United States Army soldiers of B Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade during Vietnam War. Soldiers patrol through an area of damaged trees. Two soldiers examine an entrance hold at a tunnel. A soldier hands another soldier a white canister that the latter puts down into the hole. A soldier smokes a cigarette and looks at the leaves. U.S. Army Soldiers disassemble partially standing huts (which had been used by North Vietnamese Army NVA 2nd Regiment), pile up wood and straw of huts that they tore down, and set it on fire. A soldier operates a 16mm movie camera and films the event. Smoke rises from the pile of huts and materials set on fire.
Berea College prepares students for life. A doctor treats the students and nurse helps him. A technician or doctor takes X-ray of a woman. A boy on X-ray table as technician or doctor prepares to take X-ray. Dr Robert H Cowley, Head of the hospital examines the eyes of student. The doctor injects medicine in the mouth of a patient for tonsil operation. A girl in convalescent ward helps the patients to regain their strength after illness. A woman of town with her children enters the hospital.
Service Engineering second part of Wright Air Development Center (WADC) mission at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. A pilot places screen over air intake of a jet engine in a testing laboratory. F-84 Thunderjet aircraft taxis and turns. A pilot in cockpit. Tests are conducted on the damage to a J-35 jet engine from ingesting one small metal bolt. Slow-motion images of engine destruction with smoke and fire caused by the bolt getting into the engine works. Technicians examine pieces of the destroyed engine. They determine the importance of air inlet screens that protect the engine on the ground, but retract for maximum power during flight. A technician fits air inlet screens onto the engine of an aircraft.
The first successful powered flight of the X-15 Rocket Plane. Contrails at high altitude above, are seen, generated by the X-15 Rocket plane, 56-6671, and three chase planes. Scene shifts to view from a camera vehicle speeding across the Rogers Dry Lake bed towards the X-15 already landed on a runway. The three chase planes breaking away in background. Two Piasecki H-21 helicopters hovering low over the runway as the X-15 is obscured by dust it raised during its landing. The X-15 becomes visible as the dust settles. Officials step from a staff car that just arrived. The X-15 silhouetted with sunlight reflected on its top. Officials approach and surround the cockpit. One climbs upon the aircraft nose and helps open the cockpit canopy. Pilot, Scott Crossfield seen in the cockpit. Fire trucks and Air Force officers arrive. Firefighters direct a stream of cooling liquid at the rocket motors and rear of the X-15. Scott Crossfield, still in the cockpit, converses with officers and officials. Closeup of Crossfield in the cockpit. Technicians begin examining the exterior of the aircraft.
Post flight activities, at Edwards Air Force , involving the X-15, 56-6671, following its first-ever powered flight of an X-5 rocket plane. Cylinder with pressure gauges seen on sand. Technicians secure ground wires to the aircraft. One talks to test pilot Scott Crossfield, who is still in cockpit. Technicians examine nose gear. Some gather around rear of X-15. Fire Truck stands by. Test pilot Scott Crossfield leaves cockpit and accompanies civilian official to waiting car. Firemen hose down area around the X-15. Car carrying Crossfield drives away with white flag affixed to it. Ground crews prepare to tow the X-15.
NASA Project Mercury program in United States. Chimpanzee 'Ham' gets medical check up prior to being strapped onto a couch. The chimpanzee container is unloaded from a NASA van. A sign reads 'No Smoking In This Area'. The chimpanzee container is loaded into a gantry elevator and the elevator ascends. The chimpanzee is taken to Mercury Redston rocket and is put inside it. A sign reads ' McDonnell Aircraft Corp.' A technician at a control panel. Recovery ships leave dock. The space rocket is prepared for launch. Launch team technicians at the NASA mission control center. The countdown starts. The rocket is fueled with liquid oxygen. A tower. Men in a blockhouse. A man with headphones looks at the control panel. The countdown machine. A stand is removed from the rocket at a launch pad. The smoke comes out and the rocket lift-off. The rocket in flight. A technician monitors the respiration and heart of the chimpanzee. A man at a control panel. The mission event board shows the flight status. An airplane in flight locates the spacecraft. Recovery ship converges with the spacecraft. A helicopter retrieves the spacecraft and returns to a ship. The chimpanzee is taken out from the spacecraft and is examined by a doctor.
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