Air strike missions in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of Viet Cong military structures as seen from a United States Air Force (USAF) A-1E Skyraider bomber aircraft piloted by Repp of U.S. 1st Air Commando Squadron. Aerial view of smoking targets. A BLU-32B bomb explosion.
Air strike missions in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of a target area as seen from a United States Air Force (USAF) A-1E Skyraider bomber aircraft piloted by Vaughn and Gunster of U.S. 1st Air Commando Squadron. Arms cache and cratering trail of cluster bomb units. Smoke rise due to explosion.
Air strike missions in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of rockets and cluster bomb units released as seen from a United States Air Force (USAF) A-1E Skyraider bomber aircraft piloted by Gassman of U.S. 1st Air Commando Squadron. Bomb explosions on targets such as bunkers, caves and troops.
USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Naval officers and sailors discuss over a map on a table. Animated map depicts Japanese fleet positions on the Truk Atoll of Islands. USS Yorktown Navy flier squadron and squadrons from other carriers take off for combat over the Truk Islands. Sailors talk over the radio aboard USS Yorktown. A map shows the heavily fortified islands surrounded by air strips, and naval anchorages among the islands. Crewmen aboard Yorktown prepare the planes for take off. Machine gun fire from the planes over the Truk Islands. They dive bomb the island. The aircraft are hit and descend to the ground. A plane drops into the ocean. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese planes on fighter strips, bomb bases and sea plane ranches. Smoke due to heavy bombardment. Planes dive and drop bombs. Fire due to bombing of a fast fleet tanker hiding in a sheltered cove. U.S. bombers and fighter planes strafe other fleet auxiliaries including rice boats, transports and ammunition ships. They are set on fire with 50 caliber incendiaries and armor piercing plugs. The ships on fire sink into the ocean.
Mission over secret enemy dispersal base: bombing in Beauvis, France. U.S. Army Air Force bomb group in flight to hit bombs over target. Aerial views of targets in city. Smoke rises over targets. (World War II period).
Recon Marines from 1st Force Reconnaissance Company Test Unit 1 demonstrate free fall parachuting. A sign identifies the Auxiliary Landing Field at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California. (Narrator refers to the marines as para-scouts of the 1st Marine Division.) The marines, wearing back and chest parachute packs, board a U.S. Navy Grumman S2F aircraft with tail code "RZ" and number 136777. It taxis on the ramp and is next seen taking off from the runway. Two helicopters are parked on the airfield ramp. Next, viewed from the aircraft, a marine is seen in free fall. Soon he appears as only a speck , approaching the ground. Next, he is seen, from the ground, as his chute finally opens, and he lands, and begins to spill air from his billowing chute on the ground.
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