From "Army Air Forces special film project 151" known as "Wings for This Man". Tuskegee Airmen U.S. Army Air Force African American pilots flying out of Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama during World War 2. Training flights in P-47 Thunderbolt fighters. Pilots around bombers parked at Tuskegee Army Air Field. Graduating class receive wings from U.S. Army Air Force officer. U.S. Army Air Forces P-40 Warhawks, P-47 Thunderbolts, and P-51 Mustangs take off from air strip. U.S. African American pilots being briefed in the European Theater. U.S. aircraft strafes grounded planes on enemy airfield. A grave site showing crosses and tombstones. (note: narrated by Ronald Reagan)
Film begins showing a group of African American Paratroopers from the U.S. 555th African American Paratrooper Infantry Battalion (Triple Nickels) in Fort Benning, Georgia during World War 2. They are inspecting their parachutes, laid out on a long table. One of them is a staff sergeant. Next, they don their helmets and then put on their backpack parachutes. Views of them adjusting their parachutes. Closeup of a Technical Sergeant assisting a Master Sergeant with his gear. The troopers double time in a line to an area for inspection. Their static lines are folded on their backpacks, and they hold their reserve chute against their stomachs. A sergeant gives them a final inspection, and they double time to a parked C-47 transport airplane that they board. Glimpse from inside the aircraft as they mount the stairs to the cabin. Next are several glimpses of troopers exiting the aircraft with their static lines hooked to the inside of the C-47. Change of scene shows view from window of a C-47, as a group of troopers begin boarding the aircraft. View along the side of a C-47 transport plane troopers' white parachutes open as they jump from the aircraft. They float away down and behind the aircraft. Aerial view of troopers jumping from left rear door of a C-47 transport plane in flight.
School children learn traffic rules and are taught anti jaywalking rules in Cleveland, Ohio. Children drive on toy cars on road model. Other portrays standing on a side walk. They portray crossing a road. A boy holds a traffic light stand model. A girl with a small boy portray crossing a road. Model of vehicles on road model. A girls falls in front of a toy car portraying a road accident.
A new biplane aircraft passes testing trials in Burbank, California. A biplane on a stand. Wheels of the biplane raised. The biplane piloted by Charles Augustus Lindbergh taxis and takes off from a field. The biplane in flight.
The U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Vice Admiral William Francis Raborn, Jr after the presentation of Collier award in White House, Washington DC. President John F Kennedy seated. William F Raborn and wife Mildred T. Raborn seated on a divan. President Kennedy talks to others. Miniature of the Polaris missile on coffee table. The group has tea. William F Raborn holds Collier award as president looks on. People stand in the background.
(Dramatized) views of African American soldier's family after his World War 1 training in the U.S. Army in Louisville, Kentucky. An African American soldier's family as they read a letter from him. The letter written by the African American soldier, with text saying it is written from somewhere in France. Service star hanging in window to show that the family has a service member in the war. The father of the soldier takes out a sword from a shelf. He walks to a sharpening wheel in the outside yard. He sharpens the sword as his wife operates the hand machine.
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