A U.S. military convoy of jeeps on a road. Soldiers seated in the jeeps. The soldiers are flagged down by Military Police (MP) in a jeep. The two jeeps stop at a barricade. They approach a shack coffee shop called Uncle Dan's Doughnuts run by the MPs. Sign boards reads 'Stag Night Tonight' and 'Unescorted ladies not Permitted'. MPs and a soldier stand and drink coffee and eat doughnuts outside the shack. The soldiers talk. Sign boards read 'Mud and straw houses for sale'. The soldier reads signs about 'Turkey Sandwiches', 'Formal Dance' and 'Military Abbreviations' put up at the coffee shop. The U.S. Army soldiers get into their jeep and leave.
Soldiers take a shower in a make shift hot water shower room in Korea during the Korean War. Soldiers approach the shower cabin. Sign reads 'Macon Springs'. Soldiers stand with towels and clothes. They remove their clothing and helmet and put them in a make shift locker room. A soldier turns the knob and waits. Another soldier operates the power plant. The power plant consists of an airplane oil pump and military jeep. The soldier begins the jeep ignition. Water from a large puddle on the ground is pumped to the makeshift heater and through pipes into the shower. Soldier showers under the flowing water. Interior of the ingenious hot water shower room.
U.S. soldiers eat hot food for dinner and prepare for the night in Korea during the Korean War. Soldiers approach a tent on a hill. Sign reads 'Kitchen'. Prepared food is packed into Marmite cans to keep it hot. South Koreans carry these cans to the front lines. Men with the cans on their backs, climb up barb wire bordered pathways. They reach the front line and help unpack the food. Soldiers heat the food and serve it out in plates. White and African American soldiers in chow line. Mashed potato, fruit salad in plates. Soldiers fill mugs of coffee and juice. They sit and eat at dinner time. Hills with enemy positions. Soldiers sit nd wait for the night. A tank returns from no man's land at dusk. Soldiers prepare for the night. They raise roadblocks and barricades to seal off lines. Soldiers in position with their guns and artillery. A Turkish soldier patrols with his bayonet. Other UN soldiers including South Koreans ready with their rifles in trenches. Soldier smokes a cigarette. Soldiers run uphill and fire at night. Machine gun fire. Captain Carl Zimmerman talks about U.S. soldiers in various outposts the world over. He talks about the next episode of 'The Big Picture', a weekly U.S. Army television report.
An oil tanker at a port in the Middle East. An oil tanker at a Red Sea port. Officers at the port. Crew members pull hoses. Oil tanker takes oil at the port. A man climbs up a ladder. Hoses laid at the port. A military officer is greeted by nuns.
Prime Minister of Turkey, Adnan Menderes, arrives in Europe during a trip that includes stops in Stockholm, London, and Paris. An aircraft of the Scandinavian airlines taxis after landing. Prime Minister Menderes gets off the aircraft. Officials gathered to welcome him. Prime Minister with an official inside the room. Prime Minister Menderes along with officials as he arrives at a building. Menderes confers with an official. Menderes shakes hands with an official as he leaves.
Officials of the Kuwait Oil Company show models of planned Arabian-American oil company facilites to Arthur C. Clarke in Kuwait. Cars move down a highway. Oil company officials in an office look at models of a future Arabian-American Oil company facility. A sign reads 'Welcome. Kuwait Oil Company'. A model of the oil plant. Officials confer with Author, inventor, and futurist Arthur C. Clarke, who had been invited by Kuwait Oil Officials to explore the region and write about his experiences. Oil company officials and Arthur C. Clarke look at the model of an oil derrick.