yoshijirō Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff, signing Surrender document aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II, in the pacific. Glimpse of troop ship arriving in a U.S. harbor. View of U.S. military cemetery. Scene shifts to John Charles Daly, speaking in front of wall with names of Medal of Honor recipients, in the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, in 1968.
Telephone conversation between U.S. President Richard Nixon and the astronauts of Apollo 11, while they are on the moon, July 20th, 1969. President Nixon seated at a desk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, United States. Technicians setting up video cameras. Nixon talks over a phone. Men setting up a monitor screen. Flickering moving images of the astronauts beside the Lunar Lander, on the surface of the moon. A camera focuses in on a document titled: DRAFT 'Talk to men on the moon' on the desk. The opening sentence reads: "This is an epic day in the history of man." A split image on the screen shows President Nixon talking and the astronauts on the moon. President Nixon talking to an astronaut on a phone at his desk in the Oval Office. Picture of "Earthrise" as seen from the moon, on wall in the Oval Office. NASA Astronaut, Frank Borman,who commanded the Apollo 8 mission,in 1968, comes before the cameras in the White House and makes speaks on behalf of NASA astronauts involved in the Apollo missions.
Musician plays a hurdy-gurdy, a medieval stringed musical instrument, near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Lynn Elder assembles body of a hurdy-gurdy. Lynn Elder bends wood for a dulcimer. A female student assembles a wooden body of a dulcimer. Student traces wood with pencil. Craftsman teaches a student how to carve wood. View of a rebec. Student carves wood to make instrument. A student tests a dulcimers sound using quill. Musicians play medieval instruments. “Magic Mountain Workshop 1968” sign. Lynn Elder drills a hole into wood and applies glue to a dulcimer. He puts metal string on dulcimer. A musician plays a medieval instrument. Various medieval instruments on display as Lynn Elder plays a hurdy-gurdy.
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division troops at a sandbagged emplacement in Ankhe, Vietnam. Gun crewman holds a 106mm shell, as a Sergeant uses wrench to adjust fuze on its nose. Soldier then loads it into M-40 Recoilless Rifle. Another soldier looks through a scope mounted on side of the weapon. View of the 106mm shell. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division troops rappel from hovering army helicopters in Ankhe, South Vietnam. Troops climb a rope ladder hanging from a helicopter. Troops board the helicopter. Troops descend from the helicopter by the rope ladder. (Vietnam War period).
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