A U.S. Army Air Force aircraft flies in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A U.S. aircraft takes off. The aircraft in flight over water. Aerial view of a island and a U.S. fleet in a harbor. Aerial view of a U.S. air base.
A United States Air Force C-47D Skytrain aircraft at an air base in the United States. The engines of the airplane start. The airplane taxis on a runway.
U.S. Air Force Aviation Cadets in preflight training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. A field filled with aviation cadets exercises under the direction of an athletic director. They do pushups and return to standing positions, and then do squat thrusts to repeat the sequence.
U.S. Air Force Aviation Cadets in pre-flight training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, participate in a formal sunset retreat ceremony. View of a cadet slowly lowering the American flag as three buglers sound Evening Colors. The body of cadets is assembled in large formations in the background.
Daisy track run No. 568, using live animal chimpanzee No. 35. Men wheel a cart holding a chimpanzee, strapped down during test. The chimpanzee is lifted by a team of men and strapped, laying on its side, to a sled on the high speed air-powered daisy track at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. Close up shots of the men fastening the chimpanzee into place. A man uses a stethoscope on the ape. A slate is held up for the camera above the monkey. Scene changes and a man pulls a cord to launch the sled. The sled carrying the chimpanzee is launched forward and abruptly halts at the end of the track. The team of men approach the chimpanzee and inspect it. Close ups of chimpanzee strapped to sled, unmoving. The chimpanzee is untied by the men and lifted back onto the cart, where it is strapped down again.
A U.S. Air Force airman and a British man tour the airfield at the deserted RAF Molesworth Air Force Base in England, 1954, ten years after WW2. The two men climb a staircase and ladder to reach the top of the operations building, the windows of which are damaged. The American soldier, once on top of the building, raises his arm and points. Sweeping shots of the now grassy, unused airfield. Trucks and cars pass on a nearby road.
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