General Twining arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Air Force, in Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. General Nathan Twining steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of Air Force Pilots. He congratulates Captain John Mitchell and then speaks to Pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron. General Twining and other Pilots stand in front of a P-38 fighter airplane and talk. Pilots who shot three Zero Fighters and three bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) over Ki hill Airfield near Munda Point. The three Pilots, Captain Thomas Lamphier, Jr.,, Lieutenant Busby Frank Holmes and Lieutenant Alex E Barber pose for a photograph. (These three would later participate in U.S. Operation Vengeance, on April 16, 1943, in which they engage a group of Japanese aircraft, including one carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. He would perish when they down the Mitsubishi G4M bomber carrying him.) Pilots leaving in a jeep. A Pilot stands on the wing of P-38 fighter, besides its canopy.
Footage of NASA Gemini Astronauts conducting a docking operation in space. Narrator begins to name Gemini astronauts and note their achievements. Still images are shown as their names are read, including Lieutenant Colonel USAF Virgil I Grissom, USN Commander John M Young, Lieutenant Colonel USAFJames A McDivitt, Lieutenant Colonel USAF Edward H White, Colonel USAF L Gordon Cooper, Commander USN Charles Conrad, Colonel USAF Frank Borman, Captain USN James A Lovell, Captain USAF Walter M Schirra, Lieutenant Colonel USAF Thomas P Stafford, Neil Armstrong and Major USAF David Scott of Gemini 8, Lieutenant Colonel USAF Thomas P Stafford, Lieutenant Commander Eugene A Cerman, Commander USN John M Young, Lieutenant Colonel USAF MIcheal Collins, Commander USN Charles Gordon, Commander USN Richard Gordon Jr,Captain USN James L Lovell, Colonel USAF Edwin E Aldrin. View of a ceremony in a NASA hangar, with a Gemini capsule in the background. Gemini Astronauts shake hands and greet members of the broader Gemini team on the ground, including various engineers and officials. Two Gemini astronauts at a podium addressing a gathered crowd after a mission. Artist's view of future mission control operations, with advanced looking data terminals and a futuristic space station.
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. signs the Kellogg-Briand Pact in the United States. He signs the pact with U.S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. Men entering a building. Officials seated at a desk. Other stand behind them. The President signs the pact. Other personages include Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, Secretary of the Interior Roy O. West, Secretary of Agriculture William Marion Jardine, Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting, Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes and Senators William E. Borah, Charles Curtis, Frederick Huntington Gillett, Thomas J. Walsh, Hiram Bingham, and Charles A. Swanson.
War crimes trials (Flick Case) in Nuremberg, Germany. Defendants enter courtroom and take their places in prisoner's dock. Defendants include Hermann Terberger, Bernhard Weiss, Konard Kaletsch, Otto Steinbrinck and Freidrich Flick. People in courtroom rise as judges William C Christianson, Frank N. Richman, Charles B Sears, and Richard D Dixon enter. U.S. flag in the background. The judges ask that the prosecutor read the indictment. Prosecutor Thomas E Ervin reads the indictment. Ervin states that workers were subject to inhuman treatment while employed in German factories.
Apollo 204 (Apollo 1) review board documentary film in the United States. Chairman of the Apollo 204 review board Dr. Floyd L. Thompson along with Board members Colonel USAF Charles F. Strang, Mr. E. Barton Geer, Colonel Frank Borman, Mr. George C. White, Jr., Dr. Robert W. Van Dolah, Mr. John J. Williams, Dr. Maxime A. Faget and Counsel Mr. George T Malley, discuss.
Apollo 204 (Apollo 1) review board documentary film in the United States. Chairman of the Apollo 204 review board Dr. Floyd L. Thompson along with Board members Colonel USAF Charles F. Strang, Mr. E. Barton Geer, Colonel Frank Borman, Mr. George C. White, Jr., Dr. Robert W. Van Dolah, Mr. John J. Williams, Dr. Maxime A. Faget, and Counsel Mr. George T Malley. Officials listen as the Chairman speaks. The committee study the reports in a conference hall.