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Not For Conquest - Facing Communist Aggression

01:00:32:00

Various scenes at Arlington National Cemetery, seven man party of riflemen fires three volleys, bugler sounds Taps at military funeral. CU of Taps Bugler sounding Taps. Scenes of the tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery, scene of a father kneeling at a tombstone.

01:01:25:02

LS of the Pentagon, civilian and military personnel entering Pentagon. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses a news conference in the 1960's. Secretary McNamara shows a captured Chinese made machine gun at a news conference as he reports on Communist aggression in South Vietnam. Secretary McNamara points to a wall map and traces out the supply routes used by Communist North Vietnam to move arms into South Vietnam. Shows news reporters taking notes at a news conference.

01:02:41:00

HD color footage of atomic bomb blast and mushroom cloud. Scene of troops in trenches as an atomic bomb is detonated at U.S. desert test site, Mercury, Nevada. Atomic bomb blast effects. Shows destructive power of atomic bomb on buildings.

01:03:51:12

Antennas and underground control center for U.S. BMEWS Warning System Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Shows ballistic missile in underground silo. Shows U.S. Air Force officer flipping switch to launch U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ICBM from underground silo. Polaris missile being loaded into missile tube of polaris nuclear submarine. Nuclear submarine at sea. Polaris missile launch control center on submarine. Launch of Polaris missile from submerged submarine, B-52 bomber, capable of delivering nuclear weapons, taking off and in flight. Nuclear bomb detonated under water in the Pacific Ocean and the massive wall of water that was produced by this Pacific ocean underwater nuclear bomb test.

01:05:48:20

Montage of military men, planes, ship, and weapons. U.S. Special Forces Soldier in jungle, Anti-aircraft turret mounted twin machine guns, Jet fighters taking off, Tank maneuvering, Navy destroyer USS Preston DD-795, UH-1 Huey helicopter with rocket pods, Head-on shot of C-130 Hercules Transport plane taking off, Parachute canopies filling the sky, Army soldiers, launch of missile.

01:06:32:23

White House, President John F Kennedy introduces Robert McNamara as new Secretary of Defense at a news conference in 1961. Sign on door reads Joint Chiefs Of Staff Conference Room. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara meeting with Joint Chiefs of Staff JCS. Various scenes of Department of Defense DOD personnel at work.

01:07:37:11

Introduction of new military weapons in the 1960's. Scenes of a Army helicopter taking off. Roll out of General Dynamics F-111 Fighter-bomber in 1964, scenes of F-111 in flight. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft plane in flight, underwater launch of Polaris A-3 missile from submarine. Nike-X later model of the Nike-Zeus anti-ballistic missile intercepting and destroying a ballistic missile. Launch of nuclear powered, ballistic missile submarine in the 1960's.

01:10:31:17

U.S. weapons of war demonstrated in 1965. Artillery gun loaded and fired, rockets are fired from naval ship, Air Force fighter F-100D? fires rocket, Huge fireballs from napalm bombs dropped from fighter-bomber, shows ship launched torpedo, tank is destroyed by aircraft launched rockets, spectacular fire-balls of napalm bombs exploding on ground targets. Using charts, Secretary of Defense McNamara describes the Department of Defense DOD cost reduction programs at news conference in 1965.

01:15:01:14

World events in Cold War years of 1960's. Brief scenes of Brandenburg Gate and Berlin Wall in Berlin Germany 1961. Brief scenes of Russian missiles in Cuba in 1962. U.S. Destroyer, sailors and naval gun fire at night depict Gulf of Tonkin incident involving the destroyer USS Maddox and North Vietnam torpedo boats. Launching of U.S. planes from aircraft carrier for attack on North Vietnam torpedo boat bases in response to Gulf of Tonkin attack.

01:16:31:22

Scenes of destruction caused by San Salvador earthquake May 3, 1965. Aid provided and delivered by U.S. Military personnel to people of San Salvador. Field kitchen set-up to feed the homeless and tent cities erected for shelter. U.S. aid to people when natural disasters strike.

01:17:27:00

Operation Power Pack the U.S. Marines and the 82nd Airborne intervene and restore order in the Dominican Republic in 1965. Scenes of fighting in Santo Domingo. American civilians and other Nationals were escorted to airport under military escort. U.S. Forces deployed and fight in city streets of Santo Domingo. After order was restored food was distributed and medical care was provided to the people of the Dominican Republic.

01:19:08:00

Vietnam War footage. Army of the Republic of Viet Nam ARVN soldiers fighting the the guerrilla fighters of the Vietnam National Liberation Front VNAF or Vietcong. Various scenes of ARVN soldiers in combat and on patrol wading through rice paddies and through the jungle. Viet-cong prisoners captured by the ARVN soldiers. Several helicopters in low flight over flooded rice paddies of Vietnam. U.S. aircraft damaged and destroyed by Vietcong raid on U.S. airbase in Vietnam. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara holds news conference to tell of U.S. response to Vietcong attack on U.S air base in Vietnam by striking North Vietnam military facilities and supply routes used to infiltrate men and materials into South Vietnam. U.S. aircraft firing rockets and strafing ground targets in North Vietnam.

01:23:20:03

Piasecki H-21 Shawnee Troop transport helicopter landing and unloading ARVN soldiers. Camouflaged tanks used by ARVN soldiers in South Vietnam. At a news conference Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara explains why U.S. ground combat units troops will be deployed sent to South Vietnam. Build-up of U.S. ground forces in South Vietnam. American ground combat forces troops arriving in South Vietnam by plane, by ship, and by landing craft.

01:25:08:03

U.S. troops deployed to Vietcong strongholds. Shows troops transported by UH1 Huey helicopters to start of patrol in Vietnam, U.S. troops on patrol in Vietnam. Airstrikes by U.S. fighter-bombers. B-52 Stratofortress bombers carpet bombing area in Vietnam, ground explosions as bombs strike target. B-52 bombers in flight over South Vietnam. U.S. Navy ships fire guns in naval bombardment of South Vietnam coastline in support of combat troops. Door gunner on helicopter firing gun. CU of track-mounted artillery firing at unseen enemy targets. CU of Vietcong prisoners. Dust-off medical evacuation helicopter, wounded U.S. soldier placed onboard. CU of Red Cross symbol emblem and Dust Off on side of helicopter. Flag draped caskets of two U.S. Servicemen killed in Vietnam. Flag draped caskets are loaded onto aircraft plane after the two servicemen are honored.

01:28:03:21

Closing speech by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

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