American baseball star Joe DiMaggio and wife Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe board a Pan American Airways Boeing Strato cruiser “Strato Clipper America” aircraft as photographers take their pictures in United States. The couple waves to the people and get inside the plane. Plane takes off.
The lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky, and how they cope with poverty and maintain their traditions and dignity through music. Hazard, Kentucky: A large crowd gathered in a market place. People look out from windows. The U.S. flag hangs from a building. Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys perform 'John Henry'. People listen and watch. Men, women and children in the crowd.
Pilot Hawks dies in a Gwinn Aircar crash in East Aurora, New York. Lieutenant Commander Frank Monroe Hawks and his companion in the cockpit of a Gwinn Aircar. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight over the town. It hits high tension wires and plunges to the ground. Men watch the damaged aircraft at the accident site. Trees in the background.
Colonel TH Monroe, Commander of the American 15th Infantry and his staff eat at outdoor tables under a camouflaged tent in Casablanca, French Morocco. Soldiers drive a jeep attached to a trailer on a field. Troops on a field in the background. (World War II period).
Representative from United States Department of Agriculture meet Thomas Monroe Campbell, a Tuskegee Agricultural graduate working in a field. They talk. A Supervisor and the States Extension Director discuss appointment of Thomas Campbell as an Extension Agent. Next scenes show Mr. Campbell in his role as an extension agent, using skills learned from the Tuskegee Institute to instruct rural African American farmers to inoculate hogs against cholera. He also demonstrates pruning of trees. Farmers in a corn field use hoe.
American soldiers of the U.S. 90th Infantry Division, walking atop captured Fort Obergentringen, Near Thionville, on the west side of the Moselle River, in World War 2. Next, the Fort's German Krupp 105mm guns are seen firing numerous shells at German positions in Thionville, east of the river. American soldiers with binoculars observe the shell strikes from the fort. Smoke rising from the shelling. [Note: A September 17, 1944 wireless report about the fort's capture , to the New York Times, by Frederick Grahamby, stated that "The fort's name is Gingringen and from 1870 to 1919 it belonged to Germany." However, it is actually Fort Obergentringen (Fort Guentrange) on the hills of Guentrange, overlooking Thionville, and built in 1899.]