Designed and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky Fuller) walks through woods and gets aboard a boat. Architectural design of his Geodesic dome. Children get out of his futuristic Dymaxion car invention. Architects reject the Dymaxion houses. Bucky Fuller gives lecture to students in Alaska about his designs and theories. Students take pictures.
Ten Martin B-10 bombers taxi and take off from Bolling Field, Washington, DC, for mapping flight to Alaska, and back. View of Army Air Corps Lieutenant Colonel Henry H. Arnold, who commands the operation. The ten Martin B-10 bombers in formation, flying overhead. Scene changes to their return, as B-10 bombers are seen flying over the Potomac River at Washington, DC. Colonel Arnold, standing with some of his pilots, accepts the MacKay Trophy from Secretary of War George Dern for their accomplishment.
Alaska survey expedition. Planes lined up before departure at the air base. Group of officers detailed to the expedition. The officers stand near it. 'US Navy Alaskan Survey Expedition' written on the plane. Group of officers pose for the photographs in front of the plane.
A sign reads 'Border Operations'. Other signs on area roads read: "Ronshausen; Kreis Rotenburg; Zonen- Grenzbezirk." U.S. Army soldiers seen guarding key installations and supply lines in Germany. American troops keeping ready with training, crawling under live machine gun fire. U.S.Army Arctic Training Center in Big Delta, Alaska. Army troops training in snow on skis. U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard units being trained to increase their readiness. Army troops in routine activities, eating, etc. stop everything, and respond to battle stations when an alarm sounds.
American General William D Mitchell (aka Billy Mitchell) at a desk in his office in Middleburg, Virginia. General Mitchell points out the loopholes in air support at Long Island for New York. He urges that America must build up its strength in building more bomber aircraft. General Mitchell says that air power is the prime strength of any nation for directly attacking the enemy's key installations. The General demands the construction of an air base in Alaska.
Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. A U.S. Navy Loening amphibian aircraft in flight over a water body during tests performed prior to a U.S. Navy three year expedition to Alaska. The aircraft lowers its landing gear. By folding the wheels the ship is converted into a hydroplane. The Loening aircraft in flight. It raises its landing gear. It lands on water, taxis and rolls out of the water onto a beach.
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