Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump in 1946. Reconnaissance aircraft take off for a search and rescue mission in Antarctica. Crew members of a PMB-5 Mariner aircraft fly above the Antarctica in search of a crashed airplane crew - the crew of the Mariner George 1. The missing crew is located on Thurston Island after 13 days by Commander Howell, supplies are dropped for the survivors and they are rescued finally. Aerial scenes of the crew discovered and the names of the dead painted by the survivors on the plane wing. Three did not survive: Max Lopez, Bud Hendersin, Fred Williams. Captain George Dufek welcomes the survivors. Survivors Captain Caldwell, Moore, Robbins, Kearns, McCarthy, eating their food (not including seriously injured "Frenchie" LeBlanc). Coastguard icebreaker arrives. Supplies and equipment are loaded back on the ships. Admiral Richard E. Byrd is seen. Animated map shows the statistics of Operation High Jump.
Men at a fuel station in Southville (Shelby County), Kentucky. A car stops by the station. Man refuels the car. A small boy looks out of the car's window. Exteriors of the Shelby Court building. School bus stops near a store. Children get off the bus. They eat ice cream.
Farming activities in Southville (Shelby County), Kentucky. Corn crop and tobacco plantation. Natives take hayrides across countryside. Woman plays accordion while an old man plays violin. Natives gather in a shopping store and chat.
Edgar Skelton and his daughter leave their home in Southville Kentucky and greet neighbors with a tip of the hat in front of the Edgar Skelton general store. Residents on their way to church cross a primitive rope suspension bridge. External view of church in Southville. Parishioners shake hands with the pastor as they enter church. Diesel electric locomotive number 6711 pulls into Southville railroad train station. Ed Skelton receives stack of newspapers from the train and puts them into the bed of his pickup truck. View of pickup truck leaving Southville train station. People gathered in front of the Edgar Skelton general store in Southville receive the Sunday newspaper. Two women look at a fashion advertisement in the newspaper. Two boys look at comic cartoons in the newspaper. Ed Skelton and his daughter return to their house. Ed Skelton and daughter pray at the dinner table before eating. Men in Southville inside the Edgar Skelton general store. Ed Skelton stokes the fire in the pot belly stove. Ed Skelton sells canned food to a man standing at the general store counter.
View of television shows actor Jack Webb. Next scene shows a car as it is driven down an alley at high speed. Car stops quickly behind an old house or apartment building. The driver exits the car and runs up steps to second floor. In next scene, a young woman leaves a different house and gets into her Ford convertible car. She drives out of gate and gets on the highway.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police in the United States during various disasters. Firefighters at a major conflagration. MPs in a military ambulance flying a red cross flag, rushing toward the site. Smoke seen rising in the background. A sign on a building: 'US Army Disaster Relief Headquarters'. An MP stands at the entrance and directs people seeking help. A river flooding an industrial area, cutting off trains and covering factories. A residential area inundated by flood waters. Military Police and local police in a boat patrolling the flooded area. Military Police in an amphibious jeep evacuating a boy and his dog from the flooded area. MPs with the boy and his dog driving out of the flooded area.
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