A sign reads 'Road closed'. View of a U.S. Air Force B-47 jet like the one that experienced a bomb shackle malfunction, causing the release of an atomic bomb, which fell to the ground in Florence South Carolina. Bomb was not assembled for firing so atomic blast occurred. View of wrecked house of Walter Greg, struck by the bomb. A deep 35 foot pit is formed on the land. Men inspect the damage. Air Force keeps a vigil reviewing the skies and ground for any evidence in the case.
A sign reads 'Escape Training Tank'. U.S. Navy's Submarine school in Pearl Harbor teaches underwater escape techniques. Trainees control their breadth before entering the compartment. Trainees leave a flooded compartment in a submarine fifty feet below the surface.
In Los Angeles the first electronically controlled all-automatic factory with a production line of machine tools doing precision air craft work under control of an electronic computer. View of computer controlled production automation system developed by Hughes Aircraft Company. A label reads "Hughes Production'. A woman is seen working on a keyboard. A man is seen encoding instructions to the computer and threading a punch tape onto a tape reader of the early computer system.
U.S. Navy's new aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62) starts her first sea trial down New York's East River. Tugboat workers help the aircraft carrier out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and down the river. The carrier clears the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges by tilting its hinged mast.
WAACS begin their first day with the corps during World War 2. Women exit a clothing warehouse carrying bags of clothing. Women officers of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs), seen wearing uniforms. Beds in a row in a barracks during inspection. Two women officers shaking hands. Women stand in line to go into the mess hall. Women officers eating and drinking in the mess hall, including African American women who eat at racially segregated tables. Women stand at attention outside in rows. They march together in line.
United States Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and other dignitaries inspect first shipment of 24-inch pipe to be used for the oil pipeline directly from the Texas Oil Company to Central Illinois.
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