U.S. Army soldiers line up as officer hands each an award document on completion of Advanced Individual Training (AIT) and congratulates each one. Scenes of U.S. Army soldiers undergoing specialized training, including paratroopers training on towers and ziplines, rangers, and Special Forces learning tracking skills and honing hand-to-hand combat skills. Soldiers of Special Forces with camouflage make up on their faces trained in guerrilla and jungle warfare.
Opening scene shows a U.S. Titan intercontinental ballistic missile being launched from an underground silo. U.S. airmen at monitoring stations in a missile launch control room. An airman working to maintain and repair missile-related equipment and accessories. An Force Captain overseeing airmen at control room work stations. Astronaut John Glenn stepping from a NASA structure, fully suited in space suit, and climbing into a Mercury Space Capsule. Air Force personnel engaged in sports to maintain fitness, playing softball, volleyball, and basketball. An airman typing at a desk job. An Air Force woman sorting 88 column Hollerith cards punch cards by machine. An airman performing calisthenics outside his quarters on an Air Base. Another airman typing expertly at a desk job. Airmen lifting large boxes. Air Force personnel bowling for recreation. Others playing badminton at an Air Force Base. Airmen bicycling out the gate of an Air Base. Air Force bombers parked on a flight line. One, a B-52, is fitted with a large pointed missile underneath its wing.
A stream and culvert under a road in France. View from a hill of river below. An open staff car displaying one star on its windshield, carrying Brigadier General Palmer E. Pierce, Commander of the 54th Infantry Brigade. The car is stopped as he confers with Allied officers, during the 2nd Battle of the Somme in World War 1. Scene shifts to Chateau de Raincheval, U.S. Army Headquarters in Piccardy, France, where General Pierce stands in a gateway conversing with Major General John F. O'Ryan, Commander of the U.S. 27th Infantry Division, AEF. Several other officers accompany them. Senior Allied officers outside a bunker labeled "Commanding General." They converse and look at documents.
Demonstration by French tanks for American forces in France during World War 1. A French Schneider CA1 tank passes in front U.S. troops from the 1st Infantry Division, assembled at the Bois Plante's farm in Picardie, France. Close-up of tank's caterpillar tracks. Several Schneiders maneuver in field, followed by French infantrymen. Schneider passes camera, showing signaling device on roof and "spade" marking on side, indicating it belongs to the First Section of a French Tank Company. (Note: Twelve Schneider tanks of the French 5th Tank battalion accompanied the U.S. First Infantry in the battle of Cantigny, May 28, 1918.) (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Contrasts the methods used by witch doctors with Protestant missionaries in Africa. African tribesmen use herb brews to treat patients suffering from diseases. Witch doctor addresses the tribesmen and performs sacrifices to please the god. Men sit in a group as sacrifices performed. Men, women and children suffer from sleeping sickness. A man with ulcers on his body due to unhygienic conditions. Patients lined up at a mission hospital
Highlights the importance and role of science in business. Application of science in usage of metals to make them more useful for mankind. Metal being melted in a foundry, metal being molded under high pressure. Machining of tungsten to be used in electrical industry. Aircrafts made of Beryllium, a metal lighter than aluminum, take off and in flight. Ship made of steel gets underway in sea.
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