American baseball star Joe DiMaggio and wife Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe board a Pan American Airways Boeing Strato cruiser “Strato Clipper America” aircraft as photographers take their pictures in United States. The couple waves to the people and get inside the plane. Plane takes off.
A reenactment shows a man pressing a switch to open an electric door in United States. He presses the switch and moves out from the door. View of a busy press room for a newspaper, filled with newsmen and reporters. A number of men work on their typewriters in the room. A man speaks over phone as other men continue to type.
Film opens showing illustrations of various warriors and soldiers in their miliary garb, from mideaval times, through the Nepoleonic wars, American Revolution, Civil war, American Indian Wars. The illustrations also show Army cadets, Medical officers administering inoculation injections to soldiers. Scenes shift to 20th Century showing American Uh1 (Huey) and CH-47 helicopters and U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. View from a helicopter directing fire from its side door at enemy troops. American soldeirs and jeeps in the Middle East. American Army ski troops moving across snowy terrain in Alaska. American troops assisting people with water supply and building activities in South and Central America. An American Army Captain working with a Republic of Vietnam officer counterpart. Other Amrican soldiers interacting with Asian allies.
Importance of Army being explained in the light of increasing Soviet and Chinese military strength, expanding communism, Cuban missile crisis, Berlin crisis and Korean War. Soviet military parade in Red Square. Chinese Army forces parade in China in review. U.S. Army soldiers in combat in Korean War, with soldier firing machine gun and two soldiers firing a mortar. American tank on streets of Berlin during Berlin Crisis. Fidel Castro speaking from podium at a rally in Cuba. Cuban rebels marching. Still image of Soviet missile sites on Cuban soil during Cuban Missile Crisis. American soldiers and marines in Indochina and soldiers wading in water. A map shows the regions of major conflicts in the world. Three types of wars being enumerated including general war, limited war and insurgencies. A map shows American Army establishments in the country.
Civilians crowded atop a U.S. Army DUKW (amphibious truck) during Army efforts to help them following the Louisiana Hurricane in 1965. Front view of DUKW moving amidst smaller civilian boats. Men in DUKW distributing bread and other food to local people. Men women and children entering an Army tent to receive food.
U.S. Army Reserve soldiers train at regular Army Camps. They are seen in formation outside barracks. Then they participate in bayonet practice. Closeups of Reservists and instructor doing practice moves using rifles with fixed bayonets. Next, Army M60A3 Battle Tanks and M113 APCs (Armored Personnel Carriers) are seen maneuvering in a field. Crew in an M113 APC moving through woods. Reserve infantry moving along a field with smoke rising ahead of them. Troops moving in concert with APCs as smoke rises from explosions nearby. Army ROTC cadets being led in pushups during training. Officer training graduates parade on a field past a military brass band.
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