Rabbi, Lieutenant Leon Rosenberg of the Chaplain Corps, conducts services on March 11 (D-day + 20) for Jewish Marines of the 4th Marine Division, on Iwo Jima, during World War 2. He stands in front of a makeshift altar containing a pair of candles and a cloth displaying the Star of David. He reads aloud from a small book. Marines are seated on the ground in a group. A truck in background drives away as a Marine photographer in background takes a picture of the seated marines. While Chaplain Rosenberg is reading, a jeep and another vehicle drive past in background. After break in sequence, the seated marines are seen with individual prayer books containing Hebrew script. They refer to the books during the service. In final sequence, the Chaplain continues to lead the service, with the marines now standing. (Note: Chaplain L. W. Rosenberg was the first Jewish chaplain to see actual combat with the Marines.. He went overseas with the Fourth Marine Division and was the, only Jewish chaplain to receive the Purple Heart, having been wounded on Tinian, 25 July 1944. Chaplain Rosenberg was in more Marine amphibious landings than any other chaplain. Among these were,assaults on Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima.
The Aisne Marne Operation in France. Several Field grade American Army officers of Field Artillery pose before a building in France, during World War One. A Brigadier General stands on steps of the building and smiles. Major General Edwin Burr Babbitt, 4th Brigade Field Artillery, converses with another Major General and a field grade officer. Paper on wall reads 'Signals' and shows insignia of U.S. Fourth Infantry Division. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
147th Aviation Company at Vung Tau airfield in Vietnam. A United States soldier refuels CH-47 Chinook helicopter. He places JP4 hose nozzle into fuel tank of helicopter. Another soldier stands fireguard with a fire extinguisher. Helicopter in standby position ready to take off. Vietnamese soldier collects grains in a cloth. Barrel of machine gun in the foreground. Helicopter takes off in the background. (Vietnam War period).
Empire State Building under construction in New York City. Derrick lifts column and place it over base. Workers hold column and adjust it on the base. Worker hammers field bolts on column. A worker climb on column by rope and removes the hook of derrick. Animation shows building construction reaches to 6th floor on 8th. Construction site up to 4th floor.
Film opens with views of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) radar installation at Thule, Greenland. View of two airmen walking underneath one of the huge antennas. Scene shifts to the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) Command Post at Offutt Air Force Base, in Nebraska, where data from the BMEWS system is displayed on its monitors. The SAC Senior Controller, a Colonel, is seen on the "gray phone," via which he can communicate directly with various SAC entities. More views of BMEWS radar facilities. Back at the SAC Command Post, the camera focuses on the Operations Officer Controller, a Major, occupying number 4 controller position. He is seen talking on the gray phone. He presses a button labeled "Pease" (for Pease Air Force Force Base). View of his assistant (A master Sergeant). Next a flight of F-105 Thunderchief aircraft are seen closeup in formation with a SAC KC-135 tanker, from which one is receiving inflight refueling. View further away of the four F-105s and their tanker. Back at the Command Post, a Captain and a master Sergeant are keeping track of logistics affecting SAC worldwide. View of ordnance being transported on a SAC flightline. An officer and NCO on phones, and airmen on duty at switchboards of the SAC worldwide communications network encompassing ground lines of telephone, teletype, plus low frequency, high frequency, and ultra high frequency radio links. Switch board operator plugging in lines on the board. Camera pans over the controllers' positions at the command post. The Senior Controller (Colonel) asks the Operations Officer Controller (Major) to do a maintenance test of the primary alert system, whereupon, the Major lifts the red phone, and announces a test of all stations. Aerial view of SAC B-52 bombers parked on hardstands at an alert facility. Inside the alert area, SAC crew members are seen in their billets, where they stand 15 minute ground alert. One is playing a guitar, while the other is reading a manual. A partially open Minuteman missile silo, and a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic missile (ICBM) silo opening with its missile being raised. A missile control crew inside the complex. More views of the SAC command and control center, at Offutt Air Force Base.
Procession of the body of Edith Louisa Cavell in England. A huge procession seen walking and crowds gathered to see the procession. A carriage carrying the body of Edith Louisa Cavell, a British nurse during World War I, after it was brought back by the destroyer HMS Rowena from Ostend, Flanders to Admiralty Pier in Dover. A fleet of soldiers, nurses with flower bouquets and army band seen walking with the carriage carrying the coffin. The coffin is covered with the English flag. Soldiers bow as the coffin is brought at the Norwich Cathedral (65 The Close, Norwich NR1 4DH, United Kingdom) where it was reburied.
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