762mm rocket MGR-1B (M50) is also known by name 'Honest John'. A truck moves on road. 2 rockets and a launcher are present in the assembly area. Rocket is positioned. War head is fixed to the motor with 4 bolts. The rocket loaded on a truck moves. It arrives at a place in field. Soldiers of handling unit,M405, place rocket on launcher. The rocket is secured by steel shoes. The launch beams are folded. The rocket is covered with blanket. The launcher, 17 ton M386, moves on road with rocket fixed on it. It arrives in a field. A soldier moves the handle of the jack. Soldiers remove blanket cover of the rocket. The crew also extends the launcher beam. Rocket fins are attached. A soldier views through telescope. Soldiers set the wind measuring set. It moves. Soldiers elevate the launcher. A soldier again looks in the telescope. Soldiers get down from launcher. Two soldiers sit near a remote control device. A soldier speaks on phone. Another soldier pushes a button in the remote. The M50 is fired. An explosion at a far off site (38 Km) occurs with an eruption of smoke and dust.
Launcher and crew in truck arrive in field. Soldiers get down from truck and operate an 8.5 ton launch station. The 3 hydraulic jacks are maneuvered to ground. A soldier sits on beam of launcher. The launcher is raised hydraulically. Missile assembly arrives in a truck. The sergeant guidance system and motor are locked and hunched under the launcher beam by 4 bolts. The nuclear war head, electronic arming and firing section are set. A soldier sits in the firing set enclosure. He checks the missile by pushing knobs. The soldier locks structures on launcher and gets down. A soldier looks in telescope. He gets down. Two soldiers sit near a remote at a distance from the missile. The missile elevates and turns. Missile is fired. Missile leaves the launcher.
United States soldiers march. Men work in a weapon factory. A tractor moves in a field. A fenced hut. Henry Brown, a farmer washes his face and wipes with a towel. He milks a cow and collects milk in a bucket. The cow feeds a calf. Henry sits with family at the breakfast table. His wife serves them breakfast. Henry prepares his horses and moves to field. He ploughs the field. Vegetables are growing in the field. His wife works in the house. Hens in the poultry. His wife and daughter move to field. Henry is ploughing field. Henry's farming equipment in his house. Ploughed field is seen. (World War II period).
Henry Brown and his wife and two children board a horse cart. The horse cart moves, passing fields, trees and stores in Tuskegee, Macon County, including WJ Brantleys grocery market and the Macon Theatre on Northside Street. They reach an Army Air Force Base (Moton Field). Henry's eldest son, a cadet of 99th Pursuit Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen African American fliers in World War 2) receives them. They all move to the aerodrome where planes are parked. Henry's eldest son gets ready for a flight. He enters the cockpit. The plane takes off. The two children wave their hands. Henry and his wife look to the sky.
A soldier atop an M-113Armoured Personnel Carrier looks through binoculars during Operation Cedar Falls. Another soldier prepares Trinitrotoluene (TNT) charges to destroy bunker. Two soldiers move away as a bunker explodes. Two soldiers near a mine. One of them inserts TNT charges in it. It explodes. A destroyed house. (Vietnam War period).
An M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier bogged down in a large ditch. U.S. Army Soldiers hook cables to the fallen M-113. 'US Army' is stenciled on the M-113. Another M-113 moves on ground above the ditch, pulls out the fallen M-113. (Vietnam War period).
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