Opening scene shows men in the streets of Cairo, Egypt. Remnants of barriers lay across the road. Black smoke rises from a building fire in the background. Camera focuses on a portrait of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, atop a tall street pole. Street filled with men milling about. Men running beside railroad tracks, as smoke appears to be in the background. A crowd of men watch as one of them pulls down a banner displayed on a building. Back at the railroad site, several men watch a military armored car. Men assist another who is seen lying on a sidewalk. A young boy walks past as the men start to pull the victim up from the sidewalk. A group of men carrying the victim along a street. View from flat roof overlooking street below where a patrolling jeep carrying soldiers passes below. Charred material and destroyed steel barriers obstruct a street. Pedestrians walk about on sidewalks and street in background. Closeup of more charred and steel obstacles on a street. Men on the street in the background. Smoke rising from a burning obstacle in a street. Boulders and rubble blocking a street. View along a street completely covered along its length in rocks and slabs of concrete. Pedestrians walk along the sides of the road. Men standing in rubble at a street corner. Views of more charred makeshift road barriers. An armored car parked in center of the city. A bicyclist rides past and pedestrians ignore it. A White van speeds along the road (possibly an ambulance). Glimpse of a narrow street or alleyway, lined with shops with awnings.
Several people look down from a fortress-like wall. A tank rolls into the city. People run in the streets. Some soldiers of the junta, dressed in leather jackets, are seen in a relaxed group. Standing with them is Colonel Armas. Some of the soldiers discuss their rifles. Some people looking down from the top of a building.
A banner announces elections for President of Quatemala, on October 10th, 1954. A poster showing the sole candidate, Carlos Castillo Armas. Voters lined up at a polling place. Views of the voters registering and voting. Carlos Castillo Armas and his wife, Odilia de Castillo Armas, are seen among people at the polling place. People crowd around them as they register and vote. An official shaking hands with Armas, as his wife stands nearby and people gather around them. Armas conversing with offiicials and military officers. A woman with an official, shakes hands with Mrs. Armas. Closeups of the Armas couple surrounded by well-wishers.
Camera focuses on a 1954 Chevrolet ambulance as it approaches, driving across an airfield in Guatemala. It pulls up next to a Guatemalan Air Force DC-3 aircraft, where it is met by several Guatemalan soldiers. One of them converses with the pilot, who is wearing a flight suit. The camera shifts focus, momentarily, to a North American T-6 aircraft taxiing onto the runway for takeoff. Then it focuses, again, on the soldiers , ambulance, and parked DC-3 aircraft. As the pilot approaches the ambulance, several soldiers remove a patient on a litter and carry it to the door of the aircraft, where they place it on the ground and assist the patient to climb a few steps up and into the aircraft cabin. He holds up his right leg, which is bandaged, as he is helped by a crew member. Scene shifts to view from the aircraft cockpit as it departs from the airfield and proceeds over rugged hilly countryside. Aerial view of buildings in a town on the water. More views of fairly barren land below. View is interrupted and then resumes with more aerial views from the aircraft cockpit. Pilots are seen in the cockpit. The remainder of the film shows aerial views of Guatemala City (probably the destination of this air evacuation mission).
Sign in Vietnamese tree outside compound. Large tree with house in it. A ladder attached to trunk of tree, leading up to the treehouse.
U.S. soldier interrogate native through native interpreter. American soldiers briefed in front of a map. Soldiers leave after briefing. American soldier fires .45 car pistol into the air. Natives step up to table and questioned by another native. Native marks the document. Natives search a prisoner outside a big hut. They pull a Vietnamese man out of the hut and forcibly bind his hands behind his back.
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