A civilian narrator is speaking from the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Post, at Scott Air Force Base,Illinois. He mentions MAC missions supplying war materiel to Israel, in 1973, and the famous Berlin Airlift of 1948. Scene shifts to troops in military exercises, riding across fields in U.S. M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) and walking with their weapons and gear. An M60 Patton tank moves along a muddy road, past the camera. Troops of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne division stand in formation on a ramp next to a MAC C-141 transport aircraft. They are about to be airlifted to Europe, to participate in War games, in Germany. Some of their armor and trucks seen offloading at a destination airfield. Major John Gray, Jr. of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division is interviewed, standing in front of a C-141 aircraft from the MAC 62d Airlift Wing, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. UH-1 (Huey) helicopters deploying infantry in a field and moving away as the troops advance during an exercise. M113 APCs moving past the camera. MAC C-141s landing in Germany as they airlift the U.S. troops who participate in these exercises.Several C-141s taxiing on the airfield. A MAC C-5 Galaxy aircraft with its nose hatch open and armored vehicles that it carried, parked in front of it. Closeup of turret on an M60 medium main battle tank. View of the tank being loaded into a C-5 and view inside the aircraft as the tank is maneuvered in its cargo hold.
U.S. Army infantry making their way through a lightly wooded area during training exercise. Field artillery crew firing an M114 155mm howitzer. Troops riding on a tank. Soldiers in the field firing a mortar and a machine gun. Aerial view of a U.S. Army supply depot, filled with supplies. View of C-130 aircraft flying overhead, and then, of interior cargo compartment with supplies being discharged through its open rear door, and descending by parachutes in the so-called "Container delivery system." Next in a closeup, a C-130 in flight close to the ground, delivers a tank, which is pulled from its rear door by a large parachute. View of the tank safely skidding to a stop on the ground. A C-130 makes a short field landing on relatively unprepared terrain, raising clouds of dust as it reverses its propellers. Troops quickly exit through the open rear loading door, followed by an M47 light tank.
U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) aircraft lands in Antarctica for Operation Deep Freeze. A person enters a National Science Foundation Center. People disembark the plane. Unload the equipment. Numerous vehicles at the base. Plane takes off with the shipment to Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California. Scripps Institute of Oceanography conducts research for the National Science Foundation. Frank S Todd of the Hubbs Sea World Research Institute talks about the airlifting of penguins by C-141 used for behavioral studies.
Willie Hoppe, Three Cushion Billiard Champion during an exhibition. Officers and dignitaries at a billiards table with cue sticks in hand. Willie Hoppe in the center. Willie Hoppe takes his first shot. People watch him play. He teaches a lady officer. Another woman takes a shot. Officers and dignitaries clap. Billiard Champion exhibits his performance. Officers and dignitaries keep their caps on the table and the champion plays his game.
Film shows early sailing ships near New Amsterdam and the initial layout of the city. Scene transitions to larger later map of the city. Numerous views of illustrated 17th century sailing ships in various conditions including severe storms at sea. Deck plan of a slave ship with maximum number of occupants shown in extreme close quarters. Ship deck filled with persons immigrating to America. American harbors filled with sailing ships. A skirmish at outset of American Revolution. Scene of American frontier wilderness with images of plow and flintlock rifle overlaid on it. Settlers traveling on river in a barge. The Boston massacre of March 5, 1770. City policemen subduing rioters. Settlers heading west in wagons. Immigrants leaving foreign shore board a ship. View of them on deck of the ship to America. New York City waterfront in 19th Century with sailing ships lined up side-by-side and pier clogged with cargoes. Workers on construction project using makeshift wooden plank bridges to traverse stream and work at the job site. Views of various building tradesmen engaged in construction project. View of city harbor filled with ships, now including some steam ships, and many substantial buildings.
Newspaper headlines from 1876 note Kansas as a territory for pioneer settlement...."Farms and Homes in Kansas!" and "To the Black Hills" Farmers with their families in front of prairie homes. Barn raising. A village along the side of a river. School children. A child's coffin. Men drinking together. A string quartet. A man making violins. Railroad construction crews laying rails, clearing rocks, and building trestle bridges, including Chinese workers and laborers during expansion or railway to the west. European immigrants on ships and just arrived on land, possibly at Ellis Island. Logging camps and loggers cutting trees. Large scale farming and market. Coal mining and other mining activities. Child coal miners and child labor. Industrial steel forging. Factory with train switch yard. Immigrant ghettos in American cities. Immigrant women sewing piece work. Immigrant children.
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