A pumping station in a half mile deep mine. It pumps out 2400 gallons per minute. Pumping machinery at the station. Blades of a fan move. Stairs near the fans.
Bingham canyon mine in Utah. A worker drills with a piston air drill. A crane moves drilled ore to a railroad car of 80 ton capacity. The rail cars are driven by oil-electric locomotive. The rail car moves in the mine. Blasting in mine results in smoke and dust. A train carries 45 rail cars to a 20 mile distant factory
Selected paratroopers are addressed by Director prior to their training as riggers. Director's speech includes brief summary of their 3 months training. Riggers are trained to lay out parachute without tangles. Parker, a rigger under training tries to lay parachute but cannot remove tangles. An instructor comes to help him and guides him to lay parachute properly. Riggers practice laying parachutes. Next, the Instructor guides them to pack parachutes. Parker along with other riggers pack parachute. All riggers are given parachutes. They lay and pack parachutes
Riggers on a jeep. Chains and pack parts of jeep. A modular platform is prepared. Honey-comb material, which withstands jerk, is kept on the platform. The jeep is kept on it and strapped to the platform. The platform slides over a track. Riggers tie a G-11 parachute to the jeep. The cargo assembly is ready.
Rigger landing on ground. Firing in a forest area. Smoke and dust arise after a bomb blast. Officials shake hands with Detachment Commander in a meeting. The Detachment Commander shows them a map marked with landing-zones (LZ). Men level a LZ. Thick vegetation exists on one side of the LZ. Men remove shrubs and weeds from the LZ. A man carries another man as a piggy-bag, on the runway to check sub-soil firmness.
"Little Rock Nine" African American students are escorted from Little Rock Central High School by armed United States Army 101st Airborne soldiers, and enter a Country Sedan station wagon under 'Operation Arkansas' in Little Rock. Soldiers board a jeep and follow the station wagon. Soldiers march and drill with guns in front of the school.
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