The damaged USS Franklin arrives at Brooklyn Navy yard in New York after the Japanese attack during World War II. U.S. Navy officers aboard the USS Franklin at Brooklyn Navy yard. Lieutenant Commander T.J. Grenee, Lieutenant Fred Harris, Lieutenant B.J. White aboard the USS Franklin.
Wounded soldiers from European Theater of Operation arrive by Air Evac C-54 aircraft to LaGuardia Airport, New York, where they are greeted by families and friends during World War II. Film opens with view through main cargo door into cabin of a military C-54 transport parked on the ramp at LaGuardia Airport, New York. The cabin is configured for air evacuation. Inside, wounded American soldiers are seen in a rack of litters stacked four high. A man in civilian clothes holds a clip board and speaks to soldiers on the airport ramp. A man drives a fork lift to the cargo door and lowers two of the wounded on litters to the ground, where waiting family members reach down to kiss and embrace them. Photographers take pictures and Army officers welcome the wounded. Media technicians set up microphones near on soldier who is with a woman. They record as the woman and soldier embrace and speak to each other. After momentary break, scene shifts back to cargo door of the C-54, where several Army soldiers watch the activities below where women greeting two more wounded are being photographed and recorded as they are reunited. The next scene is in a hangar, where a wounded soldier is sitting up in his litter with wife or sweetheart beside him and a man and woman behind him. Two microphones are set up next to them. The young couple kiss and embrace. Closeup of them.
A baby crawling race over a 50-foot course at Palisades Park in New Jersey. Mothers arrive with their babies for the baby crawling race. The babies are weighed. They have candidature numbers. The participating babies on the ground. The babies crawl over the 50-foot course. The parents of the babies cheer for them. The winner's mother holds him.
Activities the day before the Trinity nuclear test conducted at White Sands Missile Range (USAAF Almogordo bombing and gunnery range) in the Jornado del Muerto desert of New Mexico, during World War II. This is for the the first atomic bomb test; and first ever detonation of a nuclear weapon in history. View of the White Sands Missile Range,the testing site for Trinity nuclear test. Mountains seen in the background. Men aboard a truck loaded with the plutonium core nuclear device nicknamed "Gadget". Men attach the gadget to hook of a crane. Crane hoists the gadget from truck and place it on ground. Men assemble the gadget.
Activities prior to the Trinity nuclear test conducted in the Jornado del Muerto desert of New Mexico during World War II. Crane lifts a tent canvas. Man lifts a ladder and places it to climb on the steel tower. The plutonium core nuclear device nicknamed the "Gadget" seen on the ground. It is the first atomic bomb test device. This is the day before the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in history. Men prepare for final arming of the device. Man climbs up a ladder to tower. Other men stand on a tower. Drape to cover the bomb is prepared.
Opening scene shows hands of a man, in overalls, as he sands a small wooden figure of a horse. Next, handicraft materials, including yarn and roughly cutout blocks of wood, are seen laid out on a table. The hands of a woman are seen as she marks with pencil where some further finishing is needed on a rough cutout wooden figure of a horse. Slate quotes a Brasstown worker about satisfaction from making something with your own hands.