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00:30:44 4.5 |
NARRATOR TELLS OF THE POTENT FORCE OF U.S. ARMS THAT HELD THE COMMUNISTS AT BAY DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS & IN GERMANY DURING BERLIN CRISIS,
EFFECTIVELY DETERRING NUCLEAR WAR BY VIRTUE OF IT'S STRENGTH. (THE COLD WAR) |
00:31:00 20.5 |
U. S. ARMY SOLDIERS CHECK RUSSIAN ARMY VEHICLES AT CHECKPOINT CHARLIE AT THE AMERICAN ZONE IN WEST GERMANY. U.S. OFFICER PATROLLING BORDER LOOKS THROUGH HIS BINOCULARS
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00:31:31 51.5 |
KHRUSHCHEV GESTURES WITH HIS ARM IN SPEECH AT THE UNITED NATIONS. MONTAGE FLEEING EAST GERMAN REFUGEES ENTERING THE WEST IN DROVES.
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00:32:15 95.5 |
U. S. SOLDIERS PATROL DE-MILITARIZED ZONE IN KOREA. MONTAGE- HOLES IN BUILDINGS ON ISLAND OF QUEMOY AFTER SHELLING BY RED CHINESE.
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00:32:52 132.5 |
CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: "TIBET TORN BY REVOLT". THOUSANDS OF TIBET REFUGEES ON ROAD TO INDIA TO ESCAPE THE RED TERROR.
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00:33:15 155.5 |
CROWDS OF VILLAGERS, MOSTLY CHILDREN RUN FROM BURNING VILLAGE IN VIETNAM.
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00:33:28 168.5 |
CASTRO WAVES HIS ARMS IN SPEECH TO MASSES AS HE BETRAYS OWN REVOLUTION AND EMBRACES COMMUNISM.
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00:33:40 180.5 |
FREEDOM LOVING CUBANS ARRIVE IN AMERICA ON PLANES TO ESCAPE CASTRO ARE EMBRACED BY THEIR AMERICAN FAMILIES
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00:33:53 193.5 |
NEW YORK SUNDAY NEWS HEADLINE: "RED CHINESE INVADE INDIA". MONTAGE- INDIAN CROWDS RALLY IN NEW DELHI. YOUNG MEN ARE WEIGHED IN PUBLIC FOR THE ARMY. MS- DOCTOR INSPECTS THEIR THIN BODIES AS THEY LINE UP
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00:34:33 233.5 |
MAO TSE TUNG REVIEWS HIS ARMED FORCES.
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00:35:18 278.5 |
NARRATOR TELLS OF ARMY'S CAPABILITIES TO CONDUCT "NASTY LITTLE WARS" AS WELL AS PREPARATION FOR BIG ONES WITH OBLIGATIONS TO NATO, U. N. AND OTHER ALLIANCES
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00:37:03 383.5 |
AERIAL ENTIRE ARMY ARMORED DIVISION ALL LINED UP AND BEING REVIEWED AT THEIR OUTPOST IN GERMANY.
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00:38:54 494.5 |
"HAWK", NIKE "AJAX", "SERGEANT", NIKE "HERCULES", SHOWN AT MISSILE SITES THROUGHOUT WESTERN EUROPE AS PART OF OUR DETERRENCE FORCE.
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00:40:12 572.5 |
JFK MAKING SPEECH ABOUT THE THREAT TO LAOS.
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00:41:00 620.5 |
MONTAGE- SPECIAL FORCES ADVISORS TRAIN VIETNAMESE VILLAGERS.
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00:41:34 654.5 |
MONTAGE CUBAN PEASANTS TRAIN AND MARCH WITH RIFLES. MONTAGE- CUBAN SOLDIERS EXECUTE CUBANS.
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00:41:53 673.5 |
MONTAGE RUSSIAN MALE AND FEMALE "TECHNICIANS" ARRIVE IN CUBA.
CUBAN WOMAN PINS A MEDAL ON KHRUSHCHEV IN CUBA. |
00:42:29 709.5 |
THOUSANDS OF CUBAN EXILES FILL STANDS IN U.S AND WAVE U. S. FLAGS AS THEY PROTEST CASTRO REGIME AND VOW TO RETURN TO CLAIM THEIR HOMELAND.
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00:42:36 716.5 |
NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM HEADLINE: "REBELS REPORTED CRUSHED BY CASTRO'S TANKS, PLANES", IN THE BAY OF PIGS FIASCO.
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00:42:42 722.5 |
MONTAGE SOME OF THE THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN BY CASTRO'S TROOPS MARCH DEJECTEDLY UNDER GUARD.
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00:43:24 764.5 |
HUGE VICTORY PARADES IN CUBA WITH LARGE PHOTOS OF CASTRO CARRIED BY THE CROWDS.
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00:44:45 845.5 |
U.S. TROOPS AND TANKS PRACTICE REALISTIC RIOT CONTROL WITH GIS IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES PLAYING A MOB
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00:45:48 908.5 |
JFK SPEAKS TO CONGRESS ASKS FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO MEET WORLD MILITARY NEEDS
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00:46:04 924.5 |
KHRUSHCHEV WAVES FROM OPEN LIMO AS PEOPLE CHEER HIS MOTORCADE. MONTAGE- STREAM OF REFUGEES FROM EAST GERMANY INCREASED TO MORE THAN 2000 A DAY. 4 MILLION HAVE FLED TO THE WEST SINCE 1945
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00:46:28 948.5 |
EAST BERLIN POLICE BEGIN ERECTING THE BERLIN WALL ON AUGUST 13, 1961
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00:47:17 997.5 |
EAST GERMAN MAN AND WOMAN RUN ACROSS TO THE WEST AS OTHERS HELP THEM THROUGH THE BARBED WIRE.
ADDITIONAL U.S. TROOPS ARE MET BY CHEERS OF WEST BERLIN PEOPLE AS THEY ROLL INTO THE CITY. |
00:49:53 1153.5 |
NATO FLAG WITH THE EIFFEL TOWER IN BACKGROUND
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00:50:38 1198.5 |
KHRUSHCHEV SPEAKS TO RUSSIAN POLITBURO WHO STAND AND APPLAUSE.
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00:50:40 1200.5 |
VILLAGE IN SOUTH VIETNAM BURNS. U. S. ADVISERS ASSIST SOUTH VIETNAMESE. SOUTH VIETNAM SOLDIERS SIT INSIDE U. S. HELICOPTER GOING ON A RAID.
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00:51:31 1251.5 |
ARMY HELICOPTER LANDING IN VIETNAM
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00:52:00 1280.5 |
PRIME MINISTER NEHRU REVIEWS HIS TROOPS.
MAKES A SPEECH TO HUGE CROWDS. OTHER INDIANS MAKE DRAMATIC APPEALS AS PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE SOLIDARITY |
00:52:26 1306.5 |
SHIRTLESS YOUNG MEN ARE WEIGHED AND MEASURED ON PUBLIC SCALES AS THEY JOIN THE ARMED FORCES. THEY SIT IN SQUATTING POSITIONS AWAITING THEIR TURN TO BE EXAMINED.
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00:52:57 1337.5 |
INDIRA GANDHI SPEAKS ON MIC TO THE CROWD.
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00:53:12 1352.5 |
MAO TSE TUNG SITS AT TABLE WITH HIS MILITARY LEADERS AS CHINA CEASES FIRE ON THE INDIANS.
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00:53:53 1393.5 |
KHRUSHCHEV WAVES HIS HAT FROM THE KREMLIN WALL DURING A MILITARY PARADE IN RED SQUARE.
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00:54:09 1409.5 |
CASTRO AND KHRUSHCHEV IN CROWD OUTSIDE UN BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY.
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00:54:18 1418.5 |
AERIAL PHOTOS SHOW BUILD UP OF ICBM MISSILES IN CUBA POINTED TOWARDS U.S.
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00:54:48 1448.5 |
JFK SPEAKS TO THE PEOPLE ON OCTOBER 22, 1962 TELLING OF A STRICT QUARANTINE OF SHIPS GOING TO CUBA HAS BEEN INITIATED AS THE CUBAN CRISIS BEGINS
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00:55:20 1480.5 |
MONTAGE U. S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS LAUNCH THEIR JET PLANES OFF CUBA. GROUND CREWS LOAD PLANES WITH BOMBS AND BULLETS AT HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE IN FLORIDA, AS JFK'S SPEECH IS HEARD.
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00:56:12 1532.5 |
AERIAL- SOVIET SHIPS SEEN SAILING TOWARDS CUBA
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00:57:09 1589.5 |
JFK VISITS AIR FORCE BASE.
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00:57:26 1606.5 |
NARRATOR TELLS OF SOVIETS GIVING IN TO THE CHALLENGE AND CONCLUDES HIS NARRATION.
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00:59:18 1718.5 |
"ARMY IN ACTION: THE FINEST TRADITION"
HISTORY OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER AND THE HABIT OF THE UNITED STATES OF DISARMING AFTER EACH CONFLICT AND PUTTING THE COUNTRY IN A POSITION OF MILITARY WEAKNESS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THROUGH WWII. |
00:59:23 1723.5 |
MONTAGE AMERICA'S SCENIC LANDSCAPES
DEER GRAZING IN THE WOODS, GREAT FOREST LANDS, MIGHTY RIVERS, BUFFALO ON THE VAST PLAINS, TOWERING MOUNTAINS, ROCKY MOUNTAINOUS DESERT. |
00:59:52 1752.5 |
MONTAGE REENACTMENT OF COLONIAL DAYS WITH MEN BUILDING LOG CABINS AND FORTIFICATIONS.
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01:00:06 1766.5 |
CU 2 AXES CHOPPING INTO TREE, ONE AFTER THE OTHER
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01:00:20 1780.5 |
MONTAGE REENACTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR SCENES, AND OUR FOREFATHERS MEETING TO WRITE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, BILL OF RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTION.
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01:01:00 1820.5 |
MONTAGE SCENES OF CIVIL WAR AND WWI FLASHING ON SCREEN.
STATUE OF MINUTEMAN. |
01:01:20 1840.5 |
MONTAGE REENACTMENT PIONEER IN BUCKSKINS WALKS FORWARD WITH HIS KENTUCKY RIFLE READY, MINUTEMAN, CONTINENTAL ARMY, WAR OF 1812, CIVIL WAR, WWI, GI JOE OF WWII AND KOREAN WAR SOLDIERS ALL WALKING FORWARD WITH RIFLE IN HAND. HISTORY OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS
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01:02:09 1889.5 |
SOLDIER SITING AT DESK LOOKS AT HIS WRITE IN BALLOT FOR VOTING AS ORDINARY CITIZEN CAN.
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01:03:11 1951.5 |
NARRATOR SPEAKS OF A COUNTRY THAT BY CHOICE HAS NEVER BEEN MILITARILY MINDED AND HOW IN WARS SUCH AS THE REVOLUTION, WAR OF 1812, CIVIL WAR, WWI AND WWII, WE HAD TO ACQUIRE STRENGTH.
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01:06:47 2167.5 |
GENERAL PATTON IS HELPED ASHORE IN SICILY FROM A LANDING CRAFT DURING WWII.
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01:07:40 2220.5 |
MACARTHUR WADING ASHORE IN PHILIPPINES.
SOLDIERS WAVE JAPANESE FLAGS AND WEAPONS ON JUNGLE ISLAND. DEAD AND WOUNDED BEING CARRIED IN STRETCHERS. |
01:08:39 2279.5 |
MONTAGE KOREAN WAR SCENES.
AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN TANKS FACE OFF AT BERLIN BORDER. |
01:10:18 2378.5 |
DRAWING DEPICT WASHINGTON SAYING A PRAYER AT VALLEY FORGE. REENACTMENT OF HARDSHIPS SUFFERED BY SOLDIERS MARCHING DURING BLIZZARD.
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01:10:35 2395.5 |
CU FEET OF U. S. SOLDIERS IN ARCTIC ALL WHITE CLOTHING MARCHING IN REVIEW, CONTRASTS WITH THE ILL-CLOTHED COLONIAL SOLDIER.
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01:10:55 2415.5 |
MONTAGE GIS WORK OUTDOORS IN CLOTHING SUITED TO THE CLIMATE TROPICAL OR ARCTIC.
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01:12:05 2485.5 |
CAVALRY CHARGES DURING CIVIL AND INDIAN WAR CONTRAST WITH THE TANKS SEEN ROLLING FORWARD DURING WWI, WWII AND TODAY'S ARMORED FORCES.
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01:13:09 2549.5 |
MONTAGE WWII 155MM, 8 INCH AND 250MM HOWITZERS REPRESENTED OUR ARTILLERY, ALL SHOWN BEING FIRED. IN CONTRAST A GROUND-TO-GROUND MISSILE IS FIRED.
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01:13:48 2588.5 |
ANTI-AIRCRAFT CREW FEEDS SHELLS INTO CANNON AND FIRES AT ENEMY AIRCRAFT. IN CONTRAST GROUND-TO-AIR GUIDED MISSILES ARE FIRED WHICH CAN ALSO KNOCK DOWN IN-COMING MISSILES.
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01:14:28 2628.5 |
CO-PILOT IN REAR SEAT OF WWI PLANE DROPS A BOMB, BY HAND, FROM HIS COCKPIT SEAT
BOMBS EXPLODE AMID THE TRENCHES. GERMAN AND ALLIED PLANES IN A DOG FIGHT IN WWI. |
01:14:44 2644.5 |
CO-PILOT FIRES AT A PASSING ENEMY PLANE WITH HIS RIFLE. FILM OF WWII DOG FIGHTS. MONTAGE PARATROOPS JUMPING FROM PLANES IN MODERN WARFARE. ENTIRE UNITS WITH THEIR VEHICLES BOARD PLANES
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01:17:04 2784.5 |
MONTAGE IN OPERATION "BIG LIFT" WHEN 15,000 COMBAT-READY U. S. SOLDIERS WERE AIRLIFTED FROM FORT HOOD, TEXAS TO GERMANY IN OCTOBER 1963
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01:20:21 2981.5 |
PHOTOS OF GENERALS GRANT, LEE, PERSHING, EISENHOWER, BRADLEY, MACARTHUR, CLARK, TAYLOR AND PATTON, ALL GRADUATES OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT WHO SERVED COUNTRY IN 3 GREAT WARS
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01:21:32 3052.5 |
CU NARRATOR TALKS OF MAN, THE "ULTIMATE WEAPON" AND SHOWS A MODEL OF A BRAIN ON HIS DESK.
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01:25:00 3260.5 |
ACTORS POSING IN UNIFORMS OF ROGERS RANGERS, COLONIAL, WAR OF 1812, UNION, WWI, WWII KOREAN OLDIERS STAND AT ATTENTION AND YELL "HERE SIR" AS THEIR NAMES ARE CALLED (PAN).
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01:26:24 3344.5 |
BLACK HONOR GUARD SOLDIER GUARDING THE GRAVE OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AT ARLINGTON.
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