C-130 annual report shows Lockheed C-130B Hercules in the United States. Lockheed C-130B Hercules in flight. Shows a copilot at controls. Lockheed C-130B Hercules wing tip above heavy cloud bank. Lockheed RC-130A Hercules in flight. Observers at instruments. A Lockheed C-130B Hercules lands at La Paz Airport, Bolivia. A Lockheed C-130B Hercules lands at Goroka Airport, New Guinea.
Fort Riley, Kansas. Latin American officers observe practice firing of 37mm anti-tank guns including prototype vehicle mounted 37mms. U.S. Army Soldiers fire the guns positioned on the ground and then mounted on a Bantam jeep and M3A1 scout car. View of moving target and tracers. Lt. Aponte from Bolivia, Lt. Belfort and Lt. Stall from Brazil, as well as other visiting officers, take turns viewing through the gun telescope and giving firing orders. (World War II period).
Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip of Britain on his visit to South America on a mission for the British Government. He visits remains of the ancient Inca tribe with other dignitaries. Women and children of Inca origin in traditional dresses during his visit. Duke during a ceremony at Bolivia's British owned tin mine. A large crowd welcomes Prince Phillip and a native woman hugs him. Crowd of natives follows his motorcade driving on roads of a city.
Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps in New York, United States. Shriver delivers a speech about the success of Peace Corps volunteers, men and women seated in the background. He quotes an example of a Peace Corps volunteer who got elected to the supreme board of directors of all the slums in a city in Peru. Shriver says that future peace depends on creating awareness among the downtrodden masses. He narrates an incident how the Bolivian Ambassador praised the work done by Peace Corps volunteers in Bolivia.
Internees at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. A Jewish internee, George Henning from Berlin states how he was taken to a concentration camp near Berlin and later shifted to Buchenwald. He greets his mother in New York and other dear ones living in Bolivia. Other internees in the background.
Film showing city of Hiroshima, Japan, before and after the August 6, 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb over the city in World War 2. Sequence opens on what the narrator says is August 5, 1945, the day before the event (but the footage is likely from before that date). Camera pans over the city of Hiroshima before the atomic bomb destroyed the city. Japanese air raid lookouts are seen on watch for allied bombers. View of atomic bomb detonation as seen from aircraft high overhead (this is actually a view of the Nagasaki blast, not the Hiroshima blast despite narrator's comments). Next, the complete destruction of the city of Hiroshima is seen from camera at low altitude showing the four and one half square miles of the city flattened and burned. A Japanese hospital still functioning, with red cross flag on it. Hospital workers retrieving wounded victims of the bombing. Ambulatory victims clustered in doorways and halls. Shadow image of a large industrial valve wheel burned onto wall behind it. Similar image of a ladder burned onto a wall. The decorative pattern on a woman's dress burned onto skin of her back. Japanese physicians treating victims of thermal and radiation burns. Views of various victims, including some children, and their respective injuries. Scene shifts forward one year, to August 6, 1946. Children are lined up outside a school building, and then seen inside their classroom. Disfiguration and wounds on children resulting from injuries are still evident on the children at their desks. Sequence shifts again, this time to an early United Nations meeting with delegates grappling with the issue of controlling nuclear power and atomic weapons. Closeup view of American delegates, including James F. Byrnes (Secretary of State)and James B. Conant, President of Harvard University in the assembly. Closeups of representatives from South Asian nations. Closeup of USSR delegation, headed by Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. Signs identifying delegates from Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Bolivia, China. Final sequence shows several U.S. atomic scientists in their respective laboratories, including Enrico Fermi and Vannevar Bush. United States representative to the UN, Warren Austin, speaking about the so-called Baruch Plan, for international control of atomic weapons. (Principal author, Bernard Baruch, is standing behind speaker's left shoulder.) USSR delegation, headed by permanent representative, Andrei Gromyko, who is seen presenting the Soviet plan. View of explosion and mushroom cloud during U.S. Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test in the Pacific.