Statue of Liberty. Picnic for union workers. Sign reads, "Amalgamated Shirts and Pajama Workers of America, Local 343 Picnic" College graduation ceremony. Americans voting. Signs read, "Polling Place. Stalls open 6 A.M. - Close P.M." and "No Loitering or Electioneering Between This Point and The Poll." A woman enters a curtained voting stall to vote. Aerial view of early U.S. interstate highway exchange. Suburban neighborhood development in California, with elevated view of houses in suburbs. A pastor performs a wedding ceremony in a church. An American family picnics on bank of a stream. Students at a U.S. college campus. Parishioners coming out of a church. U.S. Congress in session. U.S. Capitol building exterior with tree branches. In contrast: Military parade in Communist East Germany, with tanks. A sign reads: "Peace, Prosperity, good fortune" (in German). Civil unrest in various countries, possibly Hungarian Uprising or Hungarian revolution in Hungary in 1956: People during a riot or demonstration and a city bus is seen crashing through trees and into a building on a busy downtown city street; Street riots; protest gatherings. Contrasting scenes: Peaceful U.S. metropolitan street scene; Farmer plowing field with tractor; Cowboys herding steers; driver in tanker truck with "Cyclone Rocket" logo on the door, welders at a shipyard.
Flag of United States. United States men and women in uniform representing every element of U.S. military establishment. U.S. Army soldiers march on a grass parade field. Aerial view of a base camp. U.S. armored unit of tanks and self-propelled artillery, maneuvering and firing their guns. U.S. Army paratroops seen hooking up static lines and jumping from C-130 aircraft. U.S Army helicopters deliver soldiers and transport heavy vehicles and artillery pieces. (Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave delivering the jeep and the artillery piece.) Various scenes of U.S. Army heavy artillery being fired, including a self propelled howitzer.
Dramatization shows fleet of United States Navy ships underway. Douglas F4D Skyray take off from aircraft carrier. The USS Hammerberg (DE-1015) seen underway. U.S. Navy ships firing missiles. A polaris submarine. A missile being fired from a submerged Polaris submarine. Depth charges exploding behind an American destroyer. U.S. Marines board helicopters on ship deck. Helicopter lands on open field and Marines exit combat ready. A flight of Marine F-86 aircraft attack target during Korean war. Marines in amphibious assault on a beach. U.S. Marine tanks and infantry in action.
Documentary. Numerous U.S. Air Force aircraft in operation, including: F-100s; B-47s; B-52s; F-106s; and F-105s. U.S Air Force alert crews run from barracks in response to Klaxon horn signal. They board their aircraft in snow. An F-100 makes takeoff with rocket boost. F-100s fire rockets. Wide variety of rockets fired from USAF aircraft. A Saturn rocket launch.
A Trans Atlantic flying boat aircraft in test flight for ocean hops at Port Washington, New York. The Yankee clipper takes off in preparation for ocean service. Crew members board the aircraft. The pilot operates controls seated in the cockpit. The seaplane takes off from the water surface. The aircraft flies over the New York city with The Imperial State building in the background.
The Nazis seize Czechoslovakian territory in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Scenes of the Czechoslovakian Army marching in formation out of Prague, as they withdraw from Prague under orders from President Emil Hácha, facing threat of German Luftwaffe aircraft attacks. President of Czechoslovakia, Emil Hácha, signs a document. Czech military vehicle tows artillery as they withdraw. A group of Czech soldiers assist in pulling it with rope during the withdrawal.
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