American soldiers in an Army passenger truck, ride into a field at an Army base in the United States, during World War 1. They step from the truck, remove boxes of ammunition, and a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. They set up the machine gun and prepare to fire it. Scene shifts to closeup of a soldier back at the truck, opening its compartments and checking the contents.
An American soldier, at a U.S. Army base in World War 1, displays a Lewis machine gun without a shroud. He holds it at various angles for the camera. Next, a soldier is seen test firing the Lewis gun set up on an improvised wooden stand in an open field. View from beside the soldier as he fires the gun. Another view from behind him as he fires downward into a ravine.
Albrook Air Force base of United States in Panama. A United States airman with tattoos on his arms and chest comes, doctor inoculates him and he leaves. Another airman walks over to the doctor. Needle jabbed into airman's arm after wiped with alcohol. Airman winces as doctor inoculates him.
View inside mess tent set up on Wiesbaden Air Force Base in Wiesbaden, Germany, to support personnel in NATO Exercise Cirrus, 1951. Cooks are seen preparing and cooking food in large trays, and placing some in strainers to be served. Scene shifts to cooks dispensing dinners to some NATO airmen as they pass along in a chow line.
NATO Project Cirrus, Gilze Rijen Air Base, in the Netherlands, 1951. Camera shows a group of parked Gloster Meteor jet aircraft of the Netherlands Royal Air Force. An officer and airman climb about the cockpit of one plane. One aircraft is seen parked in front of a large cylindrical structure. The number "3" is displayed on its nose wheel cover. A portable power unit sits under its left wing. Next scene shows a fuel truck with long boom positioning the fuel hose directly above the fuel port on the aircraft. An airman atop the aircraft handles the refueling hose during the refueling. Closeup of him controlling the hose. Scene shifts to a Meteor aircraft taxiing past parked aircraft. View back to the fuel truck that has now retracted its boom and refueling hose. Next, a pilot wearing flight suit and a seat pack parachute climbs into the cockpit of a Meteor plane. Closeup of him settling into the cockpit and checking the flight instruments and controls. A Meteor aircraft is seen landing in the background.
NATO Project Cirrus, Gilze Rijen Air Base, in the Netherlands, 1951. A pair of de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft fly low over the field and make a tactical overhead approach. One is seen landing. Next a Gloster Meteor jet is seen heading toward the camera and passing low overhead. It climbs and makes executes an aerobatic maneuver and then speeds past the camera and lands. As it taxis on the airfield the background is rich in detail of the field and homes in the vicinity. Several Meteor aircraft are seen parked in a cluster on the field. The taxiing aircraft approaches them an parks among them.
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