A review of remote controlled weapons of the United States Army Air Force such as the Power Driven Bomb. A U.S. Army Air Force base, airmen drag out a test power bomb, an AT-21 aircraft and a target plane PQ-2. The control system instruments of the power bomb in its cockpit are shown, indication meters and controllers. Planes take off simultaneously on a runway, PQ-2 gliding in sky. AA outfit in the desert. Anti-aircraft guns fires on plane. Projectiles burst near the PQ-2 airplane. Both aircraft land on a runway. Flak holes in PQ-2 fuselage. (World War II period).
The Army-McCarthy hearings held by the United State's Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations underway. Various witnesses give the jury their statements. Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, the Secretary of Army arrives in the court. He pledges to speak truth. The jury members ask Stevens various questions and he answers them. Robert Stevens alleges Senator Joseph McCarthy of various charges. Senator McCarthy replies on allegations put on him by Stevens. His chief counsel, Roy Cohn sits by him. Jury members of the investigating committee Karl Earl Mundt and others. Robert Stevens speaks of blackmailing charges on Senator McCarthy.
Huge crowd of workers at a ship building yard in United States during World War 1. Thousands of workers walk out from a ship building yard. Residential quarters of the workers. A horse cart unloads wooden logs to construct more of such quarters. A ship yard for building American ships. Cranes and scaffolds at the yard. A warship under construction, wooden logs and ladders for workers, kept on this ship. Another ship fully constructed slides down into the water after complete inspection of its hull.
Worker at a munitions factory in the United States during World War 1. Naval and field artillery barrels. A war production worker inspects the breach of one of the barrels. A completed field artillery piece is moved in the factory by an overhead bridge crane. Naval and field artillery barrels during the manufacturing process. Worker using a hand file on a naval artillery shell turning in a lathe. Naval artillery shells being moved by an overhead crane. Glass bowl with 10500 capsules for the first draft lottery in 1917.
Draftees of the United States Army at an Army camp during World War 1. New recruits move towards an assembly ground near the military quarters. Draftees assemble as marching troops. The military leaders inspect the troops from a reviewing stand made of wooden tables.
Soldiers of the United States Army at an Army camp during World War 1. Soldiers during calisthenics physical training session. Large lines of of soldiers in formation warm up and perform various exercises. Next scene shows soldiers practicing a running ascent of an elevated platform and then a leap off to a lower level, with bayonets fixed, as they bayonet sandbags, all simulating a charge into an enemy trench. The soldiers arranged into formation for review by officers. Officers of the troops sit on horseback at the front of the lines. View of many trucks and jeeps for transporting soldiers and supplies. Soldiers attend an instructional demonstration of automobile repair.
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