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.
Men bring rockets up on elevator to flight deck and transport rockets on flight deck. Pilots emerge on flight deck to man their planes. FM aircrafts catapulted from flight deck.
General Douglas MacArthur walks through ruins of Manila. General MacArthur inspects several destroyed buildings. Army tanks seen in the background.
Air field being strafed. Plane dives onto runaway area. Large fire and explosion. Buildings seen. Smoke arising from Atoll. (World War II period).
Allied invasion of Iheya Jima, Japan during World War II. Allied landing crafts and ships at the harbor. A destroyer fires at the beach. United States 2nd Marine Division troops loaded in LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) underway at sea. Landing craft move towards the beach. An Allied plane lays a smoke screen. Landing craft in the foreground.
Aftermath of Allied invasion of Iheya Jima, Japan during World War II. A Japanese woman. A wounded native man receives medical aid. Men and women sit in a line. Elderly women wounded due to Allied attacks. A child given blood plasma by allied medics. A Japanese man carried away on litter. United States Navy Corpsmen treat a native. LCT (Landing Craft Tank) and LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) on the beach. A Japanese woman and a child seated on the ground as they talk to an Allied soldier.
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