Animation shows the first Soviet satellite Sputnik being launched into space early in the "space race." Animated cartoon shows Sputnik 1 being launched by a rocket booster. Rocket takes off and detaches later on. Satellite being placed in the earth's orbit. Narrator refers to the satellite as a "new moon". Satellite orbiting the earth. Technician in front of IBM computers receives telemetry.
Reenactment of events in relationship between Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), American folk and blues musician, and Musicologist John A. Lomax.. Lomax sits at a typewriter as Lead Belly comes in and asks for a job. Lead Belly says Lomax gave a recording of his songs to the Governor, who pardoned him from prison. In thanks, he says he will work for Lomax for life. Lomax refuses because of Lead Belly having killed two men.. Lead Belly claims that he has changed and promises to sing for him. Lomax relents and provides him a job.
Sketch of 1909 aircraft that Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel. Progressive views of airplanes from earliest to formations of B-52 bombers in flight. Picture of Air Force Five Star General Henry (Hap) Arnold. Views of Wright Flyer being pulled into a field and readied and launched with Orville Wright at the controls. Two DeHavilland DH4 airplanes in formation as wing walker climbs from wing of one to wing of the other. (Wing walker wears emblem of black cat and number 13, on his shirt.) Drawing of Wright flyer airplane with various parts labeled by Lieutenant Arnold. Letter, dated 13, May, 1911, from 2nd Lieutenant Henry Arnold, of the 24th Infantry, to Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army, reporting on his progress at the Wright flying school in Dayton, Ohio. First pilot's badge (wings) earned by Lieutenant Arnold. President Wilson at inauguration of airmail service, from Washington, DC.
Year 1938. Adolf Hitler gives speech. U.S. Army Major General Henry (Hap) Arnold is appointed Chief of the U.S. Army Air Corps. President Franklin D. Roosevelt with General Arnold in an open car, inspecting a new bomber. Sketches of various airplanes proposed to modernize the U.S. Army Air Corps, including Northrup A-17-A; Bell P-39; and Douglas B-23. Views of U. S. Army pursuit airplanes and North American BC-1 training aircraft. Paratroopers jump from C-47 aircraft. A P-38 lightning airplane maneuvers in flight.
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. Army Air Corps Chief, General Arnold created Civilian Contract flying schools to train pilots. Recruits seen entering Spartan School of Aeronautics, Air Corps Training Detachment. Trainees being issued parachutes. Student pilots flying in Stearman training airplanes. P-51 mustang airplanes taxiing and in flight. Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle's bombing raid on Tokyo. General Arnold sitting with General Doolittle. President Franklin Roosevelt presenting the Medal of Honor to General Doolittle. Army Air Corps flyers being decorated by General Arnold. Scenes of air war in Europe from gun cameras of American aircraft. Lieutenant General Arnold mingling with air crews at an air base. An aircraft plant building B-17 Flying Fortress bombers. General Arnold with War Production Chief, Bill Knudsen.
General Henry Arnold dispenses with his prepared remarks and gives impromptu speech about air power. General Arnold at the Casablanca conferences, seen with President Roosevelt and General Marshall and other Allied military leaders. British bombers departing on nighttime bombing raids. A submarine surfacing. Newspaper headlines report German torpedoing of the ships, SS Robin Moor and SS Sessa. B-24 Liberator bombers taxiing before takeoff. B-24 aircraft seen in flight on antisubmarine missions. View of German submarine surfacing. View from inside cockpit of B-24 flying low with camera pointing toward ocean below. View from aircraft flying low over submarine. Explosion in water. Aerial view of B-24 in flight and view of explosions in water as seen from aircraft in flight. General Arnold consulting with General Joseph Stilwell and Claire Chennault. They walk in front of line of P-40 Flying Tiger aircraft with tiger teeth painted on their noses. Snow-covered Himalaya Mountains shown as narrator discusses "airlift over the hump" in World War 2.
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