Highlights the role of United States Coast Guard in Operation Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia. Various support units do their work to help the men fight the war against Iraq. Highlights the importance of team work. BM3 Roger Kramer talks about the team spirit among the Coast Guards. Men repair weapons at armament issue and repair unit. Men and women of support staff do office work, a doctor examines a patient, peel vegetables. Lieutenant Ken Feilen explains the importance of support staff in the success of a mission.
A snow milling machine cuts trenches to construct Camp Century in Greenland. Men of United States Army engineers put planks on shoulder of a trench. A sled dog helps out men. Trench cut by snow milling machine. Men place overlapping steel arches on the trenches to cover them. Men cut snow bricks. Engineers cut passage inside the tunnel with a shovel and men level the floor. Wood planks being placed a few feet above the ground. A vehicle carries pre fabricated sections to the tunnel and men place these sections to construct a camp unit. A man draws up electrical wires. Officer marks the completed unit on a map. Men build a snow brick wall at the entrance of the tunnel. Snow pushed into the doorway by a machine. A man and a dog get down the stairs at the entrance of the trench.
New aircraft fleet of United States Army Air Corps. Aircraft armada lined up at Bolling field in Washington DC, United States. President Franklin D Roosevelt reviews the aircraft as he drives past the new planes. United States airmen salute.
United States Marines being transferred to United States LSV-2 in the Pacific Ocean for landings on Japan during World War II. The marines with landing party gear on the flight deck of United States ship Cowpen underway in the Pacific Ocean. A marine puts apples in a knapsack. The marines load .45 pistol clips. A marine with a monkey mascot on his arm as others look on. A monkey on a mortar. The marines at quarters for muster on the flight deck. They put on their battle equipment.
United States Marines being transferred to United States LSV-2 in the Pacific Ocean for landings on Japan during World War II. The marines being transferred from United States ship Cowpen to LSV-2 which is along side the ship. They are transferred from Cowpen to LSV-2 by breeches buoy.
Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance the island. The Marine units move away from Naha and Shuri. Troops on tanks and trucks. Rockets and artillery strike and bombard 'Sugar Loaf Hill'. Heavy smoke and fire due to explosions. Soldiers fire. Self propelled 155mm artillery system brought up. (World War II period).
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