A film titled 'Air Aspects of the Campaign against Munda' based on USAAF (United States Army Air Force) activities on New Georgia group of Islands, Solomon Islands during World War II. USAAF P-38 Lightning in flight over the Solomon Islands. An animated map highlights Munda Point in New Georgia. A USAAF officer takes a look at aerial reconnaissance photographs. The officer talks over a phone at his desk. An animated map highlights Vila in Kolombangara. An animated map connects Vila and Munda Point with Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal. U.S. 13th Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bombers take off from an airfield and bomb Japanese airfield at Munda Point.
A training film based on biological warfare defense aboard a U.S. ship in the United States. Damage control personnel work with an air sampling kit to take air samples. A man puts a liquid in an impinger and prepares two molecular filters. He takes out a tube containing a nutrient which is the food for bacteria. He fits a filter on one of the impinger and removes cotton plugs. The man connects the impinger to a pump. The pump draws air through the impinger and BW (Biological Warfare) agents are trapped in the liquid. The impinger is inverted, the liquid goes through the filter and bacteria is caught on it. The man removes the filter and the liquid is kept in a container. The liquid from the impinger is also preserved. Samples are sent to a hospital ship by a helicopter for analysis. Laboratory testing of the samples. A man injects an animal to identify the BW agent. A doctor aboard the ship examines the laboratory results.
Air Defense displays in NORAD (North American Air Defense) Command Post, Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Airmen updating the displays. NORAD commander, General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy, are in the Control Room. General Kuter uses telephone. Technicians in radar warning site detect two target missile returns on their scope. U.S. ship at sea detects target returns on its radar. EC-121 aircraft aloft detects radar returns. All this information is reported and consolidated at NORAD command post. Views of hands closeup on typewriter and teletype machines. View of vintage punch tape or ticker tape moving through a machine to be read. Close-up views of hand reaching for phones with choice of yellow phone, black phone, or red phone. Canadian and American officers report. General Kuter and Canadian deputy consult.
Life of Air Force personnel families at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, United States. Wives of U.S. Air Force personnel exercise in a gymnasium. Women wearing unitards use a rowing machine, do inverted bicycle leg exercises, and lift weights using a barbell and bench press.
American General William D Mitchell (aka Billy Mitchell) at a desk in his office in Middleburg, Virginia. General Mitchell points out the loopholes in air support at Long Island for New York. He urges that America must build up its strength in building more bomber aircraft. General Mitchell says that air power is the prime strength of any nation for directly attacking the enemy's key installations. The General demands the construction of an air base in Alaska.
United States Air Force 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. Major at desk speaks to United States Air Force Sergeant at operations center, who writes in a log book. A map hangs in the background.
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