Interview by Harry Ellis in Washington DC, with reporter from London joining via telephone. Guest U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. They discuss the insurgency among religious groups in Afghanistan. Senator Jim Sasser states that the Congress of the United States is of the opinion to provide more aid and weapons to the Afghan fighters and funds going to them will not violate the United States law. Correspondent and host Harry Ellis thanks the guests and other reporters at the end of the Interview.
A United States post-war report about salvage and reclamation efforts to reuse supplies and reduce costs both during World War 2 and after the war. Technicians create aluminum plates for Army mess gear from salvaged aircraft parts during World War 2. Reclaimed parts used to make washing machine of gasoline drums, field telephone wires, air force tire trailer. The army salvaging and reclaiming cranes, chains, tents, tanks, shoes, axes, medical equipment, musical instruments, fire lamps, fire extinguishers. Technicians load crates of reclaimed materials on conveyor belts. An Army signal corps cameraman holding a motion picture camera. Films being picked up in bags from an Army van. Films being edited, cut, rebuilt and run on film projector equipment.
Breguet 14 A.2 bombers parked in a row in Clermont, France during World War I. American ground crewmen mounting 155mm bombs under the wing of a Breguet 14 A.2 bomber. U.S. soldier fuses a 155mm bomb. Airman in Breguet 14A.2 bomber winds up bomb release mechanism and looks into a sighting instrument. A bar with pegs on it turning in the wing of Breguet 14 A.2 bomber. Officer closes the hatch of the wing. Officers hold 115mm, 115 long, 115 short and 75mm shells in hand. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Several aircraft flying high overhead during World War I. Scene shifts to soldiers on the ground, at an airfield. One is looking skyward with binoculars. Two others lean over a table with paper stretched out on it. A third soldier stands at a large black cloth-covered box, where only his legs are seen.(This is a camera obscura.) The soldier, with binoculars, joins the two looking over the table and paper, which contains a diagram of concentric rings. One uses a ruler to make marks on the diagram.Air Service man inside the Camera Obscura plots the course of an aircraft. Two Air Service Lieutenants hold and look through old and new Michelin bombsights. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
World War 1 mechanics of the U.S. Army Air Service 99th Aero Squadron sitting and standing beside parked Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft in Dogneville, France. Lt. G C Khale wears his flying helmet. Lt. G C Khale and Lt. F A Hill climb into cockpit of Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft. Lt. Hill puts ammunition canister on twin machine gun in rear cockpit. Ground crewman hands an aerial camera to Lt. F A Hill. Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft taxiing and taking off.
Ground Crewmen turn prop on Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft. The aircraft takes off from the ground. U.S. Air Service Lt. Frank A Llewellyn standing beside Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft, puts on flight goggles. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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