Marshall Plan projects related to agriculture in Ireland. Ancient ruins in countryside. Men quarrying limestone with hand tools. They break it off and it tumbles down the hillside and is loaded into truck by a crane. American trucks with dispersing mechanism for spreading limestone. A truck spreading limestone on a farm field. Farm views: Men working in a grain field and pitching hay into a stack. A young boy on top of the stack packs the hay down. A farm cottage and man with donkey. A person in a tractor. Views of husbandry where ducks, pigs and cows are seen. Scenes of Dublin, with heavy traffic, double-decker buses, cars and bicycles.
A Royal Air Force helicopter lands on a landing pad in Cork, Ireland. The helicopter has forty-eight members rescued after a U.S. plane forced to ditch off the Irish Coast. Survivors sitting in the helicopter taken on the litter and sent to a hospital in an ambulance. Rescue officers surround the helicopter and take the injured survivors of the accident for medical relief.
Jacqueline Kennedy converses with Irish President and Mrs. Eamon De Valera, on the steps of the Presidential home, during her vacation in Dublin, Ireland.
'The Irish go for baseball'. Huge crowd gathers to watch a charity baseball game in Windsor Park, Belfast, Ireland. 34th Infantry and 1st Armored division all-stars teams play baseball before a crowd that includes many uniformed U.S. military, as well as Irish civilians and stands filled with young boys. An advertisement for Gallaher’s Tobacco is seen on the railway stand. Representing the 34th Infantry Division were the Midwest Giants while the 1st Armored Division was represented by the Kentucky Wildcats. (World War II period).
Launching of the "Myrina, " the largest tanker ship ever launched in the United Kingdom. The ship measures 1050 feet long and weighs 191thousand tons. She is seen going down the ways at Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland. During her launching, a gust of wind catches her, before tug boats can assist, and she goes aground. But she is quickly pulled free and proceeds on her way.
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes at Sydenham Airfield in Belfast, Ireland. Airmen assemble a P-47. A crane on a truck hoists a crate. A caterpillar skids the crate. Airmen strip off the tape. A man opens the crate and remove parts. A hangar in the background. A foreman checks the parts from the crate. A P-47 in the background. Men assemble a tank and attach a rubber on the P-47. They take the cowling from the nose of the P-47. Men push a crane with 4 blade prop to the nose. The P-47 takes off from the runway.