10,000 soldiers of United States 45th Infantry Division load their baggage into military trucks and bid good bye as they leave Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Troops move in trucks over a bridge as a plane flies overhead. People turn out in large numbers on streets to welcome the troops at their new headquarters in Abilene in Texas. Soldiers move to their tents. (World War II period).
United States Army Material Command headquarters in Fort Belvoir, United States. Technicians manufacture military equipment at a plant. Personnel work on Univac automatic data processing computer system. Researchers and scientists conduct research and development work in labs to come out with advanced military equipment. (This film also shows a CH-37 helicopter and a CH-54 helicopter, as well as an early MGM-52 Lance missile.)
In a dieting voluntary program an overweight sergeant and other men on low calorie dets eat celery and otehr vegetables in the Army mess at Fort McNair. A card on the table reads 'Diet Table'. The slender Army men feed on high calorie food, with plates full of food, as they sit directly across from those dieting.
United States Railway Coast Defense guns being test fired at Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Men load shells into M1888 8-inch railway coastal artillery defense guns. Men work on the artillery guns and fire them. Guns being test fired.
A new mechanized mine layer being used at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, United States. United States Army engineers display an automatic mine layer which digs the divot. Man works on a mine and mine being planted automatically. Earth being replaced over the mine by a bulldozer.
Cuban Leader Colonel Fulgencio Batista in Washington DC, United States. Colonel Batista also known as 'Iron Man' arrives with his wife for a good will mission in Washington DC. Close views of Batista and his wife. Scene from Fort Myer where he reviews United States cavalry and field artillery regiments with U.S. General Malin Craig.