View of a car parked near icy pond while several boys sit at the pond edge. Children put on ice skates and a man gets into the car on the road beside. Boys ice skate away and the Model-T Ford automobile drives away.
Brief view of Soviet troops marching in Red Square. Cut to the signing ceremonies for the North Atlantic Treaty, which created The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. Representatives from the various signing countries seated at the assembly. A view of the flags of the participating nations. Two officials signing the treaty document while the other representatives look on: Mr Paul-Henri Spaak (Minister of Foreign Affairs) signing on behalf of Belgium; and then another official.
Front entrance to Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A car entering the base as the guard salutes. F-4D Phantom Flight crew from the USAF 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing check in at the operations desk. They display the Black Sheep logo patch of the 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron on their flight suits. After signing in, they enter a briefing room where others are assembled. The Squadron Commander, a Lieutenant Colonel, briefs them on the planned "Crested Cap II" deployment route, to their NATO dual base, at Ramstein, Germany. He points out the flight path across the U.S. and across the Atlantic to Europe, on a map that also depicts places where refueling aircraft will be orbiting over the ocean. Views of the air crews putting on anti-exposure suits and equipment.
President Lyndon B Johnson gives a speech at the John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218, United States) in Baltimore. He talks about U.S. relations with South Vietnam, peace talks and proposes an aid program. He offers to hold diplomatic discussions to end the war in Vietnam. He states the need for an independent South Vietnam. “Such peace demands an independent South Viet-Nam—securely guaranteed and able to shape its own relationships to all others—free from outside interference—tied to no alliance—a military base for no other country.” President Johnson said. The President calls upon South East Asia nations for a co-operative economic drive, and asks the United Nations and nations like the Soviet Union to join in. “For our part I will ask the Congress to join in a billion-dollar American investment in this effort as soon as it is underway. And I would hope that all other industrialized countries, including the Soviet Union, will join in this effort to replace despair with hope, and terror with progress.” President Johnson said. Men working with heavy machinery in a South East Asian industrial plant. View of working men constructing a modern bridge in Vietnam. Vietnamese farmer threshing harvested rice. A doctor examines a Vietnamese man. The crowd applauds the President's speech. Views of Vietnamese people working on farms, in technical and scientific laboratories, and industrialization in Vietnam. A European or American professor teaches a Vietnamese student inside a laboratory. Vietnamese women working inside a textile factory. Vietnamese farmers carrying produce. President Johnson quotes from the book of Deuteronomy in the Bible. “We may well be living in the time foretold many years ago when it was said: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Well, we will choose life. In so doing we will prevail over the enemies within man, and over the natural enemies of all mankind.” President Johnson concludes his speech.
Seated in the White House, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers parts of a speech being recorded for broadcast to the attendees at the 13th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony in Hollywood. He talks about the American Motion Picture industry, the ban on American films in certain countries, the Lend-Lease Bill, and service provided by the newsreels.
'Battle Stations' depicts life as a United States Coast Guard. Medals lie on citations for gallantry in action during the landing on Tulagi Island. Images of U.S. Coast Guard cutters at sea and soldiers in battle as the citations are read out. U.S. CG troops during a parade. Sailors with rifles. They march with the U.S. flag. CG cutters in heavy seas. Sailor watches through binoculars. A sailor at the deck gun, another sends a semaphore signal. The Congressional Medal of Honor lies on a citation for heroism and gallantry in action during the evacuation of a battalion on Guadalcanal. Bodies of U.S. Coast Guard sailors wrapped in U.S. flags. Sailors salute as bodies are loaded. Women take the oath as they join the U.S. Coast Guard as U.S. Coast Guard SPARS (US CG Women's Reserve). Training Station: New SPARS recruits arrive as graduates leave the station. Recruits on bunk beds, during training, getting uniforms, on bicycles, and attending classes. Class of SPARS graduates receiving diplomas. Narration by Ginger Rogers and James Cagney.
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