Boeing-Steerman PT-13, Kaydet airplanes in a row at training station.Flight instructors accompanying student pilots to the aircraft. Pt-13s start up, taxi, and one is seen taking off. Pilot trainees are shown a radial engine, by an officer.A student inserts a cylinder into engine block. Pilots from North and South American countries line up in front of At-6 (Texan) training aircraft. they run to their respective aircraft and start them up. Fuselage of one airplane shows crossed flags of United States and Chile. Formation of AT-6s in flight. A map shows airways in America. Another shows them in Central and South America. A map of the world shows the military Air Transport Commands routes.
After lenthy period of slates in Korean, the first images appear at TC: 01:52, as camera pans down over ruins at the front of the German chancellery in Berlin, Germany. A plaque in German identifies it as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP (Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party). Camera moves through various rooms of the building showing wreckage. In one room a world globe, a table and some broken furniture are shown. Scene changes to an animated map of Europe centered on Germany that depicts the dramatic expansion of German conquest in beginning of World War 2. It then shows further expansion with German invasion of the Soviet Union. From then on It adds a line directed to India (labeled in Russian) and another pointed into North America.The map then sends more lines covering the Continent of Africa and the South and Central America. These represent a plan for world conquest. View of a German three engine twin tail seaplane being launched by a catapult. Closeups of the plane in flight. Scene changes to German paratroopers jumping from a Junkers 52, three engine transport plane. Aerial view from above of the paratroopers leaping from the aircraft and from below as they descend with their chutes billowing out above them. Ground view of them landing on sand in North Africa. German troops on motor cycles, half track personnel carriers ( Sd.Kfz. 250 ) and Panzer III tanks. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel standing with his staff, directing elements of his Afrika Korps forces in North Africa. Smiling German troops riding in an open Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track personnel carrier. A huge explosion and dense black smoke is seen. Then, a German Heinkel HE 111 bomber is seen maneuvering overhead. Brief glimpse from an aircraft strafing an armored vehicle on the ground. Suddenly a submarine's periscope is seen just above the water and a transport ship (or freighter) is seen as through the periscope. Next, inside a German submarine, the Captain lowers his periscope and scene shifts to bow of submarine surfacing and the ship is seen burning and exploding. A torpedo is launched from a surfaced submarine and it strikes a ship creating a huge explosion and fireball.
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.
Early in Cuban Missile Crisis. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and other of President John Kennedy's advisors arrive at White House. Americans buying newspapers with headlines about the upcoming speech by the President. President Kennedy addresses citizens of America on television, explaining what has been happening in Cuba. U.S. citizens commenting in different manners on the situation. Civil defense shelters shown. Cuban blockade. Supermarket shelves stripped and queues at check outs. Governor Rossolini and Governor Rockefeller at White House to coordinate state civil defense activities. Comments by the governors to the press, talking about civil defense procedures and instructions for sheltering in place with food, water, geiger counter, radio.
Voice of America broadcasts from its studios in Washington, DC. Director in broadcast booth directs operation, pointing to engineer and then to a woman about to broadcast in chinese. Other reporters broadcast in different languages: a man in Hindi; a man in Arabic; a woman in Spanish; and a man in Russian.
Voice of America engineer sets up and operates equipment to master sound discs and tapes of broadcasts. Banks of sound tapes are seen in operation. An engineer is seen in a master control booth.
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