A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers during the Vietnam War. Major Lolo Ball boards United States Air Force C-141 aircraft at an airport in Philippines to carry the wounded soldiers to their homes. She talks to other medics aboard the aircraft. She talks to wounded soldiers and instructs them about the precautions to be taken aboard the plane.
Rice cultivation in the Philippines. A farmer plows a rice field with the onset of the rainy season. A carabao or water buffalo pulls a plow to till the land. Carabao plowing rice paddy. Farmers plant rice seedlings in rice paddy.
Rice cultivation in the Philippines. Farmers harvest rice in a field. Crude implements being used to harvest rice. A Filipino man and woman wearing conical Salakot hats harvest the grain. The Filipino couple use sickles to harvest rice. Filipino women depress rice plants to facilitate harvest. A man cuts rice while a pair of women gather grains.
Rice cultivation by farmers in the Philippines. Farmers hold stacks of rice on a crude thresher. A man operates a wooden thresher to separate grain from chaff. A group of women watch the men thresh rice from a hut. Grain being collected in a container. A man grinds rice in a huge mortar with a pestle. A woman carries a plate full of rice and pours it into the mortar. Two women grind the grain with a pestle. Filipino women engaged in winnowing the grain as they shake rice in a native bilao basket to raise chaff.
Coconut cultivation in the Philippines. A Filipino man climbs up a coconut tree to pick coconuts. A carabao buffalo drawn cart pulls up near a pond. Coconuts afloat on the water surface. A man walks through coconuts as he floats them away to a mill. A Filipino man works with a hammer to split open the coconuts to be dried.
A film about events leading up to the independence of the Philippines. Filipino people milling about on streets after the end of World War II. People lined up to get food supplies. A sign reads 'Concor enrollment center'. Civilians being enrolled for reconstruction work after the end of World War II. The civilians work at reconstruction sites like railway tracks.
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