United States Marines play volleyball at United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (GTMO). Distant view, shirtless Marines playing horseshoes. Olive green tents nearby.
A film titled 'Castro, Cuba and Communism: Danger on Our Doorstep'. Black and white smoke arises from amidst an industrial area in Cuba. Cuban political leader Fidel Castro addresses his followers at various gatherings after the 1959 revolution in Cuba that brought him to power. Large crowds gather to welcome and listen to him at the venues. Aerial view of the Cuban coast, monuments in Cuba, luxurious hotels and important landmarks. A fruit seller, farmers cut sugar cane, a truck carries produce. People gamble at a Casino in Cuba before their closure. Docks on the coast of Cuban ports. Leeward Point Field airport at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay. Pilots and officials during a discussion at the airport. U.S. aircraft parked on the airstrip.
Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. Montage of scenes including revolutionary casualties, burning buildings, Castro addressing his followers, revolutionaries carrying weapons, a revolutionary being shot, firemen fighting fire, Women parading with weapons,armed revolutionaries advancing through bush country, and Castro addressing hundreds of thousands of people. View of lighthouse at entrance to Havana harbor.Hotel Nacional de Cuba. The Capitol building. A fruit peddlar on the street in Havana. Workers in sugar cane fields.Views of Havana under the Batista regime, with hotels, and casinos with roulette wheels and other gambling paraphenilia. U.S. Navy ships at he U.S. Navy station at Guantanamo Bay and a large aircraft at the Leeward Point Field, Guantanamo Naval Air Station. Bastista military forces drawing weapons from armory and operating a tank.Pilots climb aboard Federal warplanes and start them up. Cuban police forces at work. Bastista followers in control throughout the country. View of the Presidential Palace surrounded by Batista armed forces. Fulgencio Batista surrounded by followers.The Cuban constitution of is suspended by Bastista and President Carlos Prío Socarrás and his family are seen leaving Havana. Bastista conducts a cabinet meeting. Disenchanted Cubans hold a mock funeral for their Constitution. University students assembling and taking to the streets in protest against the Batista regime. Police break up the demonstrations with force. Injured protesters are treated in hospital. Protesters carry coffin of one who was killed. University protesters march with arms linked and many others also march on the Police headquarters. They carry effigy of Batista. Opposition political leaders are arrested by the Batista police.
American comedian and USO performer, Bob Hope, arrives at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba during World War 2. Bob Hope and several actresses exit the plane. They are greeted by officers. Bob Hope, Vera Vague and Jerry Colonna at mike. Frances Langford gives a singing performance. Navy sailors and Army soldiers seated in chairs watching the show and applauding.
A view of the Blimp Gondola in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Men at the airstrip. The men try to raise the airship by their hands. The blimp is a small non rigid airship used for observing or as a barrage balloon. Blimp at the mooring mast. The blimp aircraft is cabled by mooring.
S-2E flyby past the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) underway in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Two S-2E make approach over water as seen from Wallace L Lind. Helicopters dip sonar far off beam of USS Wallace L Lind. S-2E's in flight over water. S-2E in flight over Wallace L Lind. It flies toward helicopters dipping sonar in the background. S-2E makes approach low over water towards Wallace L Lind and flies with MAD boom extended. S-2E makes approach over water past Wallace L Lind on fly-by. SH-3A in flight high over water. SH-3A dips sonar. S-2E flies low with MAD boom extended. SH-3A dips sonar. Charles P Cecil (DD-835) underway. SH-3A helicopters dip sonar over signal flare marker on water. S-2E fly-by past Wallace L Lind with MAD boom extended. S-2E approaches Wallace L Lind and circles.
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