Operation Skywatch in the United States. Poster reads' Volunteers needed for ground observer corps'. Civilians enter and leave clothing store. Civilian buys material at counter. Woman clerk. Two civilians stand and talk by station wagon on street. Woman holding baby talks to man on couch. Man and woman in chicken yard. Man speaks. Woman talks to man while feeding chickens. Man and woman talk outside building with sign' Office'. Man gets a haircut at the barber shop. Poster reads ' the job we do'. Civilians enter the doorway for the Ground Observer Corps meeting. Men and women listen to lecture. Army man talks and points to blackboard. Civilians listen to speaker. Man points to aircraft identification diagram. Other man points at wall map. Gathering talk and point at map.
Operation Skywatch in the United States. Man looks out through window of building at 'Ground Observer Post'. Old man looks up at sky. Woman looks into sky. Farmer outside barn feeds pigs. Woman watches sky. Women in Ground Observer tower look into sky. Young boy looks into sky with binoculars. Two women standing outside Ground observer shack. Two girls standing on porch outside Ground observer shack. Aircraft in flight. One girl writing on clipboard enters building. Girl hands report on clipboard to man at desk. Man picks up phone and reads report. Two women stand by door of Ground observer corps shack. Two men scan sky from post in Ground observer corps shack. Poster reads ' Plotting time delay'. Woman moves aircraft models on plotting board. Man scans sky. Aircraft in flight. Man holds clipboard. He stands in front of house and talks to boy. Boy talks on telephone at window. Man and woman seated at recording center. They wear head phones. People at controls. Man talks on phone. Men seated at chair get up and run outside as the siren rings. They get in the aircraft parked at airfield. Signal man directs the take off. Aircraft takes off. United States Air Force General Nathan Farragut Twining seated at desk. He speaks.
Operation Skywatch in the United States. Two Air Force enlisted men play ping pong in recreation room. Barber gives haircut to Air Force enlisted man. Enlisted man buys supplies at shop. Purchaser at shop.
A Foreign relations committee meeting in Washington D.C., United States. An official enters the committee room. A sign on the door reads 'Executive Session Admittance to members of committee only'. Delegates seated during the conference. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles looks at a map. Robert Alphonso Taft, Republican United States Senator and Joseph T Ferguson discuss. Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Alexander Wiley sits with an official. He addresses the conference. He states that the military decisions will rest on the President
United States Army General Maxwell Davenport Taylor visit a base in Korea during the Korean War. General Maxwell Davenport Taylor with other officers as he inspects his command area. He walks past the captured field artillery for the training of the Republic of Korea Army (ROK Army). He walks past the military tanks. A soldier helps the general to embark onto a tank. The general looks at the captured weapons. A helicopter lands. General Maxwell Davenport Taylor disembarks from the aircraft. He is being greeted by the officers. The officers pose in front of a building.
The award ceremony of the Photoplay in California, United States. James Maitland Stewart (Jimmy Stewart), an American actor, gets the Photoplay award by the Vice President of the Magazine Fred R Sammis. An American Hollywood film producer William Goetz gets award for introducing new talent. Hal Douglas and Fred R Sammis present the award. They stand with young talented actors Jeff Chandler, Tony Curtis, Julia Adams, and Rock Hudson.