Contingents of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces collaborate to provide relief to towns suffering from disastrous floods in the Netherlands. Relief supplies are trucked to a waiting Italian Air Force Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 trimotor transport aircraft. Italian aviators stand beside the aircraft. The relief supplies are in flat wooden boxes. "Croce-Rossa-Italiana" is written on several of the boxes. Warehouse (hangar) filled with supplies and military personnel preparing them for airlift. Two American fliers consult with another NATO officer about relief airlift mission. A United States Air Force C-119 cargo plane taxis for takeoff. View from open rear cargo door as it lifts off from the runway. U.S. Air Force crewmen push relief supplies out the open rear cargo hatch. Supplies drop by parachute onto town and surroundings. Flooded areas seen in background.
A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Convair CV-240-4 crash landed near Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Dutch officials inspect the crashed aircraft, Paulus Potter (PH-TEI), resting on a field. The Convair CV-240-4 bound for Paris lost altitude just after takeoff from Schiphol Airport. Men inspecting the damaged wing of the Convair CV-240-4. Men search for clues among the wreckage of the aircraft. The plane broke in two. Aircraft seats from the wreckage.
CAP (Civil Air Patrol) cadets from the Netherlands meet members of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team at Crosley Field (1130 Findlay St, Cincinnati, OH 45214) in Cincinnati Ohio. Cadets chat with Reds manager and Hall of Fame second baseman Rogers Hornsby, who explains the purpose of a baseball bat. Cadets watch infield practice, with #15 Rocky Bridges sliding into third base where Grady Hatton is standing. Bridges takes swings in batting cage while cadets watch. Hornsby signs a baseball for a cadet. Closeup of the Reds' logo on their uniform. Cadets gather in dugout; one looks at a bat while #25 Gus Bell talks. Cadets get another autograph.
Military officers from NATO countries jointly consult maps as they plan emergency airlifts of supplies to Netherlands, which is suffering from disastrous floods.
Aerial view of destruction by the hurricane in Holland. A fleet of ships at a port. Streets flooded with water. Plane drops drugs for people. Refugees on muddy roads. A soldier holds a child in his lap. People rescued by helicopter of the U.S. Army. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands meets refugees. She is accompanied by her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. A baby is seen at the refugee center. Queen Juliana looks at a child at a refugee center.
Two U.S. Air Force F-80 shooting star jets fly overhead and then demonstrate bombing on a field in the Netherlands. NATO observers watch from a hillside next to a large windmill. Explosions are set off in the field, creating moderate-sized billowing mushroom clouds. NATO Infantrymen jump up from camouflaged positions and charge. General Alfred Greunther, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, walks with a NATO officer. He boards a helicopter and departs.