A USAF freight aircraft lands and it is unloaded in Japan. A pilot in the cockpit. The plane takes off. The pilot and a copilot at the controls. A U.S. plane is in flight. Views of soldiers in the plane. Aerial views of an air base. The plane lands. A man talks on headsets. Soldiers unload the plane. Men take out a military truck through the ramp of the freight aircraft. Trucks, cartons and drums are unloaded from the aircraft. The drums are transfered into a truck. Men transfer cargo, cylinders, airplane wings and boats to the transport truck. U.S. soldiers disembark from the plane and move into a field. Soldiers stand on the air base ground. The plane takes off and flies.
Activities of British paratroopers in North Africa. View of two British soldiers. Many U.S. Air Force C-47military transport aircraft parked at the airfield. British paratroopers stand in a group for final briefing before boarding aircraft. Planes parked in a line at the airfield. A soldier puts on a helmet. The paratroopers check each others' equipment. They board a plane. Views out the open rear door of the C-47 during takeoff. The field is filled with C-47s and a few other planes. View inside the C-47 cabin with paratroopers in the plane. Paratroopers jumping out the rear door. U.S. C-47s in formation flight. The planes land, one at a time back at the airfield. (World War II period).
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his entourage, arrives at the Washington National Airport, aboard the President's VC-118 (DC-6) aircraft. The Shah's military and diplomatic companions precede him down the steps of the aircraft and are greeted by the President and U.S. officials. An honor guard stands in formation on the airport ramp. A color guard carries flags of the United States and Iran. President Truman escorts the Shah in a walking review of the assembled Honor guard. U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Mohammad Pahlavi seated in an open car. The car is driven away.
American plane bombs a U.S. ship during aerial bombarding testing in United States. Pilot in an American plane. U.S. ship underway at sea. Aircraft bombards a ship during aerial bombarding testing. Brief view of Sikorsky S-38 amphibians in flight. Plane flies above a ship. Explosions and smoke rises. A United States aircraft carrier at sea.
Historic scenes in development of U.S. Naval aviation. Early flying boat. Numerous scenes of landing incidents and accidents aboard early U.S. aircraft carriers. Aircraft falling off the sides and ends of the flight decks. Landing with only one gear extended.
As film opens, Brigadier General William H. Rupertus, Assistant Commander of the First Marine Division (on the left) and Major General Alexander McCarrell "Sandy" Patch (in the center) Commander of the U.S. Army 23rd Infantry Division (the Americal Division) and his Assistant Commander, U.S. Army Brigadier General Edmund Sebree, are seen looking at a map on Guadalcanal, during World War 2. Rupertus converses with Patch and shakes his hand. He then shakes hands with Sebree, as both of them laugh at some comment made. General Sebree salutes General Rupertus, who returns his salute, and the three of them walk away. Close up of General Patch, posing for the camera. He fastens the chin strap on his steel helmet and then releases it. Closeup of General Rupertus, posing for the camera.
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