Opening scene shows French Nieuport biplanes in aerial combat with German airplanes in World War 1. Many are engaged in a massive dogfight. One aircraft is seen hit and falling toward the ground. Next, two French aircraft are seen returning to their base. They fly over a hangar where a crashed airplane sits with tail in the air. Near the hanger are several airplanes in various stages of maintenance. Mechanics are moving one. An airplane taxis in front of the hangar. Scene shifts to closeup of a Lafayette Escadrille Indian logo painted on a metal structure. Scene shifts to a formal award ceremony for some pilots and crews. Their squadron members are lined up behind them in front of a line of aircraft. The view is from behind a formation of French soldiers with rifles, rendering salutes. Next, French soldiers parade on the airdrome, led by a military band. At this point the scene phases out as a fireball is superimposed on a map of Europe, signifying World War 2. Adolf Hitler is seen in closeup near the Eiffel Tower, when he visits Paris, France following its occupation by German forces in 1940. Several views of German troops marching along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and through the Arc de Triomphe. Closeups of some German soldiers in the ranks. Scene shifts to North Africa, in 1942, as American troops make an unopposed amphibious landing on the coast, in Operation Torch. Several landing craft are seen and troops ashore. A Dodge 3/4 ton WC-51 army truck, with half of its hood open, makes its way through the surf as it leaves a landing craft.
United States aircraft in flight in Corsica, France during World War II. A column of smoke rises from a field at Alto Air Base. A U.S. aircraft strafes a river bank. Pilot in the cockpit of an airborne plane smokes a cigarette. Another pilot in the cockpit of an aircraft while in flight. The pilot speaks over a wireless.
A film based on getting U.S. supplies to China from Chabua, India during World War II. A dummy antiaircraft emplacement at Chabua airfield. Gun crew around artillery gun at the field. Drums are rolled out from railroad cars. Fuel is poured into containers from the drums. Indian laborers at work. Bombs at a munitions dump. Native laborers unload crates from a truck and load them into U.S. Army Air Force C-46 Commando transport aircraft parked at Chabua airfield. A trainer plane and an ambulance are loaded aboard a C-46. The laborers roll bombs into the aircraft. C-46 taxi on the airfield for take off. Fuel barrels at Chabua airfield. A USAAF C-87 Liberator Express transport plane lands at Chabua airfield. Supply crates loaded aboard the C-87.
A film based on supplying observation posts of the Allies in jungles of Assam-Burma frontier during World War II. U.S. soldiers on a lookout post in trees. U.S. troops wait for the supplies to be dropped by a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane. Native people look through binoculars. Signal crew lays a strip of white cloth. A man gives smoke signals. The C-47 lowers the altitude and drops parachute supplies. The airplane circles the area and more containers are released. Crates are gathered by men and supplies are taken to camps. The C-47 repeats the same procedure at the second and the third camp site.
A dramatization detailing the rescue by ASR (Air Sea Rescue) aircraft of a damaged B-24 Liberator bomber in European Theater during World War II. A B-24 bomber with number 2 engine shut down, in flight over water. Pilot of B-24 contacts ASR control room based in England. ASR controller contacts U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighters patrolling over sea. P-47s escort the B-24 to airbase in England. ASR methods showing PBY taxiing on water, high speed motor boat underway, and dinghies dropped by means of parachute from P-47s.
The role of the military in the security of the United States. Aerial view of the Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC. Narrator discusses how the U.S. Army, the Navy and the Air Force work for the security of the United States. U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff seated at a table in discussion (including Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, General Maxwell D. Taylor, General Curtis LeMay, Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid). A U.S. battleship underway at sea. Closeup views of ships guns, and unusual shot looking downward into gun barrel as a shell is loaded from below. Smoke rises due to the firing of guns from the battleship. Aircraft taking off from deck of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CVA-19). Gun camera footage from a U.S. aircraft as it fires at what appears to be a Soviet made MiG aircraft (based on profile) during Korean War. Aerial view closeup of a U.S. Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber aircraft in flight. Interior views of aircraft bomb bay as bombs are dropped from open bomb bay doors. Aerial view of explosions on the ground and smoke rising from the bombardment.
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