United States President Harry Truman returns Washington DC after cutting his vacation short. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath and other dignitaries welcome President Truman at the Washington National Airport. The White House assistants and officials arrive to meet President Truman. Chiefs of Army, Navy and Air Force along with Chief of Staff Omar Bradley arrive at the White House summoned by the President for a conference.
Philadelphia High School Football Championship Match between West Catholic High School Gridders and Bok Vocation Tech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Players compete hard, displaying runs and pass tactics. Excited spectators cheer for their respective teams. A group of high school girls cheering after a score, while a boy who is fan of the other team sits looking nervous and worried. West Catholic wins the game by 48-0.
Children anticipate Christmas in the United States. Children play outside their snow-covered houses and push home-made sleds. A child sleeps in his bed and dreams of a toy stuffed animal, toy trucks, and toys knocked over by billiard balls. Close-up of Lionel toy train as it passes. Young girls press their noses against a shop window and watch toys and gift items in the toy shop. Toys, including some early animatronics include angels carrying gifts, a dog sled, skiers on a slope, a monkey driving a wagon, and an early Pustefix bubble mechanical bear. Children receive gifts from Santa Claus is shown on an ornate thrown writing a list using a quill pen as a young girl climbs steep steps to visit him.
A college football game between military service academices U.S. Army (Westpoint) and U.S. Navy (Annapolis) at a stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A large crowd of spectators arrives at the stadium to watch the game. Icon players of Navy and Army display tactics during the match. The spectators and support staff cheer for their respective teams. The Army players during the second half. Army wins by 11 to 8 breaking Navy's record of victories in last five games.
Children with their parents shopping before Christmas in various countries such as Germany, Canada and United States. An animatronic Santa Claus model moving. Children watch from windows of a toy shop. Mechanical toys moving in a winter play set. Children watch Christmas toys moving from a conveyer behind a window. A boy hugs a stuffed animal. A bulldog doll with moving eyes and mouth. Various new toys, puppets and decorating items on display in Germany. Children with their parents sitting in a toy train watch various toys and decorations. A child turns on a vintage toy car. Parents with their children move around Christmas trees in Canada. A boy holds on to his father while riding a motor sleigh. Christmas decorations in streets and houses. Crowd of shoppers in department store buys gifts for their neighbors and friends. Woman carrying shopping bags. A Christmas Merry-go-Round carousel. The Christmas tree is lighted at Rockefeller Center. A figure skater dressed as Santa Claus skates in the rink at Rockefeller Center (45 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10111, United States) in New York City.
Film beginning shows a line of Indian women carrying large wooden bowls on their heads as they walk past a line of Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bombers parked on an airfield ramp in India during World War 2. A B-29 bomber descends and lands on the airfield runway. Scene shifts to the Boeing factory at Wichita, Kansas, where most of the aircraft were manufactured during World War 2. (They were also made by Bell Aircraft Company in Atlanta (Marietta), Georgia, and by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Omaha, Nebraska.) In the Wichita plant, a large room filled with B-29s under construction is seen. A line of women uses hand power tools to finish aircraft parts. A large section of a B-29, including landing gear and tires, moves by overhead crane to be mated with another section in an assembly operation. Men manually push a landing gear with tires installed, along a floor. Workers walk along underneath an assembled B-29 as it is towed out of the factory. Tail view of a B-29 with engines running. View of man working on a B-29 tail rudder. Wing flaps being lowered in function check. Scene shifts, again, this time to China, where a line of B-29s is seen on a ramp at a secret base. A jeep drives under the left wing of a parked B-29, guarded by an armed Chinese sentry. Chinese laborers work with hand tools to make a ditch to drain water from the airfield ramp. Chinese workers unload and roll 55 gallon drums of gasoline for aircraft fueling. A Chinese name (Ding How!)painted on the fuselage of a B-29. Major General Claire Chennault shakes hands with some of a B-29s crew as they prepare to depart on a bombing mission. A Chinese soldier gives the crew a "thumbs up" sendoff. The B-29 takes off on the mission. a group of airmen sit atop a B-29 to watch the takeoffs. Camera focuses on another takeoff and then shows a B-29 aloft, glinting in sunlight and then cruising above clouds. Glimpse of B-29 flying over snow covered mountains (possibly in Japan).
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