Sand table animation shows plan of attack on Liege. Point of application for initial thrusts is Fort Eben Emael on border of Belgium and Netherlands. Map illustrates bombardment fron the air by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force). River Meuse and the Albert canal in the city. Bridge on the river. First line-the Ijssel position, second line-the Grebbe position, third line-the the Meuse position, fourth line- the Peel position. Fifth line-the Willem canal fortification and sixth line-the Albert canal fortification. Soldiers move in trucks on the street. German assault and shock troops use rubber boats with ladders to cross river Meuse under fire. Mechanized German infantry and bicycle contingents cross river Meuse over bridges not destroyed. Houses and buildings alongside the street. Soldiers fire guns in field. Smoke arises due to the firing. Soldiers at a boat in the waterway. Destruction of Werk 4 bunker fortification at Fort Eben-Emael. Wreckage from bombardment. Heavy smoke arises from firing and bombardment. Captured Dutch and Belgian Prisoner of War soldiers walk on the street under guard of German soldiers during German occupation. (World War II period).
Senator Joseph McCarthy, Chairman, Senate Subcommittee, investigating Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage at Fort Monmouth, during a press conference at the Federal Building in New York City. He is accompanied by Major General K.B Lawton, Commanding General of Fort Monmouth (in civilian clothes). Journalist asks Senator McCarthy about the outcome of the investigations into leaked information. McCarthy discusses suspensions of employees at Forth Monmouth due to communist activities and involvement with communism and espionage.
View of cars driving West along the Belt Parkway, approaching the exit to the Verrazzano bridge, adjacent to Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City. Views of traffic on the bridge and across the Narrows to Fort Wadsworth, on the Staten Island (Borough of Richmond) side of the bridge. The only vehicles seen on the bridge are two trucks headed North toward Brooklyn on the upper deck (The lower deck has not yet been opened to traffic.) A ship is seen moving under the bridge as it enters the upper bay heading toward New York harbor. Work barges are seen near the bridge pier, as construction work is still in progress. (Note: The Verrazzano Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the United States.)
Models and drawings of futuristic planes in the Air Force Laboratories at Wright Field, Ohio. Scenes of XP-67 aircraft in flight. A Northrup N9MB Experimental Flying Wing aircraft taxiing and in flight. A larger version, the XB-35 aircraft under construction. The XB-35 taking off. P-82 aircraft taxiing and taking off. Pilot in P-82. P-82 in flight. The XB-36 aircraft being assembled for its initial test flight, at the Convair factory in Fort Worth, Texas. XB-36 taking off from the Convair factory runway, at Fort Worth, Texas, and then in flight, with landing gear (of two 110-inch single tires) extended. View from above it as XB-36 lands at Eglin Air Field (one of only three airfields capable of bearing its high pressure wheel loading, which required concrete 22 inches thick). Officers standing by the tire of the XB-36 aircraft . B-50 aircraft taxiing and taking off. B-50 buzzing field. Demonstration of variable pitch propeller operation, including the blades going into full feather position. B-50 in flight on one engine, with props on engines 1,3, and 4 feathered. Testing landing gear on C-69 aircraft. C-69 landing. Testing landing gear of B-32 aircraft. Wind tunnels. Series of shots of wind tunnel.
Scenes of radar trailer. Scenes of MSQ tracking site in Tripoli, Libya. Antenna on trucks. Scenes of an Old fort. Truck parked near fort.
Camera pans over destruction in aftermath of German siege of Sevastopol, Crimea, in World War 2. German General Erich von Manstein, Commander of German and Romanian forces, visits with officers in the ruins of Fort Maxim Gorky. He shakes hands with several of his troops, standing in front of one of the Soviet 305mm coastal guns atop the fort. Scenes of wrecked Soviet defensive batteries. Romanian troops testing the area for buried land mines. A flag identifies location of one. Romanian soldiers removing a buried mine. Romanian officers overseeing the operation. Romanian troops moving downward from the slopes toward the city, where smoke rises from bombardment. German troops moving toward bunkers. One throws a hand grenade. German soldiers moving through the city in house-to-house operations. Soviet warships sunk in the harbor. The Nazi flag flying above damaged building overlooking the harbor. What appear to be twin towers of a Russian Church and a minaret are seen in the rubble. A German soldier lays out a Nazi flag to smooth it for raising, as smoke billows from fires behind him. Camera pans the bombed and shelled hillsides in the area. Some horses stand on the hillside. A damaged artillery field piece stands amidst rubble. A deep bomb crater is shown. Soviet prisoners walk down from the fortifications. A long line of Soviet prisoners is seen marching under guard. Narrator states they number some 90 thousand.