Airman Felix Waitkus leaves for Lithuania but crashes in Ireland. Waitkus takes off from Floyd Bennett Airport, New York for Kaunas, Lithuania. Fog and failing gas results in a crash in a field near Ballinrobe, Ireland.
1963 Miss America pageant at the Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Participants of the 'Miss America -1963' beauty contest pose and walk on the ramp. An audience watch the beauty contest. A panel of judges give remarks. Miss Ohio Lass, Jacquelyn Mayer receives the title of 'Miss America -1963'. Jacquelyn Mayer is crowned. Photographers take photos. On the next day, Jacquelyn Mayer smiles and waves.
Scenes of Norway and Italy. A farmer in Italy using a hoe. An elderly gentleman describing the hardships of the Italians. Scene shifts to Ireland, and farmers digging potatoes or tubers. An old Irishman describing the problems of the Irish prompting immigration to America early in the 20th century.
Marshall Plan projects related to agriculture in Ireland. Ancient ruins in countryside. Men quarrying limestone with hand tools. They break it off and it tumbles down the hillside and is loaded into truck by a crane. American trucks with dispersing mechanism for spreading limestone. A truck spreading limestone on a farm field. Farm views: Men working in a grain field and pitching hay into a stack. A young boy on top of the stack packs the hay down. A farm cottage and man with donkey. A person in a tractor. Views of husbandry where ducks, pigs and cows are seen. Scenes of Dublin, with heavy traffic, double-decker buses, cars and bicycles.
RMS Lusitania ship's survivors on a ship in Ireland. Men come on the ship carrying bags. People sit on the deck. Children sit and one of them put her hand on another's shoulder. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Funeral procession of Irish soldiers in Ireland. Dead bodies of nine Irish soldiers loaded onto trucks which drive past a large crowd on either side of a street. Caskets draped in United Nations flags carry the bodies of those who lost their lives during Congo ambush. A band plays as the trucks move past. The trucks arrive at a cemetery. Soldiers fire rifles in salute. Civilians mourn the death of Irish soldiers.