Two GB-4 missiles mounted on a trailer at a U.S. Air Force base in United States. Trailer tows them to a USAF B-17 Bomber, while airmen sit on the missiles. Two GB-4 missiles attached to the underside of a B-17 fuselage. The aircraft takes off. Bomber launches a missile while in the sky. GB-4 flies and leaves smoke trails. Its crash near the target.
Target Seeker Guided Missile GB-6 of the U.S. Army Air Corps kept at a laboratory at a USAAC base. Two Airmen attach components to the GB-6. Testing the missile by holding a flame in front of it. B-25 bomber with an attached GB-6 takes off. GB-6 fired takes an aerial route from among the clouds and strikes its target among trees. (World War II period).
Radar Seeker Guided bomb GB-7 kept at a base of the U.S. Army Air Corps. An airman removes the nose cover of the bomb. A radar antenna inside the nose with an aerial can be seen. (World War II period).
United States Army Air Force airmen at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War 2. They stand on a ridge watching cleanup operations at site where P-51D 44-63912 "Miss Jackie" of the 531st Fighter Squadron, 21st Fighter Group suffered severe damage from a ground loop at Central Field, Iwo Jima. Other P-51s parked on the flightline in background. The site is surrounded by Airmen cleaning up and salvaging equipment and parts. Machine gun ammunition belts from the wreck. Men look beneath the damaged plane.
U.S. troops moving into position along the southern Atlantic coast. A girl is pulled through window of transport train, saying goodbye to troops. Rail crossing at night, man with signal light. Train past carrying military equipment and United States troops toward Southern Atlantic coast. Formation of United States fighter planes in the sky. Views at Naval Air Station Florida, with fighter jets landing and missiles loaded on planes. Aerial views of airfields showing massed aircraft and hospital equipment and ambulances on airfields by October 20th, particularly in Florida bases.
Opening scene shows French Nieuport airplanes returning to their base from a mission, during World War 1, circa 1918. They fly over their hangar. The French tricolor flag flies from a flagpole nearby. A crashed airplane sits, nose to the ground and tail in the air, near the hangar. An airplane taxis close to the hangar, as mechanics work on airplanes in various stages of damage and repair. Next shown are a succession of formations containing aircraft from different periods of time. A loose formation of biwing aircraft fly overhead, toward the camera. They are followed by a loose formation of twin engine biplanes. Next is seen a large loose formation of American Army training biplanes from the period between the World Wars. Finally, a formation of U.S. 1950 era B-36 bombers is seen in formation.
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