View from upper deck of a ferry boat entering the terminal at Liberty Landing Train Station and Ferry Terminal, New Jersey. It approaches and reverses engines as it is about to touch the pier. It noses in gently and attendants set ramp in place using hand wheels. Once secured, passengers debark and enter building. Two men move baggage from the ferry.
Film begins showing two German soldiers in an established log lined firing position at an artillery training facility in Germany during World War 2. One is using a periscopic telescope. Closeup of a soldier hurrying along a log-lined trench toward a communication center. He picks up a field telephone that is next seen ringing and picked up at another communication center manned by several German officers. One takes the phone call. Scene shifts to an artillery crew at a log-lined gun emplacement where they attend to a 10.5cm artillery piece. Closeup of soldier signalling for guns to fire. Shells exploding in the distance. Crew at another gun emplacement hold their ears as their gun fires. Many more views of guns firing and smoke filling the air.
Opening slate “U.S. Moves Chinese Troops”. In Shanghai, American Navy Personnel spray insecticide, probably DDT, on Nationalist Chinese soldiers using hand pumps after World War II, probably as a delousing measure. The DDT insecticide powder is sprayed into the uniforms and heads of the soldiers. The 26,000 Nationalist Chinese soldiers, part of the United States-trained Nationalist Sixth Army, are mostly bald. Chinese soldier carries supplies in his shoulder and a puppy left arm. 26,000 Chinese Nationalist soldiers, carrying equipment, are led to ships heading to Manchuria to deter Soviet invasion.
A Mercedes-Benz sedan driven by Bob Bondurant. Sign for the "Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving" located at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. Gran Prix racecar driver, Bob Bondurant, drives. Grand Prix and other racing trophies awarded to Bob Bondurant. Various cars parked in driving school lot. Bob Bondurant lectures to driving school students inside classroom, mostly men but one woman as well. Bob Bondurant points to diagram. A woman drives a red Chevrolet Camaro on driving school road course. Bob Bondurant uses a toy racecar to demonstrate proper drifting. A car drifts on road course. Police car drives in road course. Ambulance driver drives during a practical driving class. Ambulance drifts on wet road course and recovers. Police pursuit driving in road course. Police car safely evades a tumbling block from car. Police car makes a sharp 180 turn during police pursuit driving class. Police car overtakes and apprehends car. Grand Prix student racecar drivers approach several cars, including Porsches and Grand Prix models. Driver puts on a helmet and enters car. Two cars both drive off, one a Porsche 911. Grand Prix drivers drive in road course during training, with two Porsche 911 cars chasing a Grand Prix model. Bob Bondurant speaks to female student driving a Chevy Camaro. Tire rolled in front of a moving ambulance. Bob Bondurant lectures with diagram. Police car pulls up after laps. Bob Bondurant shakes hands with female driving student. Traffic light turns red.
Gun camera footage shows allied fighters strafing targets in French countryside during the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War 2. Various vehicles, buildings and railway lines exploding as they are hit. German trucks being strafed by fighters. Aerial view of various railway lines, trains exploding due to strafing. Allied forces gliders on the ground. An Airspeed Horsa glider with “D-Day” invasion stripes. Two United States soldiers walk away from the Airspeed Horsa glider. British and United States soldiers unload supplies on the beach. More soldiers land on the beach in Normandy, walking down ramps from landing craft into water at beach. A tank and bulldozer drive up onto beach. Soldiers patrol the beach, with half-timbered Norman French houses in ruins on land. Famous shot of an Allied soldier collapsing on beach after being shot on the beach in Normandy during D-Day.
Apollo 11 astronaut trains in zero gravity on board a reduced-gravity aircraft KC-135 (Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker). Apollo 11 astronaut stands in front of the simulated LLV hatch at 1/6th G. Astronaut struggles to walk in zero gravity. Astronaut carefully walks to rear of plane as NASA staff in orange jumpsuits guide him. The astronaut stops in front of the console found in rear of the plane. Astronaut slightly slips but regains balance. The astronaut works on the equipment bay. One of the NASA staff holds on to blue rope in zero gravity. Astronaut jumps forward and moves backwards while NASA staff surround him. Astronaut falls on his back, NASA staff attempt to catch his fall.
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