U.S. Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis visiting sites of interest in Hawaii. Rustic military Headquarters building displays sign, "Kilauea Military Camp." A car drives up and passengers step out to be greeted happily by women and children who have been waiting on the building porch. (Slate explains that this is a military rest camp a half mile from the Kilauea crater.) Camera pans across cabins occupied by military families. Some soldiers are seen having fun on the grounds. Camp visitors are seen looking across a crater at smoke rising from the active Mauna Loa volcano. View from behind of Secretary Davis conversing with the Superintendent, Richard T. Evans, of Kilauea National Park, as they both watch the steaming crater. A huge chunk of lava rock bearing a sign that reads: "8 tons, hurled over one mile high during eruption May, 1924." A slug of lava clinging to skeleton of a tree. Sign at base of tree reads: "Don't touch spatter on trees, Very Fragile."
Railing and sign at Kilauea National Park, Hawaii, reads: "Kilauea Iki, 770 feet deep, Active in 1868." Camera pans down into the crater and across the rim. Scene shifts to U.S. Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis, and Hawaii Territorial Governor, Wallace R. Farrington, standing with two military officers, at the edge of the crater.
187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team follows up practice parachute drop with ground activities during Korean War.. United States soldiers cross a small stream on their way to assembly point after airdrop. Soldiers wait in Aid Station for medical treatment. Medic bandages soldier's hand. Injured soldiers lie on litter outside the Aid tent. Soldiers march on road through a Korean village.
Paratroopers of the U.S. Army 187th Regimental Combat Team proceed through a Korean village as part of their post airdrop activities during training exercise in the Korean War. They turn to look back at the camera as they pass local villagers. Next, they are seen cossing a bridge over a river. Camera records them from position between columns of troops. Many look back as they pass the camera. In another scene, the troops march past a Korean man hauling crops in a wagon pulled by two oxen. Setting sun highlights the troops moving along a dirt road in hilly terrain.
Troops of the U.S. Army 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team proceed into a fenced bivouac area as part of their post airdrop activities during training exercise in the Korean War. Two local Korean men walk past them. Supply sergeants stand by boxes of rations, and soldiers are seen eating as they relax in the bivouac field. Troops line up at an American Red Cross Canteen Trailer, where a woman Red Cross worker is handing out refreshments. She turns and shows the Red Cross patch on her uniform sleeve. A smiling lieutenant walks away from the canteen trailer with a donut in his hand. Other soldiers gather around the trailer, including an African American soldier.
Paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team are dropped by C-119 and C-46 aircraft of the 403rd Troop Carrier Wing onto a field near K-2 (Taegu), during the Korean War. The sky is filled with descending parachutes. Views from the ground as troopers land, gather their gear, and walk away. A second wave of troopers dropping from C-46 aircraft. Closeup of one trooper removing his flotation vest and helmet as he organizes his personal gear after landing.
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