Opening is drawing of a tiger and film title: "A tiger is a man." closeup of USAF Aviation Cadet Colonel's shoulder board. Next he is seen from the back, as he speaks to an Air Force Officer. Sign reads: "Headquarters, USAF Preflight School, Lackland AFB." Cadets are seen in blue uniforms and white gloves., marching in area between their barracks. Views of barracks with glimpse of two cadets "marching tours" on a special path. An Air Force officer and several cadets on walkways between the barracks. Closeup of clock showing 4:30 (AM). View of cadets asleep in their bunks. Suddenly the lights go on, and they all rise. Closeup of cadets shaving., hurriedly. Another brushing his teeth. A cadet making his bed with tight military corners. One places his shoe partly under the bunk mattress to hold it while he shines it. Shoes being placed with care using a cardboard to assure the toes align perfectly. Cadets hurrying to a formation.
Men working at the U.S. Mint. Factories and buildings in an area. Interior of the factory. Men working to produce coinage. Men producing pennies with the help of machines and equipment.
Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates do calisthenics at spring training, 1950. Team manager Billy Myer confers with players, coaches. Tall trees in background. Shot of infielders including future Pirates manager and two-time World Series winner Danny Murtaugh in middle. Shots of Hall of Fame slugger Ralph Kiner. Shot of pitcher Cliff Chambers, who would throw a no-hitter for Pirates in 1951, throwing to Kiner. Mountains in background. Shot of spring training game.
Mrs. Rose Bucher, the wife of Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Bucher (USS Pueblo Skipper), watches her husband’s plight in North Korea on television. Rose Rohling-Bucher shares her concern about her husband’s condition in North Korea. News reporter Bill Warden asks Rose Rohling-Bucher about the possibility of her husband’s release. “I guess I won’t believe they’re home until he's standing in the living room”, Rose Bucher says.
Italian Army Alpini recovering bodies of victims from United States Air Force aircraft C-47 which crashed in French Italian Alps, on October 24, 1954, while on a flight from Rome, Italy, to Lyon, France. The crash site is at 8,500 feet on Mount Carbonè, in Northern Maritime Alps, near Limone Piemonte, Cuneo, Italy. Italian Alpini (mountain troops) lead mules laden with bodies of crash victims, in canvas bags, down a mountain path. They are seen placing one such canvas bag into a coffin. A U.S. and an Italian officer then drape it with an American flag and Alpini pallbearers carry it to a waiting vehicle and gently place it on board. An Italian Alpini honor guard presents arms and its commander salutes.
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