Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler awards the Legion of Merit to Inspector General of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany General Ulrich de Maizière at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. A U.S. Navy band plays. U.S. Color and Honor Guards lined up. General Maiziere arrives with his wife and is greeted by General Wheeler. The Generals walk to a review stand, salute and receive a 19 gun salute. Color Guards march in front of the review stand. General Wheeler presents the Legion of Merit to General de Maiziere. The Generals and their wives proceed back to the Pentagon.
U.S. President Richard Nixon visits the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. President Nixon and U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird followed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler in Pentagon corridor. President Nixon, Secretary Laird and General Wheeler converse in Pentagon garage. President Nixon gets in a car and departs.
Dedication of the Marshall Corridor at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. U.S. President Gerald Ford tours the Hall of Heroes. U.S. officials and a crowd at the Pentagon. President Ford speaks to U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Fredrick Carlton Weyand at the ceremony. President Ford passes through the crowd.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson visits the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara wait in the basement of the Pentagon for the arrival of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. President Johnson arrives in a car and is greeted by Gilpatric and McNamara. People look on. President Johnson and dignitaries walk through a corridor.
Exhibit about African American military service personnel at Pentagon in Virginia, United States. American lawyer John P. Davis, publisher of the magazine 'Our World'. Poster of jet fighter aircraft pilots. White and African American servicemen, servicewomen, and officers gather in the building. They look at an exhibition of photographs which pictures the activities and contributions of African Americans in the armed forces of the United States military. Mr John P. Davis shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. Mr Davis, Mr Johnson and an African American official at the ceremony as they cut the ribbon which opens the exhibition.
Film starts with view of the U.S. military headquarters Pentagon building in Virginia, as seen from Columbia Island, across the lagoon, in World War 2.. Closeup of the building. Inside, Lieutenant General Brehon Burke Somervell , Commander of the Army Service Forces (ASF) is seen presiding over a staff meeting that includes seven Major Generals, who head the ASF technical services. Flag of the Quartermaster Corps seen in closeup. Officers of that organization are seen meeting. Scene shifts to a warehouse where military supplies are being moved on trailers pulled by small tractors. Carts filled with equipment are seen. Men prepare some for transport to America's allies overseas. Men fill packages with articles of clothing. A sign reads: "Maj. Gen. Reybold, Chief of Engineers." Engineers officers at a conference table rise as their Commander, General Reybold, enters. He sits and they begin their meeting. Closeup of staff officers in the meeting. Officers walk through a section of the Army Map Service, where cartographers, draftsmen and others are busy at tables creating maps. One of them is seen fitting several aerial photographs together to form a detailed map. A cartographer at the mapping service is seen annotating a map of the Marseille area of France. Views of high speed offset presses printing large scale maps for the military. A sign identifies the office of the Chief of Ordnance. Staff officers of that office are seen at work. Closeup of small arms being placed in a shipping box. An open yard filled with M24 Chaffee light tanks. A vast yard at a railroad siding, containing countless tanks on one side and building materials on the other. Sign inside the Pentagon at office of Major General H.C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer. Closeup of General Ingles at his desk. Members of his staff consult with him. Sign at office of the Chief, Chemical Warfare Service. Major General William N. Porter, the Chief, looks over maps with several staff. Troops training under gas attack and smoke screen conditions. The entrance to the office of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army. Inside, Major General Norman Thomas Kirk , Surgeon General, confers with a Colonel. Maps of areas where disease poses a threat to U.S. military forces. Office of Major General C.P. Gross, Army Chief of Transportation. Inside He holds a meeting with members of his staff. View of a pier where military supplies are being offloaded by means of derricks.
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