Film opens showing an intermediate munitions handling facility near a seaport in Thailand. Trucks are lined up on the roadside, next to huge earthen berms. U.S. Airmen ride in the back of an open truck leaving the site, transporting crates of Mk 82 bombs to munitions storage facility at U-Tapao Royal Air Force Base in Thailand. Thai workers stand in a group, conversing, near a corrugated metal shelter at the side of the road, and watch as the truck disappears from view in the distance. Scene shifts to closeup of the U.S. Air Force truck driver in his cab, talking on a walkie talkie radio. As he talks, the truck passes large numbers of munitions stockpiled outdoors between earthen berms. View from the truck cab as it passes tractor trailer trucks and fork lifts operating in the area. Rearward view from the moving truck. View, from left side of the moving truck, shows red markers at the edge of each earthen revetment separating adjacent storage areas. Some such areas are empty. Next, the moving truck passes a mobile crane hooking up to bombs on the back of a flat bed truck. A team of Air Force munitions handlers is involved, including one moving bombs on a fork lift.
A tractor trailer load of MK 82 General Purpose bomb arrives at a receiving depot in the munitions storage area of U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. A Thai worker and an Air Force munitions handler install chocks ahead and behind the trailer wheels as other Thai workers climb aboard the flat bed trailer. Thai workers roll the bombs to an Air Force munitions handler who uses a pneumatic power tool to fasten tail assemblies onto the bombs. Another tractor trailer of bombs pulls into an adjacent lane of the receiving depot. Closeup of the Air Force munitions handler using his pneumatic tool to fasten the tail assemblies on the bombs.Thai helpers place tail assemblies on each bomb for the munitions handler and roll the completed assemblies into a line. View of assembled MK 82 bombs with tail fins and nose fuses installed and tagged.
A procession of cars proceeding to the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. American flags at half-staff at base of Washington Monument following the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. Units of U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard marching. Crowds gather on opposite sides of the road. Horse-drawn caisson with flag-draped casket and rider less horse going past crowd. Crowds following the procession.
United States military units marching on street to the U.S. Capitol for the funeral of President John F. Kennedy. View of military band followed by marching U.S. military units, the Joint Chief of Staff and caisson with flag-draped casket passing. Crowds assembling in streets. Police diverting traffic, motorcycle police escort lining up.
First class of Air cadets who were taught by Southwest Airways under private contract with the U.S. Army during World War 2. They are seen in classroom, receiving instruction. Next scene shows them marching in front of a hangar at Thunderbird Field. They stand in a formation and then Air cadets receive their diplomas and shake hands with U.S. Army Air Force officers. Final scene shows cadets taxiing their Stearman PT-17 aircraft out sequentially from the flight line.
U.S. Army mechanics and pilots sleeping in hangar at Clark Field, Pampanga, Philippines in 1941 (before World War 2). P-26 and B-10 aircraft on field taking off and in flight. Local native civilians admire the aircraft. Army officer fixing a notice on notice board outside barracks and Filipino soldiers standing in formation. Major General Jonathan Wainwright talking to other officer nears a river. Men tying military equipment with cloth piece and bamboo. View of them floating equipment across body of water. Water buffalo (carabao) and Philippine troops doing river fording exercises. U.S. aircraft flying overhead and Filipino troops perform live fire practice drills, preparing for future warfare.
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