Aftermath of a C-124 plane crash in Japan that killed 129 United States servicemen. Policemen carry dead bodies on litter. People throng around the plane wreckage as rescue operations continue. Dead bodies covered with clothes lined up in a field.
Aftermath of a fierce tornado swept across United States causing massive destruction. Injured carried away on a litter. A split tree and pile of wreckage result from tornado. Destructed automobiles.
British Royal Air Force AVRO Vulcan jet bomber in flight alone and then in formation with several AVRO 707s. The Vulcan delta wing design allow its 4 engines and fuel to be housed completely in the wing, leaving the fuselage free for bomb-carrying. The smaller AVRO 707s are low speed prototypes. One, the model 707C has been designed as a trainer aircraft.
At Tamgmere Air Station, Chichester, England, Squadron Leader, Neville Duke, Britains famous test pilot gets into the cockpit of his Hawker Hunter jet fighter (WB 188) and takes off in attempt to set a new world air speed record .
U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits a U.S. air base at Kimpo in Korea. Nixon with United States Air Force officers. A sign in the background reads: "4th Fighter Intercepter Group Combat Operations". He climbs into the cockpit of and F-86 aircraft. He shakes hand with some air force officers. Some cameramen with their recording cameras. The officers salute. Nixon meets some flyers from the United Kingdom, as well, standing in front of their Canberra twin jet aircraft. Two squadrons of U.S. Air Force jet fighters fly over in formation.
The Korean War ends with the signing of an armistice by the United Nations and Communist negotiators in Panmunjom, Korea. Neutral observers arrive to oversee the armistice. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower announces the truce to the Americans in Washington DC. He counsels against over-optimism in the face of the major problems that remain.
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