Social life of wealthy in Germany, Hungary, and Austria before World War 1. Kaiser Whilhelm II of Germany and his wife, Empress Augusta, in Berlin. The Empress The enters their open back limousine, followed by the Kaiser, who is dressed in military uniform with Prussian style helmet. They drive off while German Officer salutes. Complete change of scene shows well-dressed crowd of spectators gathered in Budapest, Hungary, to watch a horse race. Some spectators use binoculars. View of horses in final stretch and crossing finish line. Next scene shows "Flower Day" in Vienna Austria. Wealthy citizens crowd shopping area and contribute to help the poor. Finely dressed pedestrians walking in shopping and commerical areas. They receive flowers as token of contribution. Some men wear flowers in their lapels. Little girls with baskets of flowers participate in the activities, standing in front of the Cafe Scheidl and "Zum Fenstergucker" house near corner of Kaerntner Strasse and Walfischgasse next to the Opera House. A street car decorated with garlands of flowers is a center of the activity. Women on the top deck of the street car reach down with small nets on long poles to retrieve contributions from passersby.
An Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling (Butterfly) TV-guided German surface-to-air missile, on the launch pad in Peenemunde, Germany, in World War 2. Its two booster rocket engines ignite propelling the missile skyward. After a short while, the boosters burn out and a main rocket fires. Pieces of a booster can be seen falling to the left of the missile as it continues its ascent under main rocket engine power.
An HS-117 missile on the launch pad at Peenemunde, Germany, during World War 2. It is test fired. The needle of the timer rotates continuously. The missile moves in sky taking an approximately parabolic pathway. A trail of smoke appears at the tail end of the missile.
The USS Mansfield (DD-728) fires a salvo, from 5-inch guns, to port at nighttime, during Operation Sea Dragon, in the Vietnam War. The firing generates a fireball and brown smoke that slowly drifts away to port. Next, are several scenes from the bridge of the Mansfield, looking down on her twin 5-inch gun turrets turned forward. These are taken as dawn gradually increases the ambient light. A sailor is seen at the Mk 37 Director position above the bridge of the Mansfield. The film ends with numerous views of a U.S. Army Cessna O-1E/L-19 observation plane making passes, at low altitude, near and above the Mansfield.
Opening scenes, photographed from the USS Mansfield (DD-728), shows a U.S. Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer bombarding the Vietnamese coast, during Operation Sea Dragon in the Vietnam War. Next, a sailor is seen looking through binoculars at the Mk 37 Director position above the bridge of the Mansfield. Closeup of the gun director. Next the Mansfield fires a salvo to port from one of her forward twin 8-inch guns. Smoke is seen above the shoreline. More views of the gun director punctuated by more salvos from the 8-inch guns. Closeup of gun barrels as they fire. Sailors on deck watching as smoke from firing drifts away. View forward from amidship, showing sailors looking over railing. A Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun (M2) dominates foreground, where it is affixed to the ship railing. More salvos are fired from the Mansfield's forward guns. Shells strike the shore area.
Various World War I planes (mostly German). Fokker D-7s and Fokker DR1. German seaplane. British tri-wing bomber with "RAEWAR Mark II" on its nose section. German Zeppelin Staaken R.VI bomber, with Fokker fighter plane parked under its wing. A German bi-wing bomber in flight.
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