A USAF film report on AN/FPS-85 Spacetrack Radar shows the installation and checkout of equipment in the structure located at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida, United States. An array monitor display and a technician checks the operational status of individual module. Two technicians install a video display console. A U.S. Air Force C-131B Samaritan military transport aircraft parked at a base. The aircraft in flight. A structure at the Eglin AFB. Vintage 1960s electronic control terminals and equipment for missile defense during the Cold War. A technician operates a signal processor. The technician presses buttons on the processor. Technicians operate a radar programmer. A technician seated on a chair operates Bendix 101 computer. A document is printed in a printing machine. The technician speaks on a phone. Another technician carries a document. Technicians operate IBM 7044 computer and shows the memory drum and high speed printer. A technician operates the controls. A screen on the computer shows the position of all unknown objects. The technician notes down the phased array radar data. Exterior of building in Colorado Springs with sign "NORAD Combat Operations Center" at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado. USAF personnel come out of the building of North American Air Defense Center (NORAD). Observers and technicians in the Spacetrack Control Center seated at their tracking stations. An observer speaks on a phone. The observers keep a track on all targets and missiles using the NORAD aerospace warning and tracking systems. Exterior view of the FPS-85 radar array structure at Eglin AFB (The site C-6 Air Force Space Command radar station). A technician operates Bendix 101 computer. Technicians at work in the center. The array radar. Animation depicts the future of the space and capacity of AN/FPS-85 Spacetrack Radar to track objects. Vintage 1960s animation showing various satellite systems in space orbit.
Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to soldiers in Lich, Germany during World War II. The Commanding General of the Third U.S. Army George S Patton, Jr. salutes. General Patton, Major Commander General of U.S. 5th Division S Leroy Irwin, and Pvt. Harold A Garman of Albion III wearing a Medical Corp helmet, the recipient of medal, stand together. The U.S. soldiers march. A building in the background. General Patton, General Irwin and Pvt. Garman standing. The soldiers march carrying guns on their shoulders. General Patton pats the shoulder of Pvt. Garman. General Leroy Irwin stands in the background. General Patton shakes hand with Pvt. Garman. Medal and ribbon around the soldier's neck.
The Medal of Honor awarded to a soldier in Lich, Germany during World War 2. Pvt. Harold A. Garman of Albion, Illinois, stands wearing a Medical Corps helmet. U.S. soldiers parade in the background. A marching band plays music. Troops march shouldering arms. The soldiers wear Medical Corps helmets. The soldiers stand in formation. Pvt. Harold A Garman walks forward escorted by an officer. The officer salutes. Commanding General of U.S. 5th Division, S. Leroy Irwin and Commanding General of the Third U.S. Army, George S Patton, Jr. come forward escorted by a U.S. Army officer. Pvt. Harold A. Garman and both the Generals stand at attention. The officer reads the award citation. General Patton presents the medal of Honor to Pvt. Garman. General Irwin shakes hand with Pvt. Garman. General Irwin, General Patton and Pvt. Garman stand together.
United States troops in Heilbronn, Germany during World War II. The soldiers lower a boat in Neckar river. A soldier holds a rope and ties it to the boat. Soldiers of U.S. 36th Combat Engineers under cover of smoke screen construct rubber ponton steel treadway bridge. The soldier in a boat underway and gets off from the boat at the bridge. Infantrymen of U.S. 100th Division, 399th Infantry Regiment hidden behind a wrecked building. A soldier aims with a gun and fires. Smoke rises in the background. The guard engineers at work. A African American group of U.S. 31st Engineering Battalion operate smoke generators. A smoke screen is laid. An African American soldier opens the generator to lay the smoke screen. U.S. soldiers on a jeep move through a wreckage town. An African American engineer operates the smoke generator and another engineer walks up to him. The engineer with a cigar in his mouth works with the smoke generator in the battle area.
U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seen in American Red Cross uniform speaking to an audience (unseen) during World War 2. She tells a joke about an American soldier fighting in in the Pacific, against the Japanese. Montage of unconnected scenes. Eleanor Roosevelt entering a building displaying a large American Flag; conversing with Vice President Richard Nixon;in a gathering outdoors with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru;meeting with children in a school; speaking at a Democratic National Convention. Pictures of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, as a child, circa 1891; with her father in 1892; At the home of her Grandmother, with a pony; Visiting the home of her Uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, at Sagamore Hill, Long Island. Theodore Roosevelt rowing a boat. Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt in 1902. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (her 5th cousin) in a top hat. The two of them courting. Picture of Sara Roosevelt, Franklin's mother, with Franklin and Eleanor in 1904, the year of their engagement. The couple's formal wedding picture. President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, at their wedding in 1905. Scenes of Eleanor Roosevelt with her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt, in the early years of Eleanor's marriage to Franklin Roosevelt.
Norwegian workers get off from train and ferry in Germany during World War II. The Norwegian workers in a train stand at a platform. The workers in the train wave. The workers on a ferry and the ferry underway. The soldiers stand in a squad at a dock. The workers get off from the ferry. The workers with their luggage enter a building. A sign reads 'Welcome in Germany'. The workers sit around a table and eat food.
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