A dramatized film about the training of U.S. Navy recruits at various naval training centers in the United States. The training and life of United States Navy recruits at U.S. Navy training center in Bainbridge, Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois and Naval Base San Diego in California. Sailors get a practical experience of life aboard a ship. The sailors learn to fight fire and life saving tactics. The sailors play baseball, read books in a library and dance with WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service). The sailors meet the visitors at weekends at a naval academy. A chapel at the academy. A sign reads 'St. Paul's Chapel'. The sailors sing hymns inside the chapel. A sailor plays piano as others sing hymns. A cross and a Bible at the altar. A sailor walks up to the altar.
A film about the training of U.S. Navy recruits at various naval training centers in the United States. The training and life of United States Navy recruits at U.S. Navy training center in Bainbridge, Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois and Naval Base San Diego in California. Sailors undergo classification interview after the completion of training. A sign reads 'Classification Interviewing'. The sailors being screened by qualified Classified personnel. Various aptitude and classification tests conducted on the sailors. The Navy personnel discover abilities and desires of the sailors and assign them to different roles and functions in the Navy. The sailors lined up at a graduation ceremony. The Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59) at sea. A Navy FJ2 aircraft parked at a naval base. The sailors march past a building. The sailors undergo a training in different fields like electronics, medicine, dentistry and communication. The sailors work on pipes aboard a ship. The sailors work as butchers in the Navy. The sailors undertake research and work on radars and various other equipment.
A dramatized film about the training of U.S. Navy recruits at various naval training centers in the United States. The training and life of United States Navy recruits at U.S. Navy training center in Bainbridge, Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois and Naval Base San Diego in California. The sailors salute and shake hands with an officer at the graduation ceremony. People seated on the stands. Thomas Dickson being presented the American spirit medal. A Chaplain reads out a benediction from a rostrum. The sailors stand with their heads lowered. The Chaplain prays for a bright future of the graduating sailors. The sailors march past the review stand.
Nuclear detonation on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Operation Red Wing. A resultant mushroom cloud. Scenes of landing of several United States Air Force aircraft like B-52, B-47,B-66, B-57 on a United States AFB situated on the Eniwetok atoll (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok) in Marshall Islands. Shows the aircraft carrier USS Badoeng Strait in Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Several US-airplanes like F-84F, F-101, B-52 and B-36 can be seen on the AFB. Maintenance crew can be seen working on a B-52's (Stratofortress) engines. Men working on the nose and wing section of a F-101 Voodoo. Technician working on the F-101's electronics equipment, opens its nose dome to reveal photo panel radiation gauges. Airman removes motion picture camera from the nose of F101. Technicians work at the instrumental panel of a B-57. Radiometer attached at tail section of B-66. Technician removes dust for radiation sample. Technicians work on the horizontal stabilizer of B-47 tail section.
Shows one of the many raydist site (HF & MF relay station) situated on the Bikini and Eniwetok atolls in Marshall Islands,Pacific Ocean . Aircraft carrier, USS Badoeng Strait in the Pacific Ocean. Several receiving antennas near radar trailers on the aircraft carrier. Radar dish on top of trailers on the Bikini atoll. Man checks radar antenna on top of trailer. Aerial shots of shoreline radar installations, an AFB and living quarters located on lagoon. Several United States Aircrafts that participated in Project Red Wing can be seen on the AFB.
B-52, B-47 and B-66 RATO take off from a runway at the Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall Island. Pilot being assisted into an F-84F cockpit and seated in cockpit wearing a helmet. F-84F on ramp with pitot tube in nose section. F-84F taxiing out of parking area while a F-101 taxiing. F-101 takes off on a wet runway. Views of B-52, B-66, B-47, F-84F in flight. Scene of atomic bomb explosion burst over water at Eniwetok Atoll during nuclear testing by the United States. A F-101 in flight. A B-57 flies over on wing at high altitude.