United States U-2 reconnaissance aircraft pilot in Puerto Rico. United States Airman First Class Tommy Miles assists a U-2 pilot Captain Gardiner as he wears MC-4A pressurized high altitude cover over all. Miles puts a soft inner helmet with bladder over his head. Miles tie pilot's boots. Miles puts on the outer shell of the HUD-2/P helmet onto the pilot. Pilot wears the MIG-1 gloves and helmet face piece. Miles helps Captain Gardiner to put on garment flying suit.
Crisis in Poland around time of imposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. Threats of Soviet military intervention in Poland during the crisis period. Soviet ships and landing vehicles sail towards the coast of Communist Poland. Tanks and armored vehicles offload from amphibious vehicles on the shore. Views of Soviet Nayy sailors and Soviet Army soldiers in uniform. Soviet Russian MiG aircraft strafe targets at a beach. Soviet military helicopters flying in formation. Soviet military Generals and other officers during a meeting. Soviet missile and rocket launcher trucks move on a countryside road. Rockets launched from a Soviet rocket launcher.
After credits, opening slate refers to the battle front of the future, battles of the Motherland. Opening action shows a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Momentary glimpse of the nose of a Mig-1 with engine running. Then a stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft takes off. Two of them are seen in flight overhead, and then several more. Scene shifts to some captured German prisoners of war being escorted by Soviet armed guards. Troops and more prisoners walk down gang planks from a large flat river barge. A T-26 tank sits overlooking the barge as its occupants depart under guard. Scene shifts to an advanced model T-26 Soviet tank moving across a field. Another is also moving in the background. Other tanks move past the camera, through sand, and past trees. A Soviet BT-5 tank speeds past the camera. Soviet troops firing Quad-mounted PM M1910 Maxim machine guns as antiaircraft weapon. Other antiaircraft weapons firing at a German Bf 109 aircraft in flight overhead. Aerial view of a German Stuka Dive Bomber (Ju-87). Soviet gunners firing a camouflaged 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft gun. A German Bf 109 fighter aircraft turns and makes a gentle dive . Next, a burning aircraft is seen plummeting to earth. A large explosion. Two 85mm antiaircraft gins firing. More German aircraft are seen and another one is shot down. Several early ,model Soviet T-26 light infantry tanks run in formation over sharply rolling hills in what appears to be a testing or demonstration ground. several explosions occur near them as they move. Field artillery firing from concealed positions in woods. A tree is felled by shelling and an explosion nearby raises huge clods of earth. Soviet infantry charge through barbed wire. One soldier carries a mine detector. Soviet troops charge through woods. Several German prisoners of war are taken. Numerous German prisoners seated on the ground in an open field.
Captain James Jahara of Kansas returns to his home base in Korea during the Korean War. American F-86 Sabre jet aircraft taxis. Captain James Jahara of Kansas, ranking American jet pilot in the Korean Theater of operations, returns to his home base after his latest battle with Russian MIGs over the Yalu River. A man signals for the landing of the jet. Captain James Jahara is in the cockpit. He gets off from the jet. His friends congratulate him.
Three Sukhoi Su-9 aircraft (NATO reporting name: Fishpot) fighters during the 1962 Soviet Aviation Day Display at Tushino Airfield (present day Otkrytie Bank Arena, Volokolamskoye Shosse, 69, Moscow, Russia, 125424) near Moscow, Soviet Union. Famous Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin uses binoculars to watch the airshow from a balcony. Three Yakovlev Yak-28 (NATO reporting names: Brewer, Brewer-E, Firebar, and Maestro) fighters in flyover. Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Soviet officials watch from a balcony. A Myasishchev M-50 supersonic strategic bomber with two Sukhoi Su-9 escorts in flight. A Tupolev Tu-28 (NATO reporting name Fiddler) long-range interceptor aircraft demonstrating at the airshow. A Soviet man looking skyward. A fighter aircraft (possibly MiG-21) climbing high in the sky during the airshow.
First high powered flight of X-15 using high thrust XLR-99 engine number 2-10-21. Take off of B-52 Stratofortress with rocket powered aircraft X-15 under wing. The flight is piloted by Albert Scott Crossfield. B-52 Stratofortress with X-15 taxis and takes off. Smoky trail left by B-52. United States insignia on B-52. X-15 attached under right wing of B-52. B-52 Stratofortress with X-15 in flight. A look of X-15 attached with B-52. B-52 with X-15 in flight at a distance. A tail of X-15. Smoky trail left by X-15. X-15 detaches from B-52. X-15 soars upward at high speed.