America's Olympic contenders return in Los Angeles, United States from the Olympic games at Melbourne. The America's Olympic team members climb down a ladder. American weightlifters Paul Anderson carrying Charles Vincci on his shoulders climbs down the ladder. A close up of American Oarsman John B. Kelly. Basketball player Bill Russell. A close up of Anderson waving. All the players including Anderson seated together. American athletes Glenn Davis and Greg Bell stand together. Olympic athletes Bob Richards, Charles Dumas and Tom Courtney stand together. Parry O' Brein meets his family members.
A film shows the historical places in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial administration. The Presidential Office building (No. 122, Section 1, Chongqing S Rd, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan 100) in Taipei. The Bank of Taiwan building. Traffic in front of the building. A view of the building. The building of Ministry of Transportation and Commerce (No. 50, Section 1, Ren'ai Rd, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan 100). The Legislature building. The Taipei City Hall building (No. 1, City Hall Rd, Xinyi District, Taipei City, Taiwan 110). Taipei Zhongshan Hall (Zhongzheng, Taipei, Taiwan). The Health Shrine. A bell hanging on a rope inside the shrine. Taipei Botanical Garden. Variety of plants grown in the garden. A historical building.
U.S. Army Air Defense elements respond to threats from an unidentified (possibly hostile) aircraft detected, near Alaska and over the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Closeup of a rotating radar antenna. High altitude contrails (vapor condensation trails) seen overhead. Two U.S. Army technicians tracking aircraft and making notes in an anti-aircraft operations center. Two soldiers in a control center at positions labeled "Intelligence Teller" and "AAA Opns Off" respectively. A Lieutenant joins them and directs one to push an alert button. Soldiers respond from their barracks and take up positions at a large tracking map table. They move markers to positions corresponding to incoming reports. A Colonel joins the Lieutenant, already at the control center, and takes up a position labeled, "Deputy Defense CO," (Deputy Defense Commanding Officer). In the background, reports can be heard coming into the control center about five aircraft at 18 thousand feet. Two soldiers plot information on vertical plexiglass display, showing radial lines and distances. . A sign above the boards reads, "Early Warning Op." More reports in the background refer to three aircraft. The Lieutenant has now moved to the position of "AAA Opns Off." View of a soldier markiing grease pencil entries of aircraft sighting reports, on a plexiglass display, at his work station. More views of information being reflected by soldiers moving markers on the map plotting table and the large vertical display. Closeup of the aircraft position markers being moved on the plotting table. A Battery Attack light flashes on another display. The Lieutenant wearing a headset, announces to all units the change of readiness condition to "battle attack." (He also states, "this is not an exercise," and adds "alert all batteries.") An alarm bell rings at an aircraft battery. Soldiers are awakened in their quarters and scramble to their respective guns in a 120 mm Gun M1 anti-aircraft battery. Each gun crew reports being ready, as they raise their gun barrels. More views of aircraft positions being plotted. One appears to reflect a threat to New York City. Computers record data necessary to aim anti-aircraft batteries. Range and azimuth data being displayed. Gunners load shells and propellant charges into their weapons. Gunners looking up and awaiting further instructions. View of all battery guns pointed skywards. Apartment houses in the background. Changing firing and wind azimuth plus fuze information being displayed. A radar antenna turning at the battery location. Narrator states that the aircraft near Alaska has disappeared over the Pacific and the Eastern Seaboard sightings turn out to be commercial aircraft forced off course by strong winds. View of a Lockheed Constellation flying through some clouds, and then landing at an airfield. Alert lights go out in the Anti-aircraft control center, returning to normal status. View of soldiers manning their positions in the center begin wrapping up their activities. One lights a pipe.
Film opens showing a U.S. Navy Gleaves-class destroyer in a bay. Closeup of radar antennas atop a U.S. Navy ship. A U.S. Navy submarine operating on the surface in icy waters. It has what appears to be a cylindrical shelter on its deck. The boat is covered in ice. Several men in foul weather gear are on its deck. Interior of a radar monitoring center, where a sailor, wearing a headset, monitors a plan position radar scope, where an unidentified aircraft is detected. Scene shifts to a U.S. Air Defense centers where such information is plotted on charts. Sign on table reads: "Supervisor GOC" (referring to the Ground Observer Corps) Civilian volunteer members of the Ground Observer Corps (organized by the U.S. Air Force in 1950) enter a room for a meeting. Narrator states that their mission is to operate 14 thousand observation posts and 49 filter centers. View shows predominately women volunteers in the group. Two uniformed Air Force men show silhouette diagrams of American military aircraft. Women connecting numerous phone callers at a large switch board installation. A barber serving a customer in his shop. A volunteer ground observer, at an outdoor post, watches as a flight of U.S. Air Force P-47 aircraft flies overhead in formation. A U.S. Army member of the Anti-aircraft Command, is seen at a desk. He receives a report of an unidentified aircraft and pushes a button to sound bells alerting soldiers who leave a dining hall in the midst of a meal to respond to their battle stations. They are joined by soldiers from elsewhere in the area. All rush to their assigned locations. View of them running across a field. A large suspension bridge in the background. Soldiers manning 120mm M1 anti-aircraft guns amidst views of rotating radar antennas. Soldiers loading shells into the guns. Soldier monitoring the unknown aircraft on radar equipment. View of hurriedly abandoned dining hall with uneaten meals on the tables. Soldiers lowering gun barrels and placing covers over them after the alert is cancelled.
Evacuation of casualties of the 173rd Airborne Brigade to a field hospital in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A medical tent. A wounded soldier is taken out of a U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois Bell Huey helicopter. The soldier whose face is a gory mass is carried on a litter. Another helicopter lands on a field. The wounded is taken from one helicopter to another. Men carry the patient on a litter.
The 42nd Anniversary celebration of the Boy Scouts of America celebrated in San Francisco, California. People gather for the celebration. Aerial view of Boy Scouts gathered on the deck of the USS Intrepid (CV-11). The Boy Scouts spell out their motto "Be Prepared" in giant human chain letters across the deck of the aircraft carrier. Officers and other people seated in chairs at the ceremony. People applaud. The recommissioning of carrier USS Intrepid. Close view of a a group of Asian-American Cub Scouts on the deck. A replica of the Liberty Bell, the symbol of Boy Scout Week, is presented to a U.S. Navy officer by Scout Krazner.
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