An air stair moves toward Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000) at Andrews Air Force Base near Morningside, Maryland. The casket bearing the body of President John F. Kennedy is taken out of Air Force One. President Kennedy’s casket is loaded into the hearse. The hearse is followed by a group of staff cars. President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson stand at microphones to make comments to the press following the assassination of President Kennedy in Texas.
U.S. Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, under siege by North Vietnam Army forces during the Vietnam War. Several 105mm towed howitzers are positioned atop the base, with barrels at high elevations. Camera focuses on Gunners loading and firing one. The wind is blowing very hard, complicating their activity and causing the cameraman trouble too, as it buffets his camera. The camera views several guns operating in the battery. The Battery then level their guns to fire point blank at their targets. (They also increase their powder charge to 7, the maximum.) the resultant recoil strikes and injures SP/4 Bowing of a gun crew, who falls and is seen lying at the back of his gun. The crew calls for help and carries him to the ground. Cameraman stops filming briefly.. Next, a soldier is seen leaning over SP/4 Bowing, rendering aid.
Vietnamese Coastal Group junk base in Degi, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Aerial view: A river flowing. A heavily populated area. A junk base. A village and the junk base directly in the background. A pier extends over from a river bank.
Two United States Navy SEAL patrol members study a map while sitting by an open hatch of a helicopter. Behind them is a SEAL mans a machine gun in hatch. Aerial view of jungle growth and swampy water in the Rung Sat area of the Mekong Delta. Aerial view of the Rung Sat River and the Nha Be Navy Base. Camera pans to show aerial view of barges where Navy SEALS do fitness training. Aerial view of Nha Be Navy Base buildings.
Army Material Command (AMC) logistic support of United States Air Force Snark missile project in United States. Aerial view of the Edwards Air Force Base. A U.S. officer seated in his office talks on a phone. A Snark missile on a launcher is taken to a launchpad.
A scoop crane scooping grains from reserve and putting it into a big machine. Grains are packed in clothe bags. Cloth bags are transported in barges. Bags then carried in trucks to Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany. Trucks are lined up and several USAF (United States Air Force) planes in background. Bags are unloaded from trucks to plane during Berlin Airlift period.
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