U.S. 7th Infantry Division in Bleialf, Germany. C-47 Skytrains in flight during World War II. They drop parachute supplies for U.S. 7th Infantry Division.
A cold rainy evening in Germany. Two U.S. Army jeeps enter the courtyard of a building in the vicinity of Bleialf, being used as a headquarters, by VIII Corps. Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Commander, U.S. 3rd Army, accompanied by staff members, steps from his jeep and ascends steps of the building, where an officer holds the door for him. A dog also greets him on the top step. Later, General Patton is seen leaving the building, followed by a Major General. An officer from the building sees them off, informally. He wears the insignia of VIII Corps on his uniform sleeve.
A U.S. Army VH-3A helicopter lands on the lawn of the Hotel General von Steuben, in Wiesbaden, Germany. A crowd of spectators stands across the drive from the hotel lawn, constrained by German policemen. U.S. Air Force Military policemen stand guard on the nearer side of the drive. Soon the Presidential VH-3 helicopter, Marine One, lands on the lawn. It displays the Presidential seal and that of the Military District of Washington, DC. Next, President John F. Kennedy is seen walking past the Army helicopter and into the U.S. Military's Hotel General von Steuben. He is accompanied by German Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk and U.S. Army Aide, Brigadier General Chester V. Clifton, along with a phalanx of Secret Service Agents. Other officials look out from a dining room window of the hotel as the Presidential party arrives. (Note: In the 1950s, the U.S. built three large military hotels in Wiesbaden. In 1951,a star-shaped Hotel [the American Arms] was built on Frankfurter Strasse. In 1955, the 9-story Amelia Earhart Hotel was opened. It was a utilitarian structure, with row after row of windows. President Nixon once stayed there. It closed in 1995. The General von Steuben Hotel, depicted in this film, was the newest, built in 1956, on Auguste Viktoria Strasse, near the train station. It is now a commercial hotel, "the Dorint Hotel Pallas Wiesbaden.")
U.S. President John F Kennedy's motorcade moving to Villa Hammerschmidt, German President Heinrich Lubke's residence in Bonn. Two children greet President by giving U.S. and German flags to him. Scene of signing a deal. President Kennedy with his sister Eunice Shriver, wife of Director Peace Corps meets volunteers. Footage of signed deal. President arrives at Federal Foreign Office for inauguration of West German Development Service and addresses international press community about U.S. and West Germany relationships, and German reunification.
Large crowd at a stadium in Stuttgart, Germany. Gymanasts show their skills on bars. Spectators clap for the performances. Gymnasts show skills in Flying Rings event. A flag can be seen. Gymnasts show skills by jumping on trampolines.
A season of swimming comes to an end in Reutlingen, Germany. Women divers dive in Platform Diving event. One of the divers shows backward one and a half somersault. All the winners are Germans. Men's 10m Platform Diving event is held and divers dive from platform.
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