Population worldwide shown waiting for news about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Groups of people watching televisions and listening to radios. Press announcement in front of White House that President Kennedy has received message from Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, saying that Russia will dismantle missile sites in Cuba. Views of various ships in United States fleet. Military band playing at port as wives and children of U.S. military service men return to Guantanamo, hug and greet the service men, and celebrate. View of a small church and citizens entering the church. Americans going to work. Reconnaissance photos showing missiles dismantled, and showing shadow of the photographing aircraft, itself. Soviet ships carrying missiles out of Cuba. American men, women, and children pedestirans walking on sidewalks in the downtown area of a town, past shops and stores. A man entering a building beside a fallout shelter sign. Department of Defense logo is shown at end of film, followed by on screen text, "If our country should ever be attacked by nuclear weapons, people at ground zero would be lost. But millions more, outside these areas of complete destruction, would be spared, only to be imperiled by radioactive fallout. Today, the nation is better prepared to meet this threat, as the community fallout shelter program goes forward. But much work still remains to be done. Cuba may not be the last crisis we'll be called on to face. But let it be the last we'll face unprepared.
U.S. Army Air Forces operations in Pacific theater during World War 2. Animation shows locations of U.S. 13th Air Force on New Caledonia and U.S. 5th Air Force on Australia. Map shows Hawaii. Main gate at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. U.S. 7th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft takes off from Hickam AFB. Animation shows the flight of bombers. Jeeps along a jungle highway. Sign on tree reads 'Ohare Field'. Gun crew clean machine guns. 75 mm canon in nose of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 being cleaned by ground crew. B-25 takes off from Coral airstrip. B-25s in formation. B-25s in flight firing cannons. B-25s strafing Japanese airfields.
Map shows Solomon Islands in South Pacific. Truk and Australia are highlighted. Tulagi and Guadalcanal are shown. American Naval task force, including Attack Transports and warships seen underway in stormy Pacific waters. Sailors loading heavy naval guns aboard a U.S. warship. Ship's guns firing. Smoke rising from explosions on island. shows smoke rising. USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) is seen at time 1:34, firing its main battery. Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft flying low overhead. U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal. Marines wading ashore. American Douglas SBD lands at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. B-17s on Henderson Field, including B-17E Serial number 41-9145 of the 26th Bombardment Squadron.Long column of U.S. marines snakes across edge of airfield headed towards interior of Guadalcanal. Scene shifts to jungle interior, where they march two abreast over captured terrain. A building in the background. Marines firing a 105mm Howitzers. A B-25 bomber taking off. B-26 bombers in flight. Closeup of B-26 flying over water. View from cockpit of U.S. aircraft strafing Japanese held island, striking targets at shoreline and aircraft and supplies on a Japanese airfield. Japanese marines taken prisoner on Guadalcanal. Views of groups of Japanese prisoners of war. Japanese soldiers stand in formation and are also seen sitting in confined areas.US marines patrolling shore where numerous Japanese soldiers are seen dead.
The Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 and B-17 bombers on bombing mission from Adak Island to Kiska, Aleutian Islands. The B-24 aircraft in formation over the Pacific Ocean. Navigator at his position with compasses and chart. Gunners test turrets and guns. Scene shifts to the B-17s flying at low level over water. Small iceberg seen off wing of B-17. One B-17 displays number 19162 on its tail. Kiska volcano seen. Scene shifts again, to B-24 Liberator bombers maneuvering over Kiska, then shifts again, to B-17s on a low altitude bomb run. Bombardier over bomb sight dropping bombs. Views of bombs falling from the higher flying formation of B-24s. Low altitude bomb run by B-17s. Gunners firing at ground targets.Bombs falling. Some black Flak bursts are seen. Flights of B24s and B-17s returning from Kiska, as fires burn at the targets.
Aviator Charles Lindberg receives the Langley medal. Lindbergh lands his plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis' at Roosevelt Field. Another plane parked in the field. Lindbergh gets off the plane and stands beside it. A large crowd gathered on the field. The throngs cheer and applaud as Lindbergh is awarded the Langley medal. He expresses his thanks. Aerial view of huge crows all around the air field. Lindbergh emerges from the air field accompanied by officers and officials. He takes his place in a car. Lindbergh talks to an officer.
A U.S. Navy Task Force underway in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Saipan, Mariana Islands during the Battle of Saipan of World War 2. Closeup of triple gun turrets turned to port on a U.S. warship in the task force. Shells striking at shoreline of the island in distance. View of warship in the distance firing its naval guns to port. A Flush deck destroyer escort firing to port, from close to the island. Sailors in position with a twin Bofors 40mm gun. At TC:00:37 mark is the USS Indianapolis CA 35 heavy cruiser.Landing craft approaching the shore, where smoke is rising. A huge explosion in the water near the shore. Shell bursts in the water short of the island. Landing craft underway.
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