Berlin, Germany during Berlin Crisis. USA tank compound. Tanks parked in the compound and moving out. Soldier on a tank. Turret of the tank traversing. Tank Commander looks through binoculars and talks on radio. Different bear names on the tanks.
Points of interest in Berlin, Germany. Airman starts magnetic tape drives. The drives in operation. C-131B taxis right as seen through window of the EDP room. Tempelhof airport as USA tanks move.
Points of interest in Berlin, Germany. Refugees stand outside a building with baggage. They wait for the transportation at Marienfelder Camp. A bus arrives. They get into the bus with their baggage and the bus moves. People seated on benches outside buildings. Other people walk. Vehicles pass on the street.
WC-121N of U.S. Navy Early Warning Squadron Four (VW-4) starts engines, taxis out, and takes off from the U.S. Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. Aerial view of the aircraft in flight. The film title,"Hurricane Hunters," and credits appear. A VW-4 crew is seen bracing themselves inside a WC-121N aircraft as it encounters turbulence on a mission.
Scenes of hurricanes and related damage. A U.S. fletcher class destroyer and then two U.S. Heavy cruisers making way in very heavy seas. Huge waves blowing over a waterfront. Palm trees blowing and deciduous trees falling to hurricane winds. A man attempting to walk against hurricane force winds and rain. Hurricanes battering an airfield. Wind and water driving against a hotel, and downed wires exploding in rain filled street. A man in waist deep water. Scenes of severe flooding, including a flooded convertible car Aerial views of heavy cumulus clouds. Homes and vehicles completely inundated by flood waters. A derailed railroad train. Men combing through debris in aftermath of a hurricane. Completely destroyed homes.
U.S. Naval officers walk across the lawn at the the Aviation Building, also known as the Fritz Hotel in Miami, Florida. Among tenants in the building is the Weather Bureau office and joint National Hurricane Center. Their WSR-57 radar antenna can be seen atop the building. Scene shifts to inside the Joint Hurricane center where theree Naval officers and a sailor are reviewing weather data. An animated map shows how the Caribbean regions are accessed by Hurricane Hunter aircraft from Jacksonville, Florida, and Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, respectively.