The United States Army imparts training to recruits for President Roosevelt's Reforestation Program at Camp Roosevelt in Washington DC. A vessel (“Potomac”) arrives in Fort Washington, Maryland. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) recruits exit the vessel and walk down a road. The young men are trained by the United States Army for the reforestation program in the Great Depression.
U.S. soldiers slogging through muddy fields, along dirt roads and through jungles. A soldier with vegetation on his helmet (comouflage) speaks into a radiophone. A few U.S. soldiers talk among themselves in camp. A tank firing artillery. A helicopter firing rockets. An air ambulance helicopter. Soldiers boarding a Pan American jetliner for transport to Hawaii, for Rest and Recuperation. Signs reading:" Aloha R&R Hawaii' and 'Aloha R&R Personnel' displayed at Fort Derussy, in Hawaii. A group of men and women in a long canoe, enjoying themselves during "R and R." An Army Chaplain conducts religious service for soldiers in the field. Sign on a building reads: Army Community Service Center." An officer speaks with a woman military dependent at the center. A sign lists myriad types of assistance available. Two soldiers talk. A soldier gets a hair cut. Little school children at a school in Vietnam. Vietnamese people following an American soldier across a bridge. American soldiers under fire and firing weapons from the air, from tanks, and from small arms. A soldier loads a grenade launcher. An Army doctor treats an injured Vietnamese girl. American flag flying in the breeze.
American soldiers of th 90th Infantry Divisionat, at the fortress of Guentrange (Fort Obergentringen) in Thionville, France, during World War 2. The town of Thionville. A cluster of buildings in the town. Smoke rising from certain areas in the town. High walls of the main barracks of the fortress south of the Maginot Line in Thionville, built by the Germans when they occupied Lorraine after 1871. An iron palisade in front of the main barracks of the fortress. Trees near the iron fence. People walk along a pathway beside the fence. American soldiers at the fortress. A couple of soldiers using a field telephone. The soldiers sit outside the entrance of the fortress and clean rifles. Krupp 105 mm guns at the fortress.
A U.S. Army sponsored model rocketry shoot at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, United States. High school boys gathered at the Camp A P Hill with rockets they designed and built by themselves. They prepare for the shoot of missiles. Army men aid the boys in rocket launching. A boy talks over a phone during a launch countdown. The boys watch as the model rockets are being shot.
A French Foreign Legionnaire cleaning equipment at a table in Regimental compound at Taza, South of the Rif mountains, in Morocco. Sign painted on wall reads: "2/3 R.E.I." and "5th Compagnie". In center of sign is a French Foreign Legion Logo, on which "5/5" appears. A contingent of armed Legionnaires ascends a hill and arrives at a fort at the top. They speak with Berber tribesmen and present them copies of an official document. Then they search the fortifcations. In one room there are several Berber women, sitting on the floor.(The women have notable tattoos on their faces.) A dog is seen accompanying the Legionnaires. Large numbers of Berber women and children come out of their quarters and assemble, sitting down on the ground in front of the men. A Legion officer speaks to a village leader and the villagers. The Legionnaires then depart and return down the mountain. A French officer is seen standing up in a jeep, as it drives along a sandy road. Exterior view of a building with sign over doorway with sign " Gendarmerie Nationale" inscribed above it.
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India dies in New Delhi, India. Flashback scene from 1947 as thousands of people assemble and listen to Nehru speak from the Red Fort as India achieves Independence. View of Nehru talking with U.S. President John F Kennedy while walking in a garden in the early 1960s. Indian national flag lowered to mourn for his death. A large crowd gathered to witness his funeral according to Hindu rituals. A woman joins hands towards the dead body of Nehru and weeps.