Opening shows a large paved area filled with M117 General Purpose Bomb casings standing on their tail fins.Thai workers are tagging them. Camera pans over the workers as they tag the bomb tail assembly casings. Another view from the side, showing the rows of bomb casings and Thai workers. Scene shifts to some M117 bomb casings standing on tail fins in a shipping depot. A yellow vehicle and a tractor truck with a loaded flat bed trailer pull into separate lanes of the depot. The same event is seen from a different perspective.
View through cockpit window as United States Army 12th Air Commando aircraft (Fairchild C-123 Provider) together in formation flight, over "The Trace", a ten-mile strip of land that lies between Con Thien and Gia Linh, Vietnam as part of Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War. A Fairchild C-123 Provider descends to prepare to spray defoliant agent over the area. View of pilot wearing hard helmet taken from behind the cockpit. View of “The Trace” (between Con Thien and Gia Linh) from the cockpit of the Fairchild C-123 Provider.
Gun camera views from U.S. aircraft strafing targets at Japanese Naval Base in Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, during last days of World War 2. Attacking aircraft fire at ships and boats in the water. One explodes in cloud of white smoke. Towns and villages near the coast are also strafed. Smoke rising along the coastline from fires ignited by the strafing.
American airmen engaged in routine work at a base in Germany near the conclusion of World War 2, in Europe. Three airmen mechanics open tailgate door of a mobile shop. They pick out tools from the shop. They work on an improvised washing maching. GIs hang up laundry on a line. An improvised GI laundry. A crewman reads while sitting on a tub. Airman cleans out Commander's staff car. One of the crewman eating K-ration. Crewmen rig up the washing machine. Several airmen smile as they jointly pull on handle of a pipe wrench. Airmen washing a 6x6 Army truck. Water running out of the truck bed.
U.S. carrier-based aircraft attack Japanese targets in Philippines. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat taking off from the flight deck. Men remove chocks from aircraft. U.S. Navy SB2C Helldiver taking off from the carrier. Men on deck underneath an aircraft. Plane director on the deck. The U.S. Navy TBM Avenger taking off. Gun camera scenes from U.S. Navy fighter aircraft attacking formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G4M ("Betty") bombers. They shoot down a number of them, including one that loses its wing during the encounter.
British fighter pilots, wearing life vests, stand about and converse at an RAF base in England during the Battle of Britain. Camera pans across their faces. An administrative officer appears to be reading some kind of official communication briefing to them.
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