Israeli troops attempt to take over Sinai and approach the Suez Canal during the Six-Day War, with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan seen speaking on the matter

soldiers move through destroyed buildings in Saigon, Vietnam.

Soldier braking wooden stick

Soldiers on footpath

An aerial view shows men, women, and children enjoying a swimming pool at a resort in Korea

Flag Over Iwo Jima

Aircraft carrier at sea

Screener: History in Action - One False Step

Liberation of France

Swordfish aircraft taking off

Survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp discuss their liberation.

Roger Chaffee's funeral procession passes through Arlington.

City life

Hitler & Nazis 1921-1935

A mushroom cloud rises from the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

National Guardsmen are called in to help quell the Watts riots and race riots in Detroit in the 1960s (narrated by Bob Hope)

Part of an interview with Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner, about labor and punishment at the camp with other prisoners in the background

Surrounded by other liberated prisoners, a survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp describes the living conditions and the hope felt when American liberators came.

Airstrike Against ISIS

American soldiers patrol the Demilitarized Zone in Korea, inspecting the barbed wire.

Jewish refugees from Europe arrive in Palestine

Destroyer at sea

Bread is distributed to survivors of the liberated Dachau concentration camp.

Submarine surfacing

A US Navy sailor is buried at sea on the USS Oriskany.

Bethlehem is left unscarred in the Six-Day War, and Israeli troops regain control of Jerusalem, where Defense Minister Moshe Dayan prays at the Wailing Wall

Crowds line the streets of Washington DC to see JFK's casket pulled by in his funeral procession.

An ARVN soldier distributes candies from a large plastic bag to civilians. Soldiers bending over bushes to search for a chichom booby trap.

Soldiers releasing barrage balloon

Women operate the air draft machines which put V-Mail onto microfilm. Men develop the film and load mail bags.

Formation of five spitfire fighters

British soldiers inspect the rubble of the bombed Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.

soldiers move through destroyed buildings in Saigon, Vietnam.

V-Mail

The history of nuclear bomb testing is shown

Atomic bomb damage sustained by war plants in Nagasaki.

Small naval vessel

The atomic bomb explodes in Nagasaki, Japan

US Navy Prime Cuts

Anti-war students go on strike at Columbia University, demanding the school stop affiliating with the Defense Department.

Old submarine submerging in choppy sea

The Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice inspect the assembly line of a war plant in Seattle.

9/11 aftermath

Part of an interview with Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner at Dachau concentration camp, about how you had to harden and survive at Dachau, with other prisoners listening in the background

Close-ups show emotional crowds present for JFK's funeral procession through Washington DC. Soldiers stand by in salute.

Hampden bomber crews approaching

American students at Columbia University and French students at the Sorbonne protest the Vietnam War.

Hampden bomber revving up and taxiing round

Dagmar Wilson leads woman Against nuclear weapons in the 1960s.

Construction workers work on the steel beams of an air force hangar.

Panorama of air force hangars under construction.

Bridge of Warship from behind funnel

Albanian Nazi victim describes medical conditions inside the Dachau concentration camp in WW2.

Armed Forces enter Germany towards Berlin

British soldiers inspect the rubble of the bombed Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.

Submarine at sea

Section of deck of battleship

Six Hurricane planes flying

A US Navy sailor is buried at sea on the USS Oriskany.

Israeli troops capture Syrian and Palestinian POWs during the Six-Day War.

Men of the US Armed Forces march in front of JFK's casket for his funeral procession through Washington DC

Cranes lower girders at an air force hangar construction site.

Adlai Stevenson's eulogy for JFK is heard as mourners watch his funeral procession.

Men operating Pom-Pom gun

M.G.B. on sea

Street-level views show JFK's funeral procession, including his horse-drawn casket.

soldiers move through destroyed buildings in Saigon, Vietnam.

Aircraft carrier and another ship

Part of an interview with Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner at Dachau concentration camp, about prisoners needing to be fed after having been tortured, with other prisoners listening in the background

Vietnamese refugees are processed in Guam

A female war correspondent prepares questions for a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp.

An Army basecamp in Vietnam has tents, trucks, supplies and an airstrip that a warplane takes off from

Tanks travelling across open country

Microfilm is used to send V mail to American servicemen overseas.

Civilian families flee war-torn Saigon as South Vietnamese soldiers fight rebels there.

The Duke of Athlone and his wife, Princess Alice of Albany, pose with Admiral Byrd aboard one of his ships before disembarking together.

V-Mail is processed and sorted

Prisoners marching

Cruiser steaming with land in background

Atomic bomb damage sustained by a Mitsubishi factory and other defense plants in Nagasaki.

Battle of Midway

Liberated Dachau prisoners mill about the street outside the camp.

Anthracite coal production has dropped in a mining town in Pennsylvania

Part of an interview with Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner at Dachau concentration camp, about the punishment of a young German painter, who then died, with other prisoners listening in the background

Royal Air Force Vehicle and barrage balloon

Mourners gather to see JFK's funeral procession as Chief Justice Warren eulogizes him.

Spitfire in flight

Last part of an interview with Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner at Dachau concentration camp, about how you had harden and survive at Dachau, with other prisoners listening in the background,

Bridge of warship showing officer and rating at lamp

Rules for writing V-Mail are explained.

Wormwood Scrubs

TONGA: ROYAL FAMILY

The Kennedys and Johnsons feature prominently at JFK's funeral procession down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Row of Gloster Gladiator planes

Crew approaching Hampden bomber

Part of an interview with Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner at Dachau concentration camp, about hanging on your arms as a punishment together with 35 other prisoners, with other prisoners listening in the background,

Part of an interview with Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner at Dachau concentration camp, about the punishment of 25 lashes or more, with other prisoners listening in the background

Italian soldiers construct the Atlantic Wall.

Air Strikes and Night Vision in Iraq & Afghanistan

After liberation, Albanian journalist talks about his occupation before being imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp during WW2

Prisoners marching