Combat cargo airdrop is prepared at Ashiya Air Force Base in Japan during the Korean War. A supply dump area shows combat cargo being prepared for loading into trucks. Loading operations show a fork lift, tractor and trailers, small trucks and personnel, a conveyor belt system and the working procedure in the dump area.
People being processed by the police in Berlin, Germany. Vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate: A policeman carries a suitcase followed by a few old people. People being processed by the police so that they can return to their homes. A Red Cross nurse talks to women seated with others on a park bench. People, including a nun, board a bus. Demonstrators carry a huge wooden cross and set it up in front of a Russian tank memorial.
East German civilians receive free food in Germany. Cargo ship, the American Inventor, at a pier in Hamburg with surplus food from America for starving East Germany. A pallet of food cartons is hoisted out of a hold. An official hands a box to a workman. Thousands of people wait for their turn to get food in queues in West Berlin, ignoring threats of reprisal from the communist government of East Berlin. In West Berlin, volunteers get food packages ready including lard, flour, condensed milk, beans, and peas. Women pick up their allotments and put them in shopping bags. A crowd milling around in front of buildings, with many camping overnight and waiting their turn to get food having come from as far away as the border with Czechoslovakia and the Baltic Coast.
Berlin civilians get food in Berlin, Germany. Crowds wait for opportunity to get surplus oranges and cherries from the U.S. A woman shows her identification card. Oranges and cherries are doled out. Mayor Willy Kressmen weighing the cherries. A man gives a child a drink from a paper cup.
A revolt in Berlin, Germany during the Cold War. People in the vicinity of a building decorated with a poster of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Signs in English, Russian and German: "You Are Now Leaving American Sector." A hole in a glass window. Demonstrators carry a section of a railing. People running in streets and standing atop buildings. Crowds in front of the Brandenburg Gate. A man hauls down the Soviet flag from the gate. A man throws uniforms out of a window. A man holds a Russian military raincoat. A man holds cutouts of German and Soviet flags. Others grab it out of his hand. An information booth on fire. Crowds in a street. A policeman leading suspects through a crowd. Several men follow and strike a suspect. Two policemen lead another man through the crowd. Others follow and pummel the victim. A giant crowd. A fire blazing up in the background.
Navigator speaking on intercom aboard a U.S. Air Force WB-29A aircraft of the 53rd Strategic Weather Reconnaissance Squadron ( Hurricane Hunters) airplane in flight. Pilot and copilot seen in cockpit as the plane encounters turbulence. Crew member looking at shielded radar screen. Momentary glimpse of a PB4Y2 aircraft flying amongst storm clouds. WB-29A crew members at duty stations monitoring meteorological conditions. View of cockpit again. Men and women at the Joint hurricane warning service, in Miami, Florida, copy reports being received from the WB-29A.
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