Scenes of American airlift techniques for mass troop and equipment movement during the Cold War. Map shows plan for movement of a full combat ready division (16,000 men) to Europe. Various USAF MATS (Military Air Transport Service) aircraft seen: Low aerial view of long line of C-130 aircraft parked on airfield. U.S. soldiers boarding long line of USAF airplanes. View of a Boeing C-135 Stratolifter taking off. Scenes of American soldiers reading and playing cards during air travel. Aerial view of three F-105 fighter aircraft in flight. U.S. Army soldiers exiting C-124 aircraft through large rear doors and loading trucks with equipment. A long convoy of U.S. tanks and armored equipment and troop carrier vehicles on European roads as soldier directs movement of the same.
Communist leader Fidel Castro and Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona with others in Havana, Cuba. Women and nurses in dresses marching in a parade. Fidel Castro watches the parade. Argentinian Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is also seen with Castro. Fidel Castro attends the first Congreso Latinoamericano de Juventudes at the Cerro stadium (Estadio Latinoamericano, 4J9F+FJ6, La Habana, Cuba) in Havana. Castro comes on stage. Castro announces the decision to nationalize North American companies in Cuba as a response to United States’ economic sanctions. Fidel Castro sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba. People carry banners in a procession.
A damaged house during the battle of Hue in Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive. Soldiers running. Piled sacks near a wall. Soldiers with guns. A soldier talk on radio set. People fleeing Hue. People crossing a bridge. People go on bicycles. A board reads "BO-TU-LENH-SU-DOAN". Soldiers walk on road. AARVN counter attack on the citadel with F-4 close air support. Dead bodies of Viet Cong soldiers and their weapons in rubble. (Vietnam War period).
French Foreign Minister George Bidault, Russian Foreign Minister Molotov, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Bevin, United States Secretary of State James F Byrnes along with Senators Connally and Vandenberg arrives for the Foreign Ministers Council at Luxembourg Palace, Paris. They are having discussion in the conference room.
Merchant ship passing USS Enterprise aircraft carrier. Personnel in catwalk. Scene of flight deck. Aircraft parked forward. Scene of F-4J aircraft. Scene of bridge area, personnel on watch. Scene of Helmsman and Lee helmsman. Engine order telegraph on bridge. Lee helmsman wearing phones. Officer on bridge looking through bridge window with binoculars. Third officer enters scene with binoculars. Other officers appear. Scene of bridge area. Navigator leaning on chart. Personnel seen throughout bridge area. Helmsman, Lee helmsman and other personnel on bridge. Man on watch on bridge. A man writing on status board. Officer and telephone talker chatting on bridge. Bridge window in background. Silhouette view. Officers on bridge. Showing other personnel on bridge in silhouette. Side view, telephone talker talking on phones on bridge. Silhouette view, officer looking down over radar on bridge. Personnel on sponson deck in silhouette. Calm sea seen in the background.
"USS Enterprise" painted on side of an A-4E aircraft on flight deck of USS Enterprise. Words "USS Enterprise", below that, "Navy" painted on side of an A-6A aircraft. Letters "VF-92", below that "Navy", painted up above in the corner. USS "Enterprise" painted on side of an F-4 aircraft. "USS Enterprise", below that "Navy" painted on side of an A-3B aircraft. Emblems (patches) of Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) and Navy Fighter Squadron (VA-113) "Stingers" are displayed. VA-113 and logo, a "Bee" with a stinging tail is also seen painted on A-3B aircraft. Words "USS Enterprise", below that words "Navy" painted on the side of an E-2A aircraft. Words "The Big E" painted in white letters on side of a ship's helcopter.
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