United States soldiers in Saint Malo, France. United States Soldiers look through telescopic device on hill. Smoke-column rises up from the port in harbor. Coastline in view. Houses and mountains in the background. A soldier looks through a window. Fort across the channel. Bomb explosions in the city. Smoke rises up. U.S. fighter aircraft P-38 Lightning bombing fort. (World War II period).
Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. Trainee paratroopers train at Fort Benning. They undergo obstacle courses. The paratroopers don equipment. Captain Lilyman as an officer speaks to the trainees. Aircraft in flight. The paratroopers aboard an airborne airplane. View from chest mounted camera of a paratrooper with a cigar in his mouth as he descends, smiling, toward the ground with his parachute open. The paratroopers drop from the airplane with parachutes and descend.
A report on United States Air Force C-123B assault transport aircraft performance at Fort Bragg military installation in North Carolina. Infantry troops walks over a sandy ground during a simulated assault mission at Fort Bragg military installation. The troops board a C-123B provider transport aircraft. Three C-123Bs land at Sicily Drop Zone. The troops get off the C-123Bs. Vehicles unloaded from the C-123Bs. The aircraft taxi along rough field.
Various places in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Spanish Fort San Cristobal. Various views of the fort. Various statues and buildings. People at a marketplace. A beach area with palm trees. A hut surrounded by the palm trees.
Shore area and a fort in Sicily after Allied bombings during World War II. Shoreline of Sicily. Exteriors of a building along the shore. USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) sign on the door of a building. Cliffs on beach area. Road leading to the fort. Small craft moves on water off the coast.
The funeral procession of USN (United States Navy) Rear Admiral Richard Byrd at Fort Meyer Chapel in Virginia. Several gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. Pallbearers carry a casket out of a hearse and take it into Fort Meyer Chapel. The pallbearers walk under a canopy. A drill team at attention in front of the chapel. A horse-drawn caisson arrives at the chapel.