Japanese aircraft being destroyed by antiaircraft fire from U.S. warships and by U.S. carrier-based aircraft near Tokyo, Japan, in World War 2.
American baseball superstar Willie Mays signs a two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants at a reported $130,000 a year, then a major league record. Cameras, reporters seen covering the event as Mays talks with Giants' officials and journalists. Scenes of Mays playing baseball with Giants, including a steal of second base, his famous over-the-shoulder catch in game 1 of the 1954 World Series, and hitting a record-tying four home runs in one game against the Milwaukee Braves early in the 1961 season. Last shot is Mays with Giants' owner Horace Stoneham.
Film starts showing and American soldier atop a hill in France during World War I. He is hatless and looking through a periscopic telescope mounted on a tripod. Next, American troops are seen preparing defensive positions at the base of a slope. They are using picks and shovels. Not far behind them, in the background are buildings of a French village. Closeup of soldiers in their entrenchment. One wears a headset and kneels by a field communications device. A lieutenant, smoking a pipe, comes to him with a log book and hands him a paper dispatch to transmit. The soldier transmits the message using a telegrapher's key. The next scene shows two soldiers at another communications site, near a tall slender transmission pole, rigged up with guy wires.
Technicians board a new flying radar station (American Air Force's modified plane) at the McCllelan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. Pilot in the cockpit of the plane. Plane in flight at high altitude.
Aerial views shows marker rocket smoke over jungle in Vietnam. American F-100D aircraft strafing and bombing targets in jungle. General Purpose (GP) bombs and Napalm bombs are dropped over several targets in the dense jungle. Smoke rises from GP bomb bursts. Cockpit view of the pilot landing on a runway at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam.
United States Army's Major General John Norton disembarks from an army UH-1D helicopter at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam. He stands beside the helicopter and talks. He explains the importance of the Forward Air Controller and Artillery observers during the air-support operations. Another U-1D on ground in the background with U.S. troops aboard it. (Vietnam War period).
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