A documentary film 'Your FBI' on the FBI (Federal Bureau Of Investigation). View of the FBI Headquarter Building in Washington DC. Director of the FBI Clarence M. Kelly gives a brief introduction. He talks about the history of the FBI from 1908 till 1960. A picture of the first Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation John Edgar Hoover. The insignia of the FBI with 'Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity' written on it.
American soldiers in Buna, New Guinea during the Battle of Buna-Gona of World War II. American soldiers and natives building a bridge of logs in a marshy area. One of the natives works with a hammer to fix the logs. The logs laid end to end in the marshy area to form the bridge. The natives carrying supplies walk on a path in the area. An M-3 tank among the trees with soldiers beside it. Two soldiers cutting wood. A few soldiers standing beside them. The soldiers seated on the tank. The tank moving on the bridge of logs. Other soldiers watching the tank. Columns of natives carrying supplies across the marshy area. A few men carrying guns and back packs moving on the bridge of logs.
First scene shows several Afghan national leaders conversing outside a government building. Views of the Helmand and Arghandab rivers that are to be dammed as part of the Afghan modernization project. From this point much of the film is devoted to the actual construction activities of the Morrison and Knutsen (M-K) Construction company (organized for this endeavor as: Morison & Knudsen, Afghanistan, Inc aka MK-A). View of a steam shovel loading a truck. a truck passes several MK-A workers in hard hats near a river, as it moves earth from the work site. A caterpillar tractor pushes rocks into the river as part of the dam building. MK-A workers atop a bridge at the dam site. Formations of tractors work at the site using compaction rollers, alongside other grading equipment. A bulldozer with a large blade pushes a huge amount of earth. A tractor pulls a set of compaction rollers. A dynamite charge explodes breaking up rocks at the site. Construction equipment roars past donkeys carrying burdens on their backs. A succession of scenes showing heavy equipment at work, including a drag line being run from an equipment cab labeled: "Morrison and Knudsen, Afghanistan Inc." Views of a canals created by MK-A as part of the project. Crops in fields watered by a network of secondary irrigation canals (unseen). An Afghan man seen silhouetted against light sky and river illuminated by setting sun. A vast field of grain. Small mountain valley with crops watered from mountain snow melts. Afghan farmers cultivating crop by hand on the farm. Farmers eating lunch on a small irrigated farm, as another walks past them plowing with a team of oxen. A mud wall fence marking property line. Masons constructing a home using mud.
The U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team on search and destroy mission, Operation Hump in Bien Hoa, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. American soldiers on jeeps,trucks and M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier on road and pass through a city.
The U.S. Army launches its operation in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team soldiers fire the M252, 81mm mortar. Soldier takes out mortar shells from the casing. He puts tapes on fins and places them on ground. The soldiers walk through tall grass. Soldiers wade across shallow stream.
Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. United States Marine gun crew push swab through the bore of their M1A1 155 mm gun to clean it. The marines,stripped to the waist, push the swab back and forth. View down a line of marines, cleaning the gun with swab on a pole. Hands of a marine as he cleans parts of the gun. Marine with the earphones on while reading a private letter. He jumps and starts waving his letter with joy after getting the news that his wife gave birth to a baby. Marines crowded around him as they pat and congratulate him. The marine with earphones on and letter in hand gives cigars to other marines. The marines laugh.
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