United States 321st Regiment, 81st Infantry Division board LSTs for Peleliu Island during the Battle of Angaur in World War II. A ship leaves the port while soldiers wait for another ship. Infantry troops clear the jungle while searching for Japanese snipers on Angaur Island. A soldier hacks away tree branches. 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” troops clear away leaves, branches, and vegetation. Bulldozers clearing bushes, debris, and soil. A road roller with spikes flattens ground. A soldier spins the propeller of a Piper L-4 Grasshopper scout plane to start it. The plane taxiing and taking off from the newly built airfield.
Aircraft from the Imperial Iranian Air Force fleet includes United States McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Northrop F-5 fighter jets. A row of Northrop F-5 fighter jets at an airfield in Iran. Sign in English and Persian reads “31st T.F. (Tactical Fighter) Squadron”. Imperial Iranian Air Force pilots attend class. A map of the Middle East showing flight paths, radii, flags of the various Air Forces in the region. Flags and roundels of the Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon. A bomb is installed into a jet fighter-bomber. A fuze is fitted into the bomb nose. A man wearing a jacket with an “F-5 Iran” patch. Iranian military pilots run out of a building and board trucks.
Imperial Iranian Air Force pilots climb into Northrop F-5 fighter jets in Iran. Bombs mounted under the wings of the fighters. Aircraft canopies of F-5 fighters close. Northrop F-5 fighter jets taxiing and taking off from runway of airfield. A formation of Iranian Northrop F-5 fighter jets in flight.
President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia arrives at Washington National Airport for a state visit to the United States. State flags of the United States and its territories held by troops in airfield. President Habib Bourguiba climbs down air stair of a Military Air Transport Service jet airplane and shakes hands with President John F. Kennedy. President Bourguiba’s wife, Mrs. Moufida Bourguiba (née Mathilde Lorrain), shakes hands with Mrs.Jacqueline Kennedy. While President Habib Bourguiba shakes hands with a military officer while Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke is seen between them making introductions. A motorcade with the United States presidential parade car in Washington DC. Presidents Kennedy and Bourguiba leave the presidential car while Jackie Kennedy and Moufida Bourguiba meet their husbands.
United States Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration at the 27th Paris Air Show in Le Bourget Airport as part of its European Tour during the Cold War. People watch a lone Blue Angels aircraft (Grumman-built F-11A Tigers) flying low over the airfield leaving a streamer of white smoke. A pair of Blue Angels' aircraft in formation over the field. Blue Angels' seen climbing steeply in formation, leaving streams of pink and blue smoke. Front view of a Blue Angels aircraft in box formation on fly-over leaving streamers of smoke. Blue Angels aircraft climbing, turning sharply, leaving streamers of smoke in the sky. An aircraft flying over the field, moving in to inverted flight. Front view of the Blue Angels aircraft in box formation, the aircraft begin parting, moving away from each other and closing back in single type formation, making a speed dive off to the left and back into box formation.
A Vietnamese bay at sunrise. Rooster crowing. Water buffaloes grazing in farm field. A native Vietnamese bird perched on a plant. Farmer wearing nón lá hat plants rice in rice field. Alarm clock wakes a United States soldier. The soldier pulls away mosquito net and rises from his bed. Soldiers taking cold showers in communal shower room with bamboo walls. Mechanical personnel arrive at an American airbase. A U.S. Air Force fighter jet is parked in airfield. A young mechanic wipes the sweat off his forehead. The mechanics start their work. A horse cart in a street market in South Vietnam. Man pushing a cart of sugar cane, girls walk behind him. Vietnamese natives shopping in busy street. Cars and pedestrians pass by a sentry checkpoint.
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