Opening scene, from World War 2, shows German sailors gathered around two naval officers on a dock. One is in a dark uniform with dark hat. The other is in working uniform and a white hat. He renders traditional hand salute. View from further away shows many sailors and a couple of officers crowded together on a wooden pier, and shifts to reveal sailors lined up formally on the deck of a submarine tied to the pier. A closeup from below shows officers saluting from the bridge of the first submarine. Sailors wave their hats from a pier next to a large docked ship, as the submarine sails away into the harbor. Change of scene shows submarine cruising on the surface passing a camera on another boat (unseen). Views of a destroyer with sun in background obscured by mist. Submarine seen submerging. Closeup of sailor using a signal lamp on a submarine. The submarine and a destroyer signalling each other with lamps. The submarine proceeding partially submerged. Scene changes to closeups of a sailor aboard a destroyer using an optical range finder. Next, sailors roll out hose on the deck of the destroyer. An officer and a sailor connect the hose to a seawater pump on the deck. Extreme closeup of the officer. Sailor on deck looks through binoculars at a submarine on the surface. Gun crew responds to battle station manning 20cm Vierling Flak 38 guns on the destroyer. Officer, with hat on backwards, looks through a gun sight. Multiple views of the gun crews firing twin Flak 38 antiaircraft guns. Two German Junkers Ju 88 bombers, flying low, pass the destroyer. Closeup of German naval officer aboard the destroyer. Two more bombers seen high overhead. Several German submarines seen cruising at high speed on the surface. Glimpse of a sailor using signal lamp. View from a destroyer looking astern at another one behind it, as they cruise at high speed, raising large wakes. New segment shows crew at work inside a submarine. Brief view of Captain looking through periscope. Crew members rapidly turning valve control wheels as boat prepares to dive. Another view of destroyers in formation raising huge wakes.
Narrated News Reel footage. Wounded Chinese soldiers at a frontline hospital in Burma during World War II. Animated map shows Yupbang, Burma. U.S. Army General Joseph W. Stilwell watches Chinese casualties evacuated to a hospital near the frontline. Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave attends to the wounded Chinese soldiers in the field hospital. Burmese nurses with a wounded Chinese soldier. The American doctor and the Burmese nurses treat the casualties. A wounded Chinese soldier in a body cast. Chinese soldiers are transferred on stretchers and are loaded into a U.S. L-4 airplane flown by the 71st Liaison Squadron. An American pilot in the L-4 airplane. It takes off. 71st Liaison Squadron L-4 airplanes fly above cloud formation and land at an airstrip near Ledo. Wounded men are transferred from the airplanes to ambulances and taken to hospital. The airpanes take off.
William Frederick Halsey celebrates Japanese surrender aboard USS Missouri in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri underway at sea. U.S. Navy Admiral and Commander of Third Fleet William Frederick Halsey, Jr and other senior U.S. and British Navy officers raise a toast aboard USS Missouri as they receive news of Japanese surrender. They are seated at a table. A special cake decorated with Japanese rising sun is brought. A marine holding a bayonet stands behind the group. After the cake is placed on the table, the marine proffers the bayonet to Admiral Halsey, who uses it to cut the cake and serves it. He eats the cake. Views of Admiral Halsey as he speaks.
Social impact of the Cultural Revolution and the deification of Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Tse Tung (or Mao Zedong) in Beijing, China. Civilians walk on a street. Signs painted on walls. Chinese citizens get their news from charts placed on the walls. The civilians read newspapers on the streets. The civilians gathered in front of a building. They read the charts placed on the building's wall. A large crowd of uniformed Red Guard youth gathered in a square and each of them is reading Mao's Little Red Book (also sometimes called the Mao bible). The Red Guard begin to read aloud in unison, from Mao's book.
Republic of China President and Madame Chiang Kai Shek on a vacation in China. They walk through woods. They visit a waterfall site. The formal inauguration ceremony of Chiang Kai-shek and Li Tsung-jen, as Republic of China President and Vice-President, respectively. President Chiang Kai-shek addresses a gathering, while Vice-President Li Tsung-jen, in military uniform, stands at attention on the stage. Large numbers of international representatives come forward to greet and recognize the new Republic of China President.
Activities at the control center of the Command Guidance System for Titan I missile in the United States. Radar equipment and guidance computers are placed in the operation room. Materials required for inserting targets into computers are supplied by the targeting package. Target tape, guidance program tape and digital simulation tape included in the launch control folder. It also includes 9 cards and launch control council labels. The target tape and guidance program tape are fed into computer om computer room to give desired trajectory for missiles. The information is stored in computer and is checked for accuracy of transfer. The cards are place in a reader. Which transmits information. Council labels are placed on the launch control council to identify targets stored in the computer. Using stored information and the digital simulation tape a close loop test is stimulated. The resulting computer commands are compared with the precalculated value stored on digital simulation tape. The Missile Combat Crew Commander sets on switches. Target is verified and target package identification label and target designation number are printed out. Targets are stored in guidance computers once targeting is completed. New targets can be substituted in the target library.
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