A typhoon ravages Japan. Destruction and homes in the flooded areas in the wake of the typhoon (Super Typhoon Tess). Typhoon Tess struck the Central Honshū Island in Japan. People wade through flood with their belongings. A man rows a boat in the flood. Men row a wooden board.
Demonstration of a safety steering wheel designed by French engineers in France. French engineers show a newly devised steering wheel designed to eliminate the common cause of injuries due to abrupt stops. A test driver risks his ribs in full speed crashes. He comes out upright and undamaged.
Trucking by rail in Illinois. Trucks with a big semi-trailer pass through an American highway. Inco Beverage Co. semi-trailer truck on the road. Rails beside a highway in Illinois. A General Motors (GM) flatcar moving in track. Newly devised flatcars and loading methods are shown. A trailer kingpin is lowered into a slot extension. It is hooked over a towing plate. A man locks the trailer kingpin into place. The plate is screwed in position. Then the trailers are transported.
Yankees and Dodgers meet on the 50th anniversary of baseball's World Series. Fan holds up official series program. Fans pour into Yankee Stadium; man in Yankees jacket takes tickets. Managers Casey Stengel of the Yankees and Chuck Dressen of the Dodgers shake hands in dugout before the game. Baseball commissioner Ford Frick chats with Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley in the stands. Starting pitchers Allie Reynolds for the Yankees and Carl Erskine for the Dodgers pose for cameras. Yankees' Hank Bauer seen in close up before hitting run-scoring triple. Yankees' Billy Martin seen in closeup before hitting three-run triple. (Note: Martin would be named the MVP of this series.) Dodger fans look disgruntled until Dodgers come back to tie game with a home run by George Shuba and two-run single by Carl Furillo. But Yankees' Joe Collins put his team back in front with a home run.
Germany in ruins after the end of World War II. Aerial views of skeleton buildings and rubble in Leipzig. Industrial Magdeburg is destroyed by dive bombers of the U.S. Tactical Air Forces. The huge Krupp tank factory is destroyed. Partially finished tanks on an assembly line. The stone swastika is replaced with stars and stripes. U.S. troops ( Yank troops ) blast a surrounding stone swastika. A huge rallying stadium serves as a parade ground for the yank troops.
U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower cites G.I. Joe in the United States. General Eisenhower credits Allied Generals with genius, but states that the real hero of the war is G.I. Joe Albergo and his buddies in other armed services of the Allies in World War II.
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