Film reenacts events in lives of American pioneers migrating West via wagon trains in the early 19th Century. They are seen traveling in the day, and then resting for the night by a fire, where a family bows their heads as the father speaks a prayer of thanks for their progress. He ends the prayer with an “Amen.” Next, the wagon train sets out again, during the daylight. A series of illustrations shows scenes of a small town in the winter with snow on the ground. People are shown going about their ordinary activities, using horses and sleighs. Some are seen ice skating on a pond. Others are shown visiting relatives.
A U.S. Navy Training demonstrates the methods of chancery against low frontal attack, arm drag and the leg pick as part of training in hand to hand combat, United States. Two sailors show chancery against low frontal attack. One of the sailors attacks the other from front. The other sailor puts one of his arms beneath the shoulder of the attacker, passes his other arm beneath the attacker's neck to lock it and delivers a kick to the opponent. Next they demonstrate the Arm drag. The second sailor uses one of his arms to hold the wrist and secures the elbow of the opponent with his other arm. He stamps on the foot of the attacker and drags at his arms which cause both to fall. Now they demonstrate Leg pick up. The second sailor grasps both the legs of the attacker just above his knees, raises him, holds him and drops him on the floor. (World War II period).
The Chindits or the Indian 3rd Infantry Division of the British Indian Army in Burma in World War 2. The troops with a pack train consisting of mules enter into a Burma village. They load and fire mortars and machine guns. A Chindit looks through a pair of binoculars. Firing in the village toward Japanese held Mogaung. Chinese troops move to join the Chindits. The soldiers and the pack train move forward. The Chinese troops in a reunion with the Chindits exchange hats and greet. A plane strafes Japanese positions. Smoke due to explosions. Machine guns are fired. Japanese forces abandon Mogaung and Chindit and Chinese soldiers move in to the destroyed area. Dead enemy Japanese soldiers amid the ruins. Three Chindits posing near a Burmese Pagoda, honoring the mythical creatures that are their namesake guarding a Pagoda.
British boxer Don Cockell with Fred Simpson and sparring partner Ron Harmon, while in training to fight Rocky Marciano in San Rafael, California for heavyweight championship. Boxers Don Cockell, Fred Simpson, and Ron Harmon wearing shirts that say "Bermuda Palms" (their training camp facility) as they jog on a road in San Rafael and meet an old man. Old man talks to them. Don Cockell practices on a punching bag. Cars parked in the background. Boxers in baseball field talk to children. A boxer throws the ball. Teenage boy serves as trainer, teaching British boxer Don Cockell how to hold the baseball bat. Don Cockell hits the baseball.
A major league baseball team Cincinnati Reds at a training camp in Tampa, Florida. The team members are given training. They practice pitching. Two players help a player to roll on a ball.
South Vietnamese Army soldiers in anti-guerilla warfare training and ranger commando training during the Vietnam war. Soldiers crawling under razor wire and firing machine guns and artillery. Tanks firing rounds. A ship on the move. Water from dam flows into canals and then into the fields. South Vietnamese farmers work on fields. Vietnam shown on a map with an arrow. Narrator speaks to virtues of the South Vietnamese people fighting for freedom against communist forces.
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