Sign for Homestead Air Force Base. President John F Kennedy arrives at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. President Kennedy inspects aircraft and men and adds battle streamer to flag. RF-101 recon aircraft. President Kennedy speaks. Air force burial ceremony and formation of jets in flight.
The U.S. Naval fleet underway in the Pacific before Pearl Harbor. Italian narrator describing names and sizes of various ships including the USS Arizona,USS Oklahoma, USS West Virginia, USS California and USS New Mexico. Footage of the U.S. Pacific fleet ships in heavy seas with water crashing over their bows. Army Air Force biplanes take off from the deck of the USS Langley Aircraft Carrier. Sailors stand by as a biplane aircraft lands on the deck of the USS Langley (CV-1). Biplane aircraft on the deck of the USS Langley. Topic then changes to Air-Raid Defenses in and around Italian naval bases. Italian Sailors roll helium barrage balloon inflation tanks into ships. Sailors direct air into a balloon. Numerous barrage balloons in the sky. Soldiers prepare to release a balloon from a boat and fasten the metal cables. Deck guns in position. Soldiers observe through binoculars, telescopes, other instruments and monitor gauges and radar on a machine. A soldier talks on the radio from amidst sand bag barricades. Soldiers watch as two play a bacci ball game. They run to take their positions as a soldier signals incoming enemy aircraft. Enemy planes attack the Italian base. Explosions near ships in the water. A barrage balloon is hit and bursts into flames. Sailors fire anti aircraft artillery from behind a barricade. Mobile units dash to substitute the destroyed barrage balloon with a new one. Soldiers in a truck hold onto the new balloon and then release it. (World War II period).
Four U.S. security policemen pack and place supply package. U.S. military jeep in background. Four U.S. personnel board a HH-43B helicopter. Supply package dropped by a U.S. military helicopter HH-43B 'Huskie' at a observation post on Hill 151 overlooking Phu Cat Air Base. SP looks through binoculars toward valley.
Four new U.S. Security Policemen relieve old ones at Hill 151. Old Security Policemen board HH-43B 'Huskie' helicopter. U.S. Security Policeman opens supply package. U.S. Security Policemen carry supply items to observation post overlooking Phu Cat Air Base at Hill 151. U.S. Security Policemen place supplies near the tent post. U.S. Security Policeman looks towards the valley.
USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) during mission in Gulf of Tonkin during Vietnam War. Several aircraft, sailors and other crew members on the deck area near the ship's island structure. Number 65 in bold written on the lower portion of ship's island and A-4FSkyhawk aircraft moving on the deck. Pilot McGraw walks from the ship's island towards another aircraft parked on the deck. Lieutenant Michael McGraw inspects the aircraft engine and climbs up the port side to check the air intake. He gets inside the cockpit, tightens shoulder harness, wears helmet, shuts the canopy and takes off. Two A-4F Skyhawk aircraft landing and several other aircraft parked in background. Pilot McGraw steps down the aircraft ladder, walks with Commander Robert J. Thomas, commanding officer of attack squadron 113 who congratulates him on his 200th mission. Pilot McGraw walks on the deck passing by several aircraft parked near the ship's island. Another crew member lying and relaxing on the deck.
Hospital facilities at Camp Dong Tam. Typical outdoor covered walkway of a military hospital is seen at Camp Dong Tam, in Mekong Delta of South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Sign above the walkway identifies it as the 3rd Surgical Hospital. Camera pans sandbagged quonset huts housing elements of the hospital. Outdoor cooling unit with pipes running to provide air conditioning to quonset huts. Closeup of areas between sand bagged quonset huts. The feet of a soldier seen as he raises dust while walking across the barren terrain in the area.
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