U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower arrive in Augusta, Georgia for a short vacation. Eisenhower and First Lady climb down a ladder. They are greeted by old friends A man in the background takes pictures. People look at them. Clifford Roberts Chairman of the Augusta Country Club greets Eisenhower. Eisenhower and Mamie meet their old friends.
The U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forbce, Brigadier General Benjamin D. Foulois and other officers look over De Havilland DH-4 biplane bombers parked at the air base. Their tails are painted in the French scheme, with blue-white-red vertical stripes. Brigadier General Foulois gets into the cockpit of one of the aircraft. He poses for the camera, beside an airplane, smoking his pipe. He and his staff stroll across the grassy field past parked airplanes.
Evacuation of casualties of the 173rd Airborne Brigade to a field hospital in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Men standing outside medical tents. Wounded on litter carried into a medical tent. Other injured patient is taken into the tent. The casualties are carried to a U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter which will take them to a station hospital. Men carry a litter patient with a medic holding a jar of glucose.
Evacuation of casualties of the 173rd Airborne Brigade to a field hospital in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A medical tent. Soldiers walk nearby. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter lands. Men run towards the helicopter. They carry litters. The wounded are carried on the litters.
Evacuation of casualties of the 173rd Airborne Brigade to a field hospital in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter lands. Men carry wounded soldiers to a medical tent. A patient on a litter in taken to the helicopter.
An original 1912 U.S. Navy Curtiss pusher bamboo seaplane is parked on the shore of the Anacostia River, at the United States Naval Base in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. Its flight controls are seen moving as sailors (unseen) check their movements. Next, with the engine running, Captain "Dick" Richardson, climbs aboard and makes his own quick flight control check. Closeup of him at the controls giving a nod that he is ready to be pushed into the water for a demonstration flight. Sailors maneuver the craft to the edge of shore and push it into the river. Roosevelt Hall, at U.S. Army Fort Lesley J. McNair, is seen across the river in the background. The seaplane's lower left wing dips into the water momentarily, as Captain Richardson taxis it away from the shore. Scene shifts to the seaplane taking off from the river, after which, Captain Richardson Quickly brings it back down to a water landing, near the Washington Channel.
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