U.S. Army 1st Infantry division soldiers get off CH-47 Chinook helicopter during Operation Cedar Falls in villages of Ben Suc, South Vietnam. Jeep unloaded from another CH-47 helicopter. Villagers leave their homes and walk along road. Soldiers cautiously cross field. A combat photographer walks along with them. Soldiers fire M-60 machine guns and M-14 rifles into brush. (Vietnam War period).
Film begins with views from a camera in an overhead conveyor at the Ford Rouge River steel mill in Dearborn, Michigan. It focuses on a hot ingot of steel moving through a succession of nine consecutive rollers. Each roller reduces the size of the ingot, until it becomes a long rod of hot steel, many yards long. It is then transferred horizontally, across an array of rails. Change of scene shows another ingot, in a different part of the plant, moving through a set of rollers along the side of factory shop. Next, a hot ingot is seen discharged from a chute. Camera follows as it passes through a series of water-cooled rollers. Long rods of hot steel are then seen being channeled to a converging point on a conveyor, where they flip sideways and reverse course. A new view shows men using poles to guide ribbons of hot steel in and out of rollers. Change of scene shows long ribbons of hot steel being automatically moved along conveyors into large saws that cut them into desired lengths. The ribbons of steel are then moved sideways to an extremely long and wide sort of table, where they are transferred, by devices that keep them aligned and prevent them from breaking or damage during movement.
A floating barge with crane helps repair another barge. A crane from the barge lifts a Landing Craft Mechanized from the barge to be repaired. Tugboats near the barge moves away. De Long piers and ships are in the background.
U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawk being put on to the catapult of USS Independence (CVA-62). Rear view of the A-4C type aircraft revving up for launch. A part of E-2A Hawkeye aircraft is seen parked in the foreground. A-4C being launched from catapult. U.S. Navy Admiral John Sidney McCain Jr. (father of John S. McCain III) watches the launches. Lt. Commander on the bridge looks through binoculars. McCain in the foreground. Admiral smokes a long cigar and watches the launches. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William I. Martin (Commander of the Sixth Fleet) and Admiral McCain on the bridge. Admiral puts his long cigar in his mouth on the bridge. Ships officers in the background. Admiral chats with Vice Admiral on the bridge and again places his cigar in his mouth. Martin smiles and talks with cigar in his mouth. U.S. Navy F-4J Phantom II type aircraft on catapult, ready for launch. Plane being launched.
Air show in the Mediterranean Sea. Starboard beam view of the USS Shangri La (CV-8) as seen from USS Independence (CVA-62). Officers and newsmen on the deck in the foreground. Dignitaries aboard the ship. High ranked VIPs seated in chairs to watch the air show. Two newsmen one with a camera, one with ear phones and High ranked officers seated in the middle. Officers seated in chairs on the flight deck which includes U.S. Navy Admiral John Sidney McCain Jr. (father of John S. McCain III). The mast of the ship and a flag of the United States on it. Us Navy E-1B Tracer on fly by in the background. The flight deck filled with VIPs and flight deck personnel as they look upwards. High ranked officers and U.S. Navy Captain Douglas Fairbanks Jr. looks up. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William I. Martin, Commander of the Sixth Fleet, is seen. Splashes in the water from the boom hits. Smoke makers in flight. High ranked officers look skyward. Large plash in the water, throws up smoke from a hit during the demonstration. Two unidentified aircraft in formation on fly-by. The water shows multiple explosions. A long string of explosions on the water. Strafing and explosions on the surface of the water. CBUs go off in a long column on the water, throws and strikes the water. Small explosion occurs, followed by second one. Aircraft move to a position for over the shoulder bombing. High ranked officers with their heads turning to right, as they follow an aircraft. Captain Fairbanks in the foreground. Captain Fairbanks, Vice Admiral Martin, Admiral McCain, and several Foreign Officers seated in the front row. Two F-4J Phantom II aircraft on fly-by. Three flares burn in the sky. Two aircraft come into the scene from the right and fly towards the flares. Aircraft continues to move towards the flares. Aircraft fire missiles striking the flares in sky. Several personnel on the flight deck. Aircraft in the sky. Three flares burn in sky, two aircraft fly-by the flares as a streak of smoke pass through the three flares. Civilians and newsmen on the flight deck. Newsmen work with their cameras.
Monitor Flame Boats underway in the South China Sea. Flooded well deck of USS Catamount (LSD-17). Monitor Flame Boats enter the well deck. Bow view of the Monitors entering USS Catamount's well deck. Two Monitors in the well deck. Two crewman in a catwalk in the foreground working with lines. USS Whetstone (LSD-27) behind USS Catamount. The tail gate on USS Catamount is closing. One Monitor Flame Boat at sea fires a long stream of flame. A Monitor fires a long spout of flame. Smoke and fire on water. The Monitor in the background fires a stream of flame.
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