Opening scenes are paintings illustrating the physical rigors surmounted by earlier Americans, from the pioneers through World Wars I and II. View of Strategic Air Command B-52 bombers parked on a flight line. Ground crew makes adjustment on advanced cruise missile fastened under a wing. Air Force air traffic controllers in a control tower. An Air Force airman playing with his child. A forklift being employed to move heavy cargo from a flatbed truck. Air Force personnel seated at duty stations with few physical demands. An Airman seated at home passively watching television with a boy (his son) in the family living room. An Air Force Captain, Flight Surgeon, discusses deleterious effects of automation, etc. on physical fitness of service personnel. View of an Air Force male subject being tested on a treadmill, while his vital signs are being constantly monitored. Results from group studies show only 5% in excellent physical condition. The Flight surgeon is seen, again, exhorting Air Force personnel to pursue physical fitness, for themselves, and their country.
Italian release of 1936 Berlin Olympics film. Olympic village athlete camp in Elstal, Wustermark, Germany. Birds on trees and cranes on river bank. Athletes run through a forest and a wading stream to prepare for Berlin Olympics. They take steam bath and then dive and swim in a river or lake and lounge on a deck by the water.
Manufacturing of aircraft in United States World War I. Huge logs of wood placed on rail road flat cars to be transported. Power crane stacks the timber. Workers in a lumber mill cut and pile up lumber. Men pile up lumber as Army officers inspect them.
British Royal Navy flight operations aboard United States aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CVA-36) in 1953, A Royal Navy Hawker Seahawk aircraft makes a low pass over the angled flight deck on the Antietam. Next are seen a succession of successful arrested landings by six Seahawk aircraft. The last one taxis after being released from arresting gear.
President Franklin D Roosevelt on vacation in Warm Springs, Georgia. President Roosevelt arrives in Warm Springs and get off a railroad car at the station. A large crowd gathers to welcome him. President Roosevelt smiles and speaks to the people. Many men, women and children gather along the roadside to welcome the President. Children waving to President Roosevelt. Some young men in uniforms of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) are in the crowd. Everyone appears jubilant and waves as President's car drives past them.
Aerial view of Fort Trumbell, Connecticut. Coast Guard enlistees learn to tie different types of seaman's knots. At a signal drill they learn flag semaphore. Men receive radio instructions and operate radio sets as well as telegraph keys.
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