Film opens showing front of an M117 general purpose bomb with receptacle for fuse. Gloved hand of a munitions handler is then seen screwing fuses in two such bombs. Next, a team of munitions handlers is seen fastening tail assemblies onto bombs. One handler uses a pneumatic power tool to fasten the tail sections. Boxes of fuses are opened and some fuses taken out. Fused bombs are laid out with tags on their fuses. An airman installs a tagged fuse into a bomb.
B-52D strategic bombers, converted to carry conventional munitions, in Operation Arc Light, at U-Tapao during Vietnam War. Numerous U.S. Air Force B-52D bombers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) are parked in concrete revetments at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. A single B-52 begins to taxi out of its parking place. As it turns toward the camera, sunlight glints off its windshield. It taxis slowly between the other parked aircraft. Scene shifts to a B-52 moving slowly along a taxiway towards the active runway, where two other B-52s are holding short. Low mountains dominate the background. Next, the taxiing B-52 continues along, behind only one other holding short of the active runway. (These three B-52s are likely leaving on a 3-aircraft Arc Light mission over Vietnam.) View of another B-52 taxiing past one parked in a revetment, while another B-52 departs on a long takeoff role along the active runway, in the background. Camera focuses on a B-52 taking off and becoming airborne.
Views of U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Sabre jets parked in a line on field at Andrews Air Force Base, and moving fuel trucks near them.
Crowd waiting for funeral cortege of President John F. Kennedy to pass. Military band and marching units of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and the Coast Guards, followed by horse-drawn caisson with flag-draped casket passing. View of spectators. Funeral procession heading towards the U.S. Capitol. Military band, marching units, and the rider less horse passing streets.
Searchlights and sirens at night. B-18s at Mitchel Field taxiing in and airmen looking at map before taking off for test "bombing" of a wide area of the United States northeast during World War II. Cameramen at the field. Airmen boarding B-18 and B-18 taking off. Close up of button worn by civilian observers (many are Legionnaires from the American Legion), with label "Aircraft Warning Service - Volunteer Observor." Shows sky watchers at posts observing aircraft overhead and starting air raid drill. Telephone switchboard operators relaying information to airports. View of large wall map and controllers in pursuit plane headquarters noting details of incoming air raid report. Fighter pilots of U.S. Army Air Corps scramble at base and run to their waiting P-40 aircraft to intercept the bombers. P-40C aircraft conclude test and are then seen in formation flying over New York City. Skyline and skyscrapers of Manhattan Island seen below with fighter aircraft in formation.
Views of conveyor system in use at Bell Aircraft Plant, Niagara Falls. War production workers inspecting and working with aircraft moving on belt. Bell P-39 Airacobra taking off. Views of Bell P-39 Airacobra in flight. (World War 2 era war production effort.)
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