Views of United States Army cadets graduating with wings and receiving diplomas at Maxwell Field. New pilot officers of the U.S. Army Air Force are seen near aircraft on airfield, together with women guests at the ceremony. Group of AT-6A training aircraft parked at airfield.
United States Army Air cadets doing Calisthenics at Randolph Field, Texas. Cadets performing drills, vascular coordination and pyramids. (Shortly before U.S. entry into World War 2.)
Retirement ceremonies for Major General Frank P. Lahm, first military Pilot at Randolph Field, Texas. Frank P. Lahm with other officers and soldiers marching at the ceremony. American planes can be seen overhead. Frank P. Lahm was taught to fly by the Wright Brothers, organized the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1917 and was the first balloon pilot. (World War II period).
Shows Soviet Army personnel of Air Force arming a Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber aircraft to attack a German position. Bomber armed and it takes off. View of Pilot in cockpit of airplane in flight. A track made in snow by a German tank. German positions bombed by the Pe-2 bomber. (World War II period).
Slate reads (in Russian) "Departure from Moscow by Mr. Harry Hopkins." Harry Hopkins, President Franklin Roosevelt's personal envoy, steps from a car and receives farewell expressions from a British Admiral and army officer, as he prepares to board an airplane departing Moscow, after negotiating American Lend Lease assistance to the Soviet Union, during World War 2. Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin, arrives in a car and walks to the group saying goodby to Hopkins. Two Soviet officers and two men in civilian clothes stand on the airport ramp. American Ambassador, Lawrence Steinhardt and British Ambassador, Sir Stafford Cripps chat with an American Army Air Forces pilot. Group of diplomats and military officers gather wishing Hopkins well. Hopkins conversing with Chairman Kalinin. Hopkins making the rounds shaking hands with diplomats and a final vigorous one with Kalinin. He climbs aboard the waiting C-47 transport plane. It taxis out and is next seen flying overhead as those on the ground wave goodby.
Opening scene shows Soviet people walking around an open air display containing a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber and various pieces of wreckage. It also includes displays of German bombs of various types (presumably inert). Closeup of the aircraft cockpit cabin and remains of engines. A huge hole in the plane fuselage. Wired panels and wire bundles inside the aircraft. Closeup view downward, of people pressing forward to observe the displays. Soldiers guarding the wreckage. Camera pans across the aircraft, showing the swastika on its tail. View from close to the wreckage shows the people behind barriers. Trams pass in the background, on front of the Bolshoi Theater, with the quadriga atop it (statue of Apollo riding chariot pulled by 4 horses) covered by canvas during repairs from earlier German bombing. Closeup inside the display barriers shows the German bombs. A soldier picks up an incendiary bomb and walks to people in the crowd shaking the device and speaking about it. People gathered at one corner of the display where smaller pieces of the plane are piled up. Another closeup of the airplane tail with swastika on it. View of the Ju 88 from its tail to the front.
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