Lieutenant General George S Patton leaves headquarters in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II. He climbs into his custom-armored M3A1White Scout Car, equipped with two machine guns, and accompanied by staff, drives off. General Patton standing along roadside waving as his troops drive past in vehicles. General Patton, Major General Geoffrey Keyes and Colonel Campanole seated in jeep in one of the cities and look at maps while Maj Gen. Lucian Truscott stands next to the jeep. The generals ride through the streets and enter a building.
U.S. flag is raised in Newark, Delaware. M-48 Patton tank climbs an embankment and a three foot concrete wall. M-48 maneuvers through a set of staggered pylons. M-48 drives through a water hazard. M-48 negotiates slope of a ditch. M-48 bowls over a row of four telephone poles.
M-48 Patton tank displayed in Newark Delaware. Revolving turret of an M-48 Patton tank. Crowded stands. The tank turns on its own tracks. An object burns. M-48 crashes through a wooden shed and drives past the stands carrying most of the wreckage.
Group of M-48 Patton tanks move into formation in Newark, Delaware. M-48 tanks make a mass advance upon the grandstands .
An H-13D helicopter in flight in Newark, Delaware. M-48 Patton tank starts demonstration. H-13D hovers low whipping up great dust clouds. H-13D hovers by M-48. M-48 moves into ditch.
Firing of a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico. An XP-84 jet aircraft on a test flight in California. Scenes of devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An atomic bomb test conducted in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Large smoke cloud rises. Americans expressing disgust with war and confidence in ability to protect against it in future. Newspaper headline about Armistice ending World War I on November 11, 1918. Victory parade in New York City. Close up view of Adolf Hitler as he speaks forcefully to a German audience. V2 rocket being launched in Germany. German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket plane in flight. Map depicting uranium deposits world wide. An XB-36 bomber in flight with landing gear extended. A huge formation of various warplanes in flight, high overhead. A wartime tank assembly plant. American army troops on parade. A United Nations meeting in session. Peaceful scenes of American soldiers in Hawaii before World War II in the Pacific. Hawaiian Hula dancers. Japanese carrier-based Aichi D3A1 dive bomber in flight during attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Bombed U.S. warships and facilities in Pearl Harbor. American Army officer and civilian discussing wisdom of maintaing large standing army. Army recruits are seen in the U.S. Army Universal Military Training Experimental Unit at Fort Knox, in 1947. They are seen in quarters, studying; taking part in sports (baseball); and attending religious services in a base chapel. Several trainees in a field tent, working with numerous tape decks in some kind of military communications activity.
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