The coverage of the Boeing 1960 Progress Report covering the development and production of U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress G and H models. Interior of Boeing Wichita Plant in Kansas, United States. A high altitude view of the plant. Officials gather in the plant. The CTCI follows the CDI. The officials discuss. They scrutinize the changes in the H model of the aircraft. The model of the aircraft. A man makes a sketch and experiments for the model of the aircraft. Engineers wearing boeing lab coats conduct tests.
A film about training of 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. A train on the roll. Officers at a desk as they plan for a mock attack on a railroad train to impart practical training to 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel. Security guards aboard the train as they fire at attacking airplanes. Air attack causes damage to railroad track. Personnel inspect the damaged track. Caboose being informed about the damage. Security guards move to vantage points to provide a protection cover during repairing work. A signal man goes up a pole to make connection to an open telephone line. He makes a call to a dispatcher and the First Sergeant. The First Sergeant blows a whistle and repair parties load onto trucks. Others load onto railroad motor cars. A sign reads '725th Ry. Opn. Bn.'. The repair parties in trucks arrive at the site of the attack and equipment being unloaded. Broken tyres being removed. Another repair crew arrives. Rails being put in place and angle bar being used to tighten the bolts. A train rolls on the tracks. Guards on duty aboard the train. (World War II period).
A film about assembling of a sea mule tug in the United States. The instrument panel of the tug being connected. An oil-air pressure gauge being assembled. A wire cable being guided down a control tower. A cable being fastened to a terminal block. A heat indicator tube being removed. A tachometer being assembled and a cable being plugged in.
German ballistic missile A-4 being test fired from Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. The A-4 missile on a launch pad near a launch tower. Billows of smoke rise. A gauge shows a reading. The missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare. It is in flight. A part of the missile explodes and descends. The A-4 missile in flight. The missile descends through the air.
German ballistic missile A-4 being launched during tests in Peenemunde, Germany. A-4 missile on a launch pad near a launch tower. Smoke rises from the tail section. Smoke rises as A-4 missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare. Missile in flight as it emits a flare. A-4 missile explodes in mid air. Another A-4 missile lifts off as it emits a fiery flare. (World War II period).
United States bombers bombard Japan during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs over Tokyo, Japan. View of Mount Fuji in Honshu Island, Japan. Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 21st Bomber Command in flight. Aerial view of bomb dropping into a Japanese town. Industrial zone being hit by bombs. General Henry H. Arnold shakes hands with an officer in Washington D.C. A message written on a bomb. Message on the bomb reads “TO THE WARLORDS OF JAPAN WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN- THE B-29’S WILL REMIND YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!”. Buildings in Tokyo, Japan. A map of Saipan. B-29 aircraft land at an airstrip in Saipan. B-29 take off for a mission. Bombs being dropped over Japanese town.
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