During World War I, U.S. Navy sailors in training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in the United States. The sailors are seen near Curtiss F-Boat aircraft hangars near the water. Airplanes half out of the hangar doors. The sailors pull a seaplane out of a hangar. They move it down a wooden ramp towards Lake Michigan.
U.S. Navy sailors in training near a seaplane during World War I. They look in the cockpit of the seaplane which is a Curtiss F-Boat. Two men in aviator garb. A sailor helps an aviator into a life preserver. The sailors work on the seaplane and turn a crank to start the engine. Some of the sailors lay wooden planks on water. They ease the flying boat with aviators aboard and propellers turning down the planks into water of Lake Michigan. Some buildings of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station visible in the background. The flying boat takes off and in flight. Change of scene and aerial view of a Kearsarge class battleship. Tugs off the starboard side. Scene change again to the Curtiss flying boat. The seaplane comes in for a landing.
First Nike-Hercules missile service in Taiwan. Exteriors of Nike missile assembly building in Northern Taiwan. CWO (Chief Warrant Officer) James F. Wheeler of 61st Artillery, 2nd Missile Battalion, D Battery, checks the Nike missile for proper assembly. Nike assembly officer 1st Lieutenant Lee Kuei Cheng of 1st Missile Battalion, B Battery, and Sergeant Gordon A. Cotner, Division B of MAAG advisory team, are seen. Two Chinese mechanics remove rear plate of Nike. Nike missile shipping container. Sergeant Cotner and CWO Wheeler discusses reassembled portion of missile. Chinese officer takes inventory as parts are being uncrated and hands them to Chinese mechanics. Sergeant Cotner watches as Chinese officer inspects Nike container.
The first Nike-Hercules missile service in Taiwan. U.S. Army Sergeant Gordon A. Cotner talks to members of Chinese assembly team during break period. Chinese mechanics eat as they talk to the Sergeant. Various U.S. Army officers and Chinese mechanics. Nike-Hercules missile being readied for flight test by Chinese assembly team. U.S. advisors watch and evaluate the work. Chief Warrant Officer Michael F. Feehley and John K. Langford Jr. discuss the results. Sergeant Fu looks on. CWO Langford checks out testing progress with Republic of China Army 1st Lieutenant Wang Mu-Shan and Sergeant First Class Chih Meng-Ping. Chief of Guided Missile Advisory team Lieutenant Colonel William H. Deadwyler discusses problems with 1st Lieutenant Wang.
United States Marines Corps on their way to invade the Japanese held Solomon Islands during World War II. A mail ship arrives and the Marines on the deck of the ship. U.S. Navy F4U Corsair aircraft in flight. Patrol boats underway. Marines on the bridge aboard a ship. The Marines climb down a landing net and come aboard a landing craft alongside the ship. Naval guns bombard Solomon coast. Landing crafts pull away. An aircraft in flight. Smoke rises from the coast due to bombarding. The landing crafts head towards a beach. Crafts arrive at the coast. Men put sand bags around a gun emplacement on the beach. A sign in Japanese. The United States flag being raised on the island.
An Allied campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Mechanics work on a U.S. Marine Corps SBD Dauntless aircraft. A man loads a gun aboard the aircraft. Bombs lying in a field. A man fuels the aircraft. A pilot gets in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft takes off from a field. Men load a bomb under the wing of an SBD Dauntless aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. A U.S. Navy F4U Corsair aircraft lands and taxis on a field.
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