1940-1969MILITARY
Vietnam War Era U. S. Army and Air National Guard with cameos of Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller.
Various training and field exercises in military camps throughout America.
Footage of National Guardsmen trying to restore peace after various riots. Natural disaster. Photos and footage of prominent military guardsman and others including President Harry S. Truman
Various training and field exercises in military camps throughout America.
Footage of National Guardsmen trying to restore peace after various riots. Natural disaster. Photos and footage of prominent military guardsman and others including President Harry S. Truman
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| 03:17:09 10.82 |
Film opens, U. S. Army tanks head toward camera on a dirt road. Cut to film narrator, Actor Bob Hope, kneels in the bush wearing a National Guard shirt and beret and introduces the film about today's Army and International National Guard
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| 03:17:25 26.27 |
CU Army tank, Army men shooting machine guns at tanks during field exercises
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| 03:17:53 54.2 |
Actor Bob Hope hides in the bushes, asks if coast is clear, then gets up, grabs his golf club and takes a swing
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| 03:18:10 71.21 |
Fade out
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| 03:18:12 73.58 |
More Army training and field exercises. FS Army tank (an M42) driving along dirt road
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| 03:18:29 90.33 |
Virginia Army National Guardsmen in the field set off a radio controlled aerial target. It flies through the air as shots are fired at it from the field.
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| 03:19:08 129.22 |
Army men aim and shoot the M42 Duster, an anti aircraft gun - at the aerial target.
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| 03:19:48 169.35 |
Aerial target is hit and floats down out of the sky by parachute
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| 03:20:08 189.56 |
Army National Guard on a training exercise In Michigan, they study maps prior to the exercise. A helicopter lands and military men jump off and are being shot at as they run across a field
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| 03:21:17 258.1 |
A stream of fire and smoke shoots out of a fire hose used in Army Guard combat exercise. Smoke bombs set off by the Guard
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| 03:21:47 288.65 |
Army Guard watch as a rocket is unloaded. Rocket is fired and takes off
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| 03:22:11 312.12 |
Army Guardsmen on an airfield, dressed in full combat geer, prepare to board a West Virginia Air Guard plane for a mission. They carry their heavy equipment onto the plane. Shots of the Guardsmen, all volunteers, sitting on the int. floor of the plane, lined up close to each other and holding onto their personal equipment in the aircraft
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| 03:22:55 356.45 |
Army insignia on tail of plane
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| 03:23:17 378.15 |
FS Rhode Island Army Guardsmen on the water in a raft practice an inflitration exercise. A Rhode Island Air Guard plane flies overhead
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| 03:23:29 390.35 |
An Army amphibian aircraft lands in the ocean. The Guardsmen on the raft are picked up by the aircraft, they float right into the hull of the boat
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| 03:24:12 433.87 |
Arial pan of snowy mountainous terrain, lake with snow capped mountains, wildlife in Yellowstone, Montana
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| 03:24:34 455.1 |
Pan up rocky cliffside. Montana Special Forces Guardsmen are seen working their way to the top of the barren cliff
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| 03:24:49 470.44 |
Var shots of Guardsmen as they climb down and using ropes, repel off the rocky cliffside
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| 03:25:16 497.05 |
WSs Guardsmen ski down a snowy mountain. They gather together for a brief outdoor planning session. Guardsmen are then seen on foot in the snow quietly looking for their object. Guardsmen shoot using bows and arrows (training session so object is a dummy).
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| 03:26:23 564.87 |
WS beautiful body of water in Hawaii - Guardsmen are seen on patrol. Guardsman uses a large walkie talkie. A helicopter flies overhead for aerial support
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| 03:26:57 598.19 |
FS Guardmen drive a jeep covered with camouflage and with ammunition
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| 03:27:07 608.48 |
Gurardmen run across a field with rifles on a combat training mission
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| 03:27:12 613.27 |
FS a field where military men are hidden in the brush
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| 03:27:35 636.11 |
FS Guardsman aims a grenade launcher and shoots
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| 03:27:41 642.81 |
Guardsmen operate a 106mm recoilless rifle
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| 03:28:04 665.86 |
FS the Airguard's radar station in Hawaii, 4,000 feet high shrouded in fog
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| 03:28:29 690.95 |
Guardsmen technicians receive and interpret the information sent by the radar station. Guardsman writes backwards on a transparent wall
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| 03:28:51 712.7 |
Jet fighters in the air, rendezvous with other jets, F-84s, to gas up. Great shots of planes gassing up while in flight
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| 03:30:32 813.22 |
Air Guardsman in a classroom receive a briefing for an air mission in Hawaii. Var shots of the pilots, all volunteers, in their cockpits, taking off and dropping bombs (practice)
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| 03:33:44 1005.72 |
Planes take off from aircraft carrier. Cloevhitch (sp?) a massive military operation in the Caribbean involved all military services. Marine helicopters landing. Air Guardsmen in the field train for a mission. Guardsmen playact as protesters as the Guardsmen try to enforce order
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| 03:35:04 1085.05 |
Real life mob on the streets in Illinois. Guardsmen try to restore order.
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| 03:35:24 1105.39 |
Scenes from the Watts riots. fire damage and building destruction. Smoke filled sky. Guardsmen in action
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| 03:35:53 1134.92 |
Scenes in the streets of a riot in Detroit. Pan across fires, ruined property from looters. Guardsmen on tanks driving down the streets. fire trucks guarded by the National Guardsmen, 2 per fireman for protection. A Guardsman stands guard holds rifle, ready for action
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| 03:36:32 1173.56 |
Aerial pan over a flood in Kansas. Guardsmen on the scene helping people, filling sandbags along the riverbanks, army trucks drive through flood waters, helicopters in the air search for people who need rescuing
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| 03:37:19 1220.27 |
Guardsmen help out after tornado damage in Oaklawn Illinois. Guardmen search through debris, help fight fires. Pan across the shattered ruins of collapsed buildings.
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| 03:37:56 1257.36 |
National Guard Red Cross truck. Var shots of the nurses and aeromedical personnel on the job aiding injured military and civilian patients
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| 03:38:52 1313.97 |
Actor Bob Hope holds golf club over his shoulder, makes joke about good looking nurses
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| 03:38:57 1318.37 |
Actress Comedian Phyllis Diller cameo - plays a "beautiful nurse"
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| 03:39:13 1334.28 |
Var stills and drawings , George Washington, injured military men, Abraham Lincoln
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| 03:39:46 1367.27 |
Live footage Harry S. Truman, served as an artillary officer.
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| 03:39:57 1378.71 |
Renderings, photos and live footage of various prominent National Guard heroes: Charles Lindbergh, General Wheeler, Curtis LeMay, Brigadeer General Charles W. Sweeney, Brigadeer General Joseph J. Foss, Captain Larry B. Mason,
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| 03:41:40 1481 |
BOBBY RYDELL PERFORMING AT THE CARIBE HILTON IN PUERTO RICO
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| 03:41:47 1488.43 |
More footage of prominent National Guardsmen, NFL player Bob Willy, Dallas Cowboys; Bob Hayes, Cowboys; Gary Anderson, sharpshooter, Astronaut Russel 'Rusty' L. Schweichart; and Astronaut Donald K. Slayton
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| 03:43:45 1606.13 |
Nasa rocket taking off into outer space
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| 03:45:14 1695.42 |
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