Film opens showing front of an M117 general purpose bomb with receptacle for fuse. Gloved hand of a munitions handler is then seen screwing fuses in two such bombs. Next, a team of munitions handlers is seen fastening tail assemblies onto bombs. One handler uses a pneumatic power tool to fasten the tail sections. Boxes of fuses are opened and some fuses taken out. Fused bombs are laid out with tags on their fuses. An airman installs a tagged fuse into a bomb.
U.S.Air Force munitions handlers wait as an Air Force tractor pulls a flatbed trailer of M82 bombs into in a bomb assembly area. The team of Air Force and Thai workers manuallu unscrew caps from noses ot the bombs while a Thai worker uses a type of lug wrench on the fuze well of the bomb bodies. The scene is repeated in a re-take. The Air Force truck driver speaks on a mobile telephone. Closeup of Thai workers prying caps from rear of the bombs and inserting fuzes.
Munition operations at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Closeup of U.S. Air Force munitions handlers and Thai assistants installing fuzes in bodies and noses of M82 bombs on a flat bed truck in a bomb assembly area of U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. When they finish the driver climbs into the truck cab. Closeup of writing on truck door reading: "U.S. Air Force, 67B 1362, For Oficial Use Only." It pulls out of the assembly bay. Closeup of driver speaking on mobile telephone in the truck, as he drives.
Slate refers to Leinweber brothers helicopter in Chicago. View of their helicopter being moved out of a hangar in 1922. Closeup of helicopter controls being demonstrated. Next, a helicopter of M. Douheret, of France, is shown in 1919. Men stand nearby and watch its rotors turn in the breeze. Engine cylinders are clearly visible. Pilot sits in the machine and adjusts controls. Next he stands and starts engine. Suddenly, the running helicopter tips over and he runs for safety but returns to shut the engine down. In a second attempt, the pilot is again seen standing next to the machine, with its engine running. And, again, he must run to safety, as it tips over. This time it stops running by itself, and other men help him tip it back upright.
U.S. troops arriving back in America from Europe following World War 1. American soldiers crowd the railings of the R.M.S Mauretania, which is coated in camouflage paint. A number of tug boats assist the Mauretania in docking. Crowd of people and vehicles seen waiting at Pier 54 Cunard Line docks with "Cunard Line" sign seen. Horse-drawn carriage loaded with boxes. American soldiers ride on Army trucks leaving the Cunard Line docks. (World War One; WWI; WW1)
Senator Edward M. Kennedy at his desk. Aero Commander 680 plane wreckage after crash near Southampton, Massachusetts. Policemen and police cars at the crash site, where Senator Kennedy had been pulled from the wreckage. Sign at entrance of hospital reads 'The Cooley Dickinson Hospital - Entrance'. Cars parked outside the hospital. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and others at the hospital. Robert Kennedy at a mike in a press conference. Cameramen record the event.
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