United States Air Force (USAF) personnel participate in basic aerobics at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas. USAF personnel and girls ride bicycles. Views of USAF personnel riding bicycle. Views of two girls riding bicycles. Cars drive in the background.
McCarthy hearings in New York City, United States, investigating alleged Communist infiltration of the United States Army Signal Corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth. (Senate subcommittee investigating Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage.) United States Army Colonel Ferry takes his seat and begins testimony. Photographers take photos. Officials seated in hearing room including Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn. View of other elected officials present. Officials stand at end of testimony and talk informally together during a break in proceedings.
Explosion of the first ever Atomic Bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico in World War II. Brilliant flash at detonation of the Atomic bomb. Huge smoke cloud rises. Smoke all around. Narrator indicates that men 5 miles away were knocked down, that a pressure wave was felt and the sound and quake was noted in an area 300 square miles in size. He indicates that the testing platform was vaporized. He comments on the awesome power of the weapon, its ability to shorten the war, and the important responsibility that rests with those who know the secrets of the weapon.
American volunteers return to New York from action in the Spanish Civil War in Spain. American volunteers, who fought with Loyalist troops in Spain against General Francisco Franco's nationalist insurgents, aboard SS Paris. They all pose. Large crowds gather in streets to welcome them as they arrive. The Americans march along the streets of the city in a reception parade. They hold banners. A banner reads as 'American Youth welcomes veterans of Lincoln Brigade'.
Closeup of a freighter steaming past the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. Sailors riding on a commercial bus near the entrance to the U.S. Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia. Traffic at the road intersection. Entrance sign identifying the U.S. Navy base. Views of ships docked at the base. Flags flying outside the Headquarters of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT). View of the great map room inside the headquarters. Officers from various NATO countries seated for a briefing conducted by A U.S. Navy Captain circa 1954. The most senior officers, including the first SACLANT, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, step close to the map, where he speaks to the briefing officer. Closeup of the briefing officer moving images of aircraft over the map in the vicinity of the Portuguese Azore Islands. Closeup of straits of Gibraltar and then of Brest and Cherbourg on the coast of France; the Western approaches to the British Isles; the Norwegian coast; Iceland; Northern Labrador; the whole seaboard of Canada and the United States. View of waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Glimpse back to Admiral McCormick at the briefing map and then to a partially submerged submarine moving in water of the Atlantic. Narrator mentions subs of the 1960s. U.S. nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine launches a polaris missile. Final view of briefing map.
Training of United States troops at Camp Johnston, Florida during World War II Troops standing in attention. They turn back and enter into lake. They swim in the lake. They swim in various positions. Troops with equipment and guns, jump from tower into lake. They swim in the lake. Troops swim under burning oil on water.
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