Cold War aggression mounts in Europe. Two U.S. Thunderjets downed by Soviet-made MIG aircraft, flown by Czech pilots, 15 miles inside the American zone in Germany. Remains of the two Republic F-84 aircraft. Soldiers examine the wreckage. Soldier points to the damage and bullet holes on the remains. Americans Lt. Donald Smith and Lt. Warren Brown seated at a table. Lt. Smith narrates the incident of unprovoked attack. The Lieutenants demonstrate using model aircraft.
Scenes of snow hills in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. A sled slopes down on snow. Spectators click photos. The sled at Dead Man's curve. They meet with an accident. U.S. team in sled slopes down the snowy terrain. Spectators look on.
After ten years German prisoners of war return to their home land from Russian captivity. A vehicle enters into Germany. Men, women and children sitting in the bus. They wave. Children meet their fathers for the first time. Two brothers meet and their heart-warming reunion erases any bitterness.
NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo" in Germany. Marshal Alphonse Juin of France, Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, arrives by car and is greeted by Lieutenant General William M. Hoge, Commander of the United States 7th Army . (General Hoge is also the Maneuver Director.) NATO military observers accompany Marshal Juin. They all walk through the woods to an encampment. There they examine a map depicting the exercise region. They pause outside a tent and then proceed further through the woods. a wooded area. Several They walk through the woods to an encampment. There they examine a map depicting exercise information. They pause outside a tent and then proceed further through the woods.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur Radford, inspects U.S. installations in Germany. He is greeted by officers as he disembarks from an aircraft. He shakes hands with officers. He tours the Frankfurt Air Base and Rhine River Patrol. Several cars parked at the airport. He inspects a machine part. Other officers stand in the background. He bends down and observes in detail. He looks at a document. The officers salute him. He shakes hands with the officers.
Crash landing of an airplane in Germany. The crashed airplane in a field. Men stand near the airplane and look at it.