Protests in the Balkan Peninsula as Allied troops withdraw from Trieste and it is handed over to Italy. Yugoslavians vow to never give up Trieste as United States and British troops prepare to withdraw. View of Trieste's port, streets and a soldier guarding from behind a barbed wire fence. Sign says "Trsta ne damo". Italians in Zone A of the Free Territory of Trieste. Man in car speaking to a border control officer crossing to Italy. Italian flag and writing "W Trieste Italiana". Italians see the raising of their flag for the first time since 1945. Italians with Italian flags and placards saying "Viva Trieste" and "L'Istria e Italiana" ("Istria (region) is Italian" in English). Mobs raising their fists in front of the United States embassy in Belgrade, storming the embassy following defiant speeches in which Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia threatens to invade Trieste. Yugoslav rioters break into a fight in front of the American embassy. Yugoslav policemen marshal unruly rioters in the street.
U.S. Coast Guard works to rescue victims of a flood in Greenwood, Mississippi. Men lower Coast Guard dory boats from a railroad car. Spectators watch as the men put dory boats in the water. Prisoners in striped clothes stack sandbags to control overflowing water of Yazoo and Tallahatchie Rivers. Submerged houses and trees. Residents flee in boats. Coast Guard officers aboard a boat in water. U.S. Army and Red Cross Fokker F.VII a aircraft in flight over the flood area. Aerial views of the flooded region.
A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of foreign animal diseases. Animated map of the United States of America depicts the New England region of the U.S. affected with foot and mouth disease of animals during year 1870 and Mexico and Canada affected by epizootics in 1946 and 1952 respectively. A technician stores animal foot and mouth disease virus in a laboratory freezer.
Crew member of U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in England during World War II. Officers at maps and a blackboard in a briefing room at an airfield. An officer points out formations with pilot's names on a chalk board. A mission briefing officer points to targets in the German-Netherlands border region. Aircrew officers take notes.
Women working at teletype machines in the Joint Hurricane Warning Service in Miami, Florida. Animated map shows communications links to sites in the Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast and Caribbean regions. A peaceful scene on the water in a Caribbean harbor. Weather instruments atop a building. Red Cross workers engaged in emergency communications.
U.S. Naval officers walk across the lawn at the the Aviation Building, also known as the Fritz Hotel in Miami, Florida. Among tenants in the building is the Weather Bureau office and joint National Hurricane Center. Their WSR-57 radar antenna can be seen atop the building. Scene shifts to inside the Joint Hurricane center where theree Naval officers and a sailor are reviewing weather data. An animated map shows how the Caribbean regions are accessed by Hurricane Hunter aircraft from Jacksonville, Florida, and Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, respectively.