General Walter Kruger on his visit to United States 11th Airborne Division reviews troops in Lipa, Philippines. He pins up medals to Major General Joseph Swing and other officers. Paratroopers jump from C-46 aircrafts and float to earth. Two planes two gliders as one of the gliders cuts loose and lands. Soldiers march in a review. (World War II period).
'Autobiography of a Jeep' about the introduction of jeep in United States Army during World War II. Deserts, roads and highways in the United States. Aerial view of an intersection of highways. Explosion occurs and soldiers march symbolizing the country at war. Men cover a car. Trucks loaded with equipment on the move. Men design cars. Cars being displayed at an auto show. Jeeps being designed by draftsmen for military purpose. A man in a jeep. Soldiers look at the jeep. A man gets under the jeep. The jeep being tested over various obstacles. It is used for maneuvers in forests. Soldiers loaded on to a jeep as it moves through dense forests. A Jeep pulls a trailer. A Jeep being wrapped in a canvas and it crosses the river. Soldiers board a plane. A jeep being loaded onto a plane. The plane in flight. A jeep being loaded onto a transport glider. A jeep tows a glider.
Gliders in flight at a contest at the Wasserkuppe hill in Germany. A Fokker biplane piloted by Anthony Fokker in flight. The biplane glider flies. The Fokker biplane atop an early model car. Four hangar type buildings with two monoplanes parked. Men carry a plane.
International exchange of CAP ( Civil Air Patrol ) cadets in Urbana, Illinois. A control tower with a sign that reads ' Welcome to University of Illinois airport '. A group of foreign cadets walk past the foot of the control tower. A flight line at the airport. Gliders and liaison planes on the line. The cadets look at the aircraft. A glider pilot gets into the cockpit of a plane. He fastens himself.
June 10, 1940, American man, in San Francisco barbershop, reads newspaper report that Italy enters World War 2 as part of Axis and against France and Britain. Barber cuts the mans hair. They both look over at a portable radio on a counter and listen as President Roosevelt denounces Italy's action. American family with a husband, wife, and boy sit in a living room and listen to the radio while William L. Shirer broadcasts from Compiègne as France signs an armistice with Hitler. Views of railroad carriage in clearing surrounded by German troops in formation. Hitler strides with Hermann Goering, Admiral Erich Raeder, and others. Statue of Marshal Foch. French General Huntzinger, and his delegation escorted by German officers. Hitler and his delegation rise as the French delegation enters the rail car. Germans drape Nazi flag over the Glade of the Armistice monument (French: Clairière de l'Armistice). View of the Eiffel Tower. German troops marching through the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysee in Paris. Hitler's railroad train entering Paris station. Hitler taking an early morning tour of Paris in an open car. Hitler and party admiring the Eiffel Tower during German invasion of France and occupation of France. View from Eiffel Tower of German troops marching along street. German rail guns in new positions on coast of France, pointed toward the English Channel and England. The German rail guns moving on tracks and firing. Animated map showing Allies overseas possessions. German residents in Brazil in largely German communities, with German schools, German school children, Nazi textbooks, and Nazi German newspapers in a town in Brazil. A Hermann Goering glider club operating in Brazil, as a glider is prepared for flight. View of Japanese residents in Brazil on behalf of Imperial Japan. SEDTA German airline planes with bomb racks operating in Ecuador, South America. Germans exercising at exclusive German clubs in Argentina, modeled after Hitler Youth. Narrator indicates these operations represented a "Fifth Column" ready to take over.
Scale model tests of proposed Boeing Dyna-Soar in the United States. Views of the earth showing the flight path of the Dyna-Soar and a launching at Cape Canaveral. A table-top model of Boeing proposed Dyna-Soar airborne vehicle with multi-stage rockets on a launch pad and gantry towers. A flight capsule and a crew accommodations display board and a scale model of proposed Boeing Dyna-Soar turning on a pedestal in the foreground. A drawing shows the proposed cockpit configuration for the Boeing Dyna-Soar vehicle. A man in a pressure suit seated in the cockpit of full scale mockup of the Boeing proposed Dyna-Soar. A drawing shows various stages of proposed capsule separation. Wind tunnel capsule separation test using scale models. Boeing Dyna-Soar wind tunnel model being held by a technician. The technician places the Boeing model in the Arnold engineering hot shot tunnel. Views of the model of Boeing Dyna-Soar under a bank of quartz lamps during a structural heat test. The model nose cone is heated by multi-gas jet device. A Boeing DS-1 model enters the wind tunnel. A drawing shows general arrangement of the DS-1 Dyna-Soar booster and glider. Full scale mockup of Boeing DS-1 glider mockup on display.
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