Detachment Commander discuss with another official. A map showing position of a river. Animation shows specifications for day and night landing of light aircraft in water LZ (Landing Zone). Required depth and wind speeds blowing around in a water LZ are animated. Various stations and RCL (Reception Committee Leader) are marked on a water LZ in animation. A green line indicates night signal formed of light while a green patch marks day signal from a signal bomb in the animation. Security party checks the LZ. They board four boats and leave for LZ. An aircraft approaches LZ. A signal is given to land. It lands, turns to right and reach a boat forming RCL. It then takes off.
A helicopter moves in sky as it's pilot looks down. Animation shows specifications for night landing of helicopter in LZ (Landing-Zone). A map on ground on which stations and RCL (Reception Committee Leader) positions are shown with red and blue chips. Detachment Commander with soldiers around the map discusses landing procedure for helicopter during night. Soldiers with guns move in LZ. Recognition signal is given from ground. A helicopter approaches LZ. It lands. Wounded soldier on stretcher is moved to helicopter. The helicopter takes off.
Film opens showing a U.S. Army M115 Field Howitzer 8 inch (Towed) firing in a field. fireball emerges from the gun barrel. Several M101-105mm-howitzers fire in a field. Gun crews firing M114 155 mm Howitzers. Next scene shows numerous black flak clouds over a hilly landscape. Then shells explode on the ground. Glimpse of the breech on a 155mm M1 gun. A soldier holding his ears as he calls a firing command. A crew firing an M115 8-inch Field Howitzer. An Honest John missile in firing position on a mobile launcher. It is launched and rises vertically creating heavy clouds of smoke. Next, several 155mm M109, Self Propelled howitzers are seen proceeding along a dirt road. A gun crew fires a 105mm Howitzer M101A1 (Towed) under direction of a Sergeant. A Warhead (conventional, or nuclear) being assembled to the motor of an Honest John Missile MGR-1B (M50) 762mm Rocket. Next, a soldier installs tail vanes on the missile whick is seen being slowly raised upward on its M386 mobile launcher.
A field with trees in patches at distant. A soldier views through telescope. He looks at a rocket launcher. Trucks move on ground. A rocket is fired. It rises in air.
Rube Collins, African American tenant farmer in the American rural south, at work as he sharpens his tools. Hannah, his wife, draws a bucket of water from well. Obe, one of his sons, is holding a rifle or shotgun which he inspects. A woman feeds poultry. A child sits on stairs and eats. People engaged in farming in the fields. They use a tool, possibly a hoe, clearing space between planted rows of a crop, possibly cotton. They leave the fields. African American children play in front of a simple farmhouse or cabin, with one out building. A man plays violin and a older woman sits next to him in a rocking chair. Children wearing no shoes dance in the dirt in front of the house.
Rube Collins, a tenant farmer and Phillpot, his neighbor with horses in a field. Phillpot shows pest infected cotton plant to Collins. Both move to their landlord on horses. Collins comes out with landlord and shows him the sample of infected plant. The three of them, along with county agent reviews the sample. More people gather around them. Boll Weevil moves in infected plants. Farmers pick infected plants and burn them. Farmers moving in a field, behind horse drawn plows. Collins working in a corn field. Collins, Hannah and Obe engaged in their works outside their house.
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