Spectators collect to watch the Detroit New Trophy Race. A Ford Tri-Motor on a field takes off. The plane in flight. Aerial view of a mooring tower. Air balloons anchored on a field. Sign on the balloons read 'Detroit New Trophy Race'. Many spectators on the field watch the balloon race.
U.S. soldiers help wounded comrades in South Vietnam. Soldiers crouch and move up. Unshaven soldier looks at fire and talks. A soldier catches shovels thrown by him. Wounded soldier is helped over branches. Soldier crouches and talks on radio. A soldier near him directs the man who walks in. Two men dig. Two men carry empty litter. Six men carry a man on litter. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers in South Vietnam. Soldier speaks over the radio and keeps talking as he gives hand set to another soldier. Soldiers seated among dead branches. Soldier near a machine gun talks to another man. Soldiers wary as they go through tangle. A soldier with rifle in his arms chews gum and look around. Two men dig. An ammunition belt is picked up. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade making their way across a valley in Vietnam. They dismantle and flatten a wooden pole hut in an empty village that had been used by North Vietnamese NVA 2nd Regiment. Next, a U.S. soldier strikes a match and they set fire to roofs of empty huts and crushed huts to destroy them. (Vietnam War period).
The development of weapon system at the Wright Air Development Center of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. F-86D Sabre aircraft at the base. A pilot in a cockpit. Pilot wears a helmet, flying suit and oxygen mask. Pilot checks control. Various new type parts of the F-86D aircraft are demonstrated like the fuel engine, normal engine, emergency engine etc. Pilot work on controls F-86D taxis and takes off. Radar screen in operation. Radar screens in operation in the background. F-86D in flight. Students receive instructions in a classroom. Students at radarscope. Technicians and workers during a construction of runway. Technicians and Project engineers at work in an office. View of the Joint Project Officers at work. View of Wright Air Development organization and of buildings at Wright Air Development Center (WADC) in Ohio. Entrance of a building at the facility.
Film opens showing people in an American city (possibly Chicago) celebrating the Allied victory over Japan on VJ Day, August 15th, 1945. Scene shifts abruptly to Chicago, Illinois, where French General Charles de Gaulle is seen saluting in a reviewing stand at Victory Plaza near Lasalle Street entrance to City Hall. (On August 24th, he had accepted an invitation from Mayor Edward Kelly to stop in Chicago on August 27-28, 1945, during his visit to the U.S. and Canada.) Next, general de Gaulle and Mayor Kelly are seen in an open car in a motorcade amidst crowds of well-wishers. Enthusiastic spectators run along side their car. Glimpse of a dense crowd of people, including a contingent of sailors in dress whites. Final scene shows General de Gaulle speaking with reporters and photographers near a sign reading "W-G-N." (A Chicago radio station). (World War II period).
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