Launcher and crew in truck arrive in field. Soldiers get down from truck and operate an 8.5 ton launch station. The 3 hydraulic jacks are maneuvered to ground. A soldier sits on beam of launcher. The launcher is raised hydraulically. Missile assembly arrives in a truck. The sergeant guidance system and motor are locked and hunched under the launcher beam by 4 bolts. The nuclear war head, electronic arming and firing section are set. A soldier sits in the firing set enclosure. He checks the missile by pushing knobs. The soldier locks structures on launcher and gets down. A soldier looks in telescope. He gets down. Two soldiers sit near a remote at a distance from the missile. The missile elevates and turns. Missile is fired. Missile leaves the launcher.
Army vehicles move on road. Erected missile in field. A war head vehicle, a launcher, a programmer and test vehicle and a radio terminal vehicle in field. A soldier looks at the expanding disc of radio terminal. Automatic jacks move launcher. War head is locked to the dual motor. Soldiers get down from the launcher. A soldier, in programmer and test vehicle checks the missile. The missile is erected. Two men at the remote firing panel. Missile is fired. Animation of stage 1 and stage 2, of missile thrust and explosion of war head. The explosion of target is also animated. Howitzer in field. Number of simultaneous explosions in a field
A GB-4 missile and an Azon Bomb kept at a USAF base. Airmen attach the Azon Bomb to a GB-4 missile. Various components of the GB-4 missile are assembled step by step. Airmen attach radio control, tail section, radar and stabilizer, electrical unit, camera system, generator. Airmen put the warhead, fins and radar antenna to complete the assembly. (World War II period).
Statue of U.S. Army infantryman (called "Follow Me.") is seen at opening of film. Closeups of some trainees crawling under barbed wire as trainers observe them. Others are seen running and jumping obstacles. Trainees on a firing range training with rifles and M60 machine guns. Glimpse of soldier placing a large round into a mortal tube. Soldier firing an M40 106mm recoilless rifle. Infantry advancing across a field. An M48 Patton tank maneuvering. An M109 155mm self-propelled Howitzer. An M113 tracked Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) moving in wooded area. View of Infantry Hall at the U.S. Army Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia. The statue of an infantryman, called "Follow Me," stands in front of the building. Infantry training in a rugged area. They wear elements of natural camouflage. A 175mm M107 Self Propelled Gun. Scene changes to U.S. Army Armor Center Headquarters, also at Fort Benning. Tanks are seen maneuvering and raising dust in a lightly wooded area. An M60 tank maneuvering and firing its gun. A 175mm M107 Self Propelled Long Tom gun firing. A Pershing missile slowly being raised toward firing position. Gun crew firing an 8-inch howitzer at zero elevation. Shell exploding in distance. Views of elaborate radar antenna system and of Army technicians monitoring instruments and printers in a control center. Green Berets at the the John F. Kennedy Center for Special Warfare at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. They tend to a wounded Special Forces soldier in a primitive shelter. Others are seen reading instructions as they sit in foliage. Some maneuver aboard rubber rafts in a river. Two Green Berets set a demolition charge on a rail line. Soldiers engage in unarmed combat practice. Others train surviving off the land. An instructor lectures an audience of officers and men in an outdoor setting. Soldiers in a parachute shop with parachutes of various colors opened for inspection. Lines of parked Army trucks. Jeeps and trucks undergoing routine inspection and maintenance Doctors and nurses tending sick and wounded soldiers.
U.S. Navy pilots keep a cage of pigeon in aircraft. A motor trouble in plane. A man opens the cage. Another man writes a message with information about the plane's forced landing. Men send carrier pigeon with distress signal to the base. Aircraft mechanist works on engine of bomber aircraft. A man at the base takes the message from the pigeon.
Statue of Liberty. Picnic for union workers. Sign reads, "Amalgamated Shirts and Pajama Workers of America, Local 343 Picnic" College graduation ceremony. Americans voting. Signs read, "Polling Place. Stalls open 6 A.M. - Close P.M." and "No Loitering or Electioneering Between This Point and The Poll." A woman enters a curtained voting stall to vote. Aerial view of early U.S. interstate highway exchange. Suburban neighborhood development in California, with elevated view of houses in suburbs. A pastor performs a wedding ceremony in a church. An American family picnics on bank of a stream. Students at a U.S. college campus. Parishioners coming out of a church. U.S. Congress in session. U.S. Capitol building exterior with tree branches. In contrast: Military parade in Communist East Germany, with tanks. A sign reads: "Peace, Prosperity, good fortune" (in German). Civil unrest in various countries, possibly Hungarian Uprising or Hungarian revolution in Hungary in 1956: People during a riot or demonstration and a city bus is seen crashing through trees and into a building on a busy downtown city street; Street riots; protest gatherings. Contrasting scenes: Peaceful U.S. metropolitan street scene; Farmer plowing field with tractor; Cowboys herding steers; driver in tanker truck with "Cyclone Rocket" logo on the door, welders at a shipyard.
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