An officer explains and has some of the flight nurse girls demonstrate different type of life saving equipment. Girls demonstrate life jackets. Officer and the flight nurse students sit in an inflated filled life boat. Instructor demonstrates Gibson Radio that sends out distress signals. A girl demonstrates parachute.
Coiled barbed wire. Temporary quarters for Army staff officers in background. View of van and logo on it for "Michigan Bell Telephone Company". Sign reads 'Restricted Area'. Soldiers patrol the temporary quarters. Sign on temporary quarter reads 'TF Detroit Operations'. Officer enters the temporary quarters.
View of the United States Capitol building (E Capitol St. & 1st St. NE Washington, DC 20004 United States) in Washington DC. View of the Senate, House wings and the Dome of the Capitol building. Congress in session at the Capitol building. The Old Senate Chamber inside the Capitol where the Supreme Court meets (before moving to the Supreme Court Building in 1935).
Woman in a bathroom. Woman draws water to take a bath. In a separate scene a different woman is seen adjusting controls of a shower and taking a shower. GI quiz question on what consumes water more, a bath or a shower. Narrator says it is the bath.
American soldiers nail siding boards into place on the exterior of their new mess hall at the Dong Tam Base Camp in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Lots of hammering is heard from other workers (unseen). A wide strip, of what appears to be fine screening or plastic, has been fastened around the structure, above the top siding boards. Camera moves back revealing the wider construction site, with several men at work. One soldier stands near an M149 (400 gallon) Water Buffalo trailer. Other wooden buildings are seen at the camp.
Aerial view from helicopter flying over delta region ot the Mekong River in South Vietnam during the Vietnam war. The Dredge, "New Jersey" is seen operating in the river where it is increasing depth for a harbor turning basin that can accommodate larger ships, and pumping spoils, as land fill, to the shore. The chopper moves inland showing where dredging spoils have been deposited, near quonset huts of the base. Aerial views continue over such areas and then over the main base, itself. showing buildings, motor pool, and other features. (Note: Silent except for some wild sound of helicopter, at times.)
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