The 4th Infantry Division Dragon Mountain Base Camp is renamed Camp Enari in the honor of USA 1st Lieutenant Mark N Enari who was the 1st Fourth Infantry Division soldier to receive the Silver Star posthumously. Soldiers stand at ease on the ground. A few soldiers hold flags. Red Cross girls stand in honor. Dedications address by Lt Gen Stanley R Larsen, CG 1st Field Forces Vietnam and U.S. Army Maj Gen William R Peers, Commander, 4th Infantry Division from a makeshift dais. They move towards the veiled main gate of the camp. Two soldiers stand in attention at either side of the veiled gate. Lt Gen Stanley R Larsen and Maj Gen William R Peers unveil the plaque with the help of the two soldiers. The troops salute. The officers move back to the dais. Senior officers take their places. Soldiers sit on the chairs. Massed troops in formation, color guards. Troops hold webbing and salute. A bespectacled U.S. lieutenant colonel reads citation. (Vietnam War period).
The story of the telescope. View of setting sun and stars at night. Animated picture of various objects formed in the constellation of stars. The stars move around the North Star. The 'Path of the Zodiac' in the sky. Calendar shows various months and dates of a year. Clock shows time of a day. In a 15th century Chinese observatory, a man spins a giant globe that serves as a map of the sky. An astrolobe instrument with which astronomers measure the angles of stars and its positions. A sundial used to tell time of day. Picture of Galileo looking through the telescope. Animated picture of planets around the sun.
Narrated in German. President Harry S Truman reads Japanese surrender announcement. Woman holds a poster that reads 'Victory Japan Surrenders'. News correspondents run in White House corridors. People celebrate VJ Day or Victory over Japan Day on streets in Chicago, San Francisco, Frisco Chinatown, and in New York City Times Square. Crowd gathers near Hotel Astor. Celebration in London with the King and Queen in horse drawn carriage leaves Buckingham Palace. Opening of British Parliament, shows Lord Edward Halifax, Lord John Allsebrook Simon, U.S. Ambassador John C Winant, Admiral Harold R Stark and a representative from Saudi Arabia arrive in a car. Crowd runs towards Buckingham Palace. The Royal family waves to the crowd from Palace balcony.
Students outside a one room school house in Old Dobbin, Columbia, Maryland on a snowy day. A small open-bed truck pulls up and school children climb into the back. Children keep trying to climb in even as the truck pulls away. Some children throw snow balls in a snow ball fight. A horse-drawn sleigh pulls up to the school to carry more children after the school day is over. Students run and board the sleigh. Children play in the school yard. Some sled while others climb a tree and jump-off the branches as the branches bend down toward the ground.
Detachment Commander discuss with another official. A map showing position of a river. Animation shows specifications for day and night landing of light aircraft in water LZ (Landing Zone). Required depth and wind speeds blowing around in a water LZ are animated. Various stations and RCL (Reception Committee Leader) are marked on a water LZ in animation. A green line indicates night signal formed of light while a green patch marks day signal from a signal bomb in the animation. Security party checks the LZ. They board four boats and leave for LZ. An aircraft approaches LZ. A signal is given to land. It lands, turns to right and reach a boat forming RCL. It then takes off.
Main battery Battleship fire is directed against Japanese fortified towns of Shuri and Naha in Okinawa, Japan. They are pounded by 14 inch and 16 inch naval guns for two days. U.S. troops find a mass of rubble when they enter the city of Shuri. The city of Naha is pounded by U.S. naval heavy guns for 40 days and nights. Low level aerial views of destroyed buildings in Naha. U.S. assault on the Naha airfield includes fire from U.S. navy rocket and mortar craft, seen in operation. Views of U.S. ground forces maneuvering to capture the Naha airfield, using grenades, and flamethrowers. (World War II period).
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