This film shows numerous types and models of World War One aircraft in operation. It opens showing Allied airplanes preparing for a maximum air campaign in the battle of Saint Mihiel. View from inside a hanger as its flap opens and men push a Sopwith Camel airplane out onto airfield. Map of St Mihiel. American planes warm up on flight line in predawn, with flares burning at wingtips. Huge numbers of allied airplanes are marshaled on airfields throughout the theater of operations and begin taking off. Among them is a French Morane-Saulnier low wing monoplane. German fliers are seen loading small hand held bombs into the cockpit of their Albatross aircraft. Soldiers in combat on ground in "no man's land" during the battle of St. Mihiel. They take refuge in large shell and bomb craters and try to advance running between them.. Germans fliers dropping bombs, by hand, from airplane. Numerous Allied and German airplanes in aerial dogfights. American planes over clouds. American Observation balloon attacked in sky. Balloon in flames, and trailing black smoke as it falls to the ground. French flag flies at an airfield, where a nosed-over airplane sits, by a hangar, as airplanes fly overhead. Aircraft taxiing about in close quarters at airfield. Large formations of American airplanes flying overhead in a grand formation, following the Armistice, November 11, 1918 Then the film shifts dramatically from World War One to the post-WWII year of 1947. It illustrates the dramatic advances in warplanes since WWI by showing U.S. B-36 bombers and straight-wing F-84 Thunderjet fighters is formation.
German soldiers wearing gas masks load a gas shell into artillery in the 1918 Spring Offensive (also known as the Kaiserschlacht or “Kaiser’s Battle”) during World War I. Soldiers fire gas shell from artillery. German soldiers assume “brace position” in trenches. From an observation position, German Emperor Wilhelm II speaks to German generals belonging to the Supreme Army Command or the Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL). German troops advance "over the top" from the trenches, running past obstacles. British soldiers firing with artillery. Soldiers running as noxious gas disperses in the battlefield, with German soldiers in trenches. A French soldier uses a telephone under a tree during a battle. United States soldiers marching with rifles. French troops wearing gas masks fire with artillery, stacks of shells amassed alongside them. Allied troops, including French soldiers and American soldiers, marching in farmland. Bodies of German soldiers killed lying in meadow.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II arrives by train to witness the 1918 Spring Offensive (also known as the Kaiserschlacht or “Kaiser’s Battle”) during World War I. A moving steam locomotive train. Kaiser Wilhelm II salutes to a senior German military official after disembarking from the train. Kaiser Wilhelm II speaking with a senior German military official. A smiling military assistant salutes Kaiser Wilhelm before joining him on the train station platform. Military officers put coats on Kaiser Wilhelm II and the senior military official before assisting them into the car.
Wrestling match between Sugar Ray Robinson and Charley Fusari in Jersey, France. James Farley and Walter Winchell seated on chair to watch the match. Sugar Ray Robinson and Charley Fusari fight on boxing floor. Cameramen record the match. Gene Tunney watches the wrestling match. Robinson successfully defended his welterweight title for the last time against Charley Fusari. Robinson won a lopsided 15 round decision. Robinson won the wrestling bout that was staged for the Runyon cancer fund.
Jersey Ringel performs air stunts in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jersey Ringel stands on an aircraft and moves onto another aircraft. He grasps the aerial ladder of a passing aircraft. Jersey Ringel hangs by feet from an aircraft.
Heinkel HE-57 amphibian monoplane in flight. Point of view shot from camera behind pilot as plane performs aerial spinning dive. Changing view of ground from cockpit of aircraft. Pilots with parachutes land on field. A model aircraft in flight. At timecode 1:00: Paul von Hindenburg and other German dignitaries present at the December 1925 re-interment of Manfred von Richthofen in Invalid's Cemetery (Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery) in Berlin, Germany. (He was originally buried in France following his 1918 death). At 1:04: Scene from before his death: Manfred Von Richthofen (The Red Baron) smiling and conversing with other German pilots. Clip ends with brief view of Fokker Dr.I Triplane like that flown by Manfred von Richthofen.
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