Scenes of Nichols Field, the Philippines, in 1941, before World War 2, in the Pacific. An airman plays with a budgerigar parakeet that sits on the shoulder and walks on his hands and arms. Group of airmen conversing in front of Squadron building. A truck, with Nichols Field painted on its side, arrives. A Bolo bomber (B-18), is seen in background. An airman drinks a coke and dons a checkered white cap with 17th written on it. A seversky P-35 pursuit airplane, originally slated for delivery to Sweden (note fuselage insignia), lands on the airfield.
A film covers chemical warfare defense training received by U.S. airmen at George Air Force Base in California, United States. A ground crew responds to a simulated chemical attack. The crew around a U.S. Air Force F-4D fighter-bomber aircraft parked at an airfield. The crew dons gas masks, hoods and gloves. A crew member administers an injection to an airman who was the casualty of the attack. Crew members help him to get up.
Weapons and equipment used by the U.S. Army during the Korean War. U.S. Air Force aircraft in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. troops load bombs and rockets on F4U Corsair aircraft at an airfield. Rockets mounted under the wings of the aircraft. An aircraft takes off and fires rockets at lines of communication on ground.. Rocket launchers fired by U.S. troops. U.S. Marines watch as barrage of rockets is launched. The troops fire carbines and machine guns at enemy on a battlefield. Marines board a Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw helicopter. The helicopter takes off from a field. It drops supply crates on the field.
A training film on medical defense against biological warfare in the United States. Aircraft in flight leave vapor trails. Military purposes for using biological warfare shows U.S. Navy ships in a harbor in the United States. A U.S. military training center. An isolated airfield with aircraft on a flight line. U.S. soldiers rush into a pillbox. Affected soldiers enter a hospital. The soldiers at the banks of a lake. Biological warfare agents can be selected from the group of organisms like bacteria, viruses and fungi.
Survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) which was sunk by enemy action during World War II arrive at Guam in the Mariana Islands. The survivors of USS Indianapolis as they disembark from a U.S. Army Air Force C-54 Skymaster airplane and pose before it at an airfield. The survivors are assisted into waiting ambulances. A U.S. Navy nurse and an officer converse.
Lieutenant General Jacob Devers, Commander of U.S. Army Forces in Europe and Major General Ira Eaker, Commander of U.S. 8th Air Force accompany a British civilian official who meets and talks with crews of B-17 bombers. (U.S.Captain Robert K. Morgan, pilot of the "Memphis Belle" is seen with the visiting party.) General Devers and the British official talk to each other. Air and ground crew of the B-17 "Delta Rebel" are inspected. A British lady is seen speaking with a B-17 crew member. (A 1938 Packard automobile is seen parked near the B-17s.) A C-45 Expeditor aircraft taxis on the airfield. Officers around the airplane.
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