Sammy Davis Jr. and members of his USO troupe of entertainers, step from a CH-47 helicopter on their arrival at Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii, following their Vietnam tour in 1972. Davis is wearing a sailor's uniform. He is accompanied by singer Sondra "Blinky" Williams. They shake hands and chat with soldiers meeting them on the airfield ramp. "Wild sound" including conversations and music is heard in the background, not synched with the moving images. Sammy Davis Jr. and Blinky Williams pose with some of the soldiers. Davis consults with others. Scene shifts to women members of the USO troupe stepping from the helicopter with help from an Army Military policeman. Images end at TC:01:49. Wild sound continues until TC:04:22, where it is replaced by verbal identification of the reel.
Formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17s is seen in flight with clouds behind. Narrator speaks of salvaging them and similar older aircraft. . B-24 bombers landing at Davis- Monthan Airfield, to be placed in storage for preservation or salvaging. A sign reading, "Bone yard." B-24 taxiing into a Bone Yard filled with other aircraft. Among aircraft seen in the yard are those named: 'Double Trouble;' 'Gentle Annie;' and 'Boobie Trap.' Crews salvaging aircraft wheels and tires. Men removing an airplane wing, with a derrick. Aircraft being de-militarized. Plexi-Glass is replaced with aluminum skin. . Workers steam blast and paint aircraft that will be re-used for non-combat missions.
15 American Sopwith F.1 Camel aircraft, parked in a row. They display solid white triangle insignia of the 148th Aero Squadron. Ground crewmen stand in front of the aircraft holding ropes attached to wheel chocks. Three aircraft taxi and take off. Closeup of a two-place airplane that looks somewhat like a Curtis JN-4 or a Martin Standard J-1 trainer, except that It has a large exhaust pipe atop its inline engine. Aerial view of an airfield through clouds. Several Sopwith F.1 Camel aircraft flying in formation. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Several aircraft flying high overhead during World War I. Scene shifts to soldiers on the ground, at an airfield. One is looking skyward with binoculars. Two others lean over a table with paper stretched out on it. A third soldier stands at a large black cloth-covered box, where only his legs are seen.(This is a camera obscura.) The soldier, with binoculars, joins the two looking over the table and paper, which contains a diagram of concentric rings. One uses a ruler to make marks on the diagram.Air Service man inside the Camera Obscura plots the course of an aircraft. Two Air Service Lieutenants hold and look through old and new Michelin bombsights. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A U.S. Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 pursuit plane is set up with engine running and prop turning, during test of its machine guns at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Cameramen stand on a stand and record the action from behind the right horizontal stabilizer. Its 50 caliber machine guns are seen firing through through the spinning propeller, with which they are synchronized while its 30 caliber guns fire from the wings. The gunfire is directed at a target set within an earthen revetment, on a remote part of the airfield. Bullets are seen tearing through the target and churning the earth behind. Glimpse of the control panel inside the cockpit, where engine instruments read normal for engine-running condition. Flight instruments are inactive and altimeter reads 800 feet ( Wright field elevation). Gloved hand of person test firing the guns is seen on the control stick. Quartering front view of the aircraft during firing including closeup of the twin 50 caliber machine guns firing from atop the engine nacelle. More views of guns firing. In the last scene, photographers are shown hunkered down beneath the aircraft right wing with their cameras. (World War II period).
1st Battalion of 173rd Airborne Brigade on Airmobile Tactical Exercise in Vietnam. Soldiers get on Army truck. Number of Army trucks drive on airstrip. At airfield, soldiers unload from trucks and board HU-1D helicopters. (Vietnam War period).
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