A suspicious automobile being checked by Customs and Border Protection Officers at the border with Mexico in San Diego, California. Officers check the trunk of the car looking for contraband, illegal border crossings, or illegal drugs. A man is brought out from the trunk. An officer holds him with his hands at the back. An officer opens some luggage. A Customs and Border Protection officer at the US-Mexican border crossing. The officer stops a vehicle and talks to the people inside. Several vehicles behind. The police man stops another car and talks to the driver leaning against the car. Two men near the door of a vehicle. Officers examining the bed of a pickup vehicle. Officer displays a plastic bag, apparently filled with packages of illegal drugs. Some packages fall out as he takes them inside the building.
Cars moving rapidly from Mexico into the United States, after being screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers. Vehicles being checked at the by officers. Backup of cars waiting clearance at the U.S. entry point. Officer stops a vehicle and talks to the driver of the vehicle. Many Customs Officers stop vehicles and check them at the border.
National Guard soldiers, called up for the Punitive Expedition into Mexico, are seen at camp in Fort Bliss. They attend to ordinary tasks, such as hanging clothes to dry on their tent ropes. A group are gathered together for mail call and receive letters and packages from home. Next, many are seen seated on the ground, writing letters, themselves. Troops gather around an outdoor mess stove where food is being prepared. Next they are seen carrying their personal mess gear as they walk past tents. They then line up for food in a chow line at an outdoor kitchen. Troops seated on the ground, eating a meal from their personal mess kits. Some of the soldiers gather where they are filmed playing with two puppies and a small goat. Much of the remaining footage shows soldiers engaged in all manner of competitive physical games such as horse and rider, and various team races. The final shots show Brigadier General John J. Pershing posing with members of his staff, and closeups of him seated in a chair and then standing outside his rustic quarters.
The destroyer USS Braine, DD-630, transfers wounded men, via Stokes stretcher, to the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40, for medical treatment, during the Marianas campaign of World War 2. (The USS Braine had earlier been hit by a Japanese six-inch shore battery off the shores of Tinian, causing minor damage.)
Colonel Lindbergh takes off from Washington DC, United states to Mexico City on December 13, 1927. Men push Spirit of St Louis, a monoplane, pushed out of a hangar by a group of men at Bolling airfield in Washington DC, United States. A man makes final check up of the aircraft. Major Harvey Burwell, Commanding Office of the Bolling Air Field greets Charles Lindbergh before he takes off. Lindbergh gets into the plane and men push the plane. Aircraft takes off.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh prepares to leave for Mexico as a goodwill ambassador. Men push his plane out onto the field. People look at his plane the 'Spirit of Saint Louis'. Lindbergh directs the men. He talks to an officer watches the men work on his plane. Lindbergh inspects the cockpit. Two officers stand nearby.