A film on rescue work by the U.S. Coast Guard. A ship underway in the Atlantic Ocean. The bow of the ship. A man and a woman aboard the ship. A man at the controls of the ship. Other boats and ships underway. The woman gets injured. The man at the controls establishes a contact with a U.S. Coast Guard aircraft for help. The aircraft in flight overhead. A man gives a red flare signal to the aircraft. The aircraft in flight over the ship. A man presses a button of a rescue alarm and alerts Coast Guard crew. Coast Guard crew board a helicopter. They inspect the helicopter. The helicopter takes off and is in flight. The helicopter hovers over the ship. A line is dropped from the helicopter to the ship. A stretcher is dropped with the help of the line. A man places the injured woman on the stretcher and she is taken aboard the helicopter. The helicopter in flight. It lands. The woman is taken out from the helicopter and is placed in an ambulance. The ambulance leaves the area. The helicopter in flight overhead.
A dozen South Vietnamese farmers walk side-by-side in a large rice paddy, spraying their crop. Outline map of Vietnam and environs is superimposed on the moving scene. Two farmers threshing crop by hand. Two farmers pounding rice with a foot operated wooden device. A steam shovel lifting mineral-bearing earth. Vietnamese workers using hand tools to loosen ore and push it down the side of a hill, where another is seen pushing a small rail car loaded with ore. A worker cutting a rubber tree on a plantation, to collect its natural latex. Latex being processed in a factory. Workers in a spinning facility and others weaving large rolls of cloth by machine.
Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Balloon and gondola rising. Captain Kittinger descending by parachute.
Preflight preparations for Operation Excelsior III, parachuted by Captain Joseph Kittinger in the United States. Preflight preparations, shows technicians rigging balloon to gondola. Crew men moving near around gondola. Views of gondola on truck trailer.
Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Balloon with gondola rising. Balloon with gondola in flight. Views of balloon, ascending.
Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Balloon with gondola rising. Captain Kittinger descending by parachute. A helium balloon with an open gondola lands. Captain Kittinger on ground. He is wearing a pressurized suit.