Sweeping camera pan view of the war ridden city of Veracruz in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Shows the shoreline and distant town settlements and buildings, as seen from sand dunes.
Shows General Francisco Beltran and his cavalry troops at a hill side near Veracruz in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. They view the city through binoculars from a distant hill side before an attack. Scene changes to shattered glass windows of a building. Two men ascend a latter and camera view widens to show hole from shelling in side of building, and blown out windows.
Shows Federal Mexican warships at anchor in a harbor at Veracruz in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. View of the Castillo de San Juan de UlĂșa (Castle of San Juan de Ulua) as seen from the water. Several other vessels underway in the harbor.
U.S. aviators of the 1st Aero Squadron pose in front of a Curtiss JN-3 airplane their base in Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916. The rest of their aircraft are lined up, parked, side by side. Scene shifts abruptly to views of camp below, from an airplane flying above it. Pilot is seen in open cockpit.
U.S. Army soldiers arrive at a training encampment by train. Soldiers in training each firing a pistol at targets on an open field. Groups of soldiers prone in a line firing rifles, then running across a field. The troops mount a wall obstacle. Again they lie prone and fire across a field. The troops are in training for mission to Veracruz Mexico following the Tampico Affair.
Mexican Federal Army cavalry and troops seen marching through the "burning plains" of Veracruz during the Mexican Revolution. Some of the forces are on horseback wearing wide sombreros. Others are in Army uniforms. The armed troops and cavalry seen marching.