Operation New Life in the United States. The American ship' Trans Colorado' with Vietnamese refugees arrives at a port. General Harry W. Brooks, Junior speaks to an Admiral and other officers. Civilian takes pictures of the officers. Vietnamese refugees disembark from the ship. Sick and old refugees in wheelchairs.
Air Chief Marshall Roy Slemon speaking, memorabilia of Jacqueline Cochran can be seen. Awards of Miss Cochran in a display case at United States Air Force Academy.
Describes European immigration to America from 1880 to 1914. Elderly European immigrants recall their experiences to interviewers in 1975. Still photo montage scenes circa 1900: Immigration officer with a woman. Large number of immigrants wait for immigration check at Ellis Island. Children lined up. Immigrants at port and going through health examinations. During physical examination, immigrants with disease of Trachoma marked and segregated. In 1975 an old lady describes her experience of being misdiagnosed with Trachoma and almost sent back to Russia. She was reexamined and allowed to remain in America.
Jacqueline Cochran in a hall in United States Air Force Academy, Colorado. Miss Cochran talks to Colonel Joe H. Engel, Brigadier General Charles E. Yeager (Chuck Yeager) and other important persons. Lieutenant General James R. Allen addressing the gathering, Miss Cochran with Sabre Plaque Award, memorabilia of Miss Cochran in background and Mr. Floyd B. Odlum in wheelchair.
Famous female aviator Jacqueline Cochran at United States Air Force Academy, Colorado. Miss Cochran in conversation with five cadets while walking. The woman and the cadets standing by fledgling eagle statue.
Mix of period footage circa 1910, retrospective interviews in 1975, and some still images. European immigration in bad travel conditions to America. View from rail on deck of a ship in heavy seas. An elderly European immigrant recalls his experiences of the journey on ship to America. Ship in Atlantic Ocean. Picture of European immigrants on ship deck. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Early 1900s period footage of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and disembarking from ship, then walking with luggage for processing at Ellis Island. Some immigrants peer across New York Harbor at the skyline of New York city. Scene change to 1975 and views of interiors of a no longer used building in Ellis Island. Names of persons carved on walls. A man shares his experience as an immigrant passing through Ellis Island, and then as an immigration inspector reviewing new immigrants as they arrived.
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