Howard Hughes speaks to a group of men at the Burbank airport in California, where the TWA Lockheed Constellation aircraft is preparing to take off on a public demonstration flight.. Members of the press board and the aircraft takes off. Plane in flight and passengers inside the plane.
A Trans World Airlines Lockheed Constellation plane in public demonstration flight with mountains in the background in California, United States. Aircraft landing gear is lowered in demonstration, while cruising aloft.
A large group of men boards a Trans World Airlines Lockheed Constellation passenger aircraft at Burbank Airport in California, for a public demonstration ride. Aerial view of the flight as it is filmed from another aircraft flying over the California mountains. (Glimpses of chase plane cockpit floor are accidentally photographed as camera is lowered while still running.)
Rome, Italy during World War II. A map of Italy shows various places. German infantry and cavalry units march ahead in Italy after the capitulation to Allies of Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Soldiers in an armored personnel carrier approach the Italian Alps. Nazi officers, including field marshal Erwin Rommel, are seen outside a building. German soldiers mounted on a tank move into an Italian city as people wave to them. Soldiers fire, explosion occurs, and a pillar of smoke rises up. German forces occupy Reggio, Padua, and Milan. Germans in an armored personnel carrier approach the Arch of Peace/Porta Sempione (Piazza Sempione, 20154 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan. Soldiers fight in the streets of Rome. A building with a Nazi sign on its gates. German soldiers celebrate after taking over the city. They smoke. Soldiers with women outside a building and pull a kitten from their uniforms to present to her. Soldiers in a Jeep enter Rome with the Colosseum in the background.
Nazi German paratroopers rescue Benito Mussolini from confinement in the Campo Imperatore Hotel at the Gran Sasso massif (Gran Sasso mountain, the highest peak in the Apennines range, Italy). Military trucks are seen driving up the mountain road toward the Gran Sasso mountain. German soldiers walk along the road. Lieutenant Georg Freiherr von Berlepsch, leader of the 1st Company, Fallschirmjäger (German Air Force paratroopers) briefs the troopers. Next the troopers are seen crossing a plateau as they head toward the Campo Imperatore buildings. Closeups of the buildings. Benito Mussolini in black overcoat and hat, seen leaving the hotel in the company of his German rescuers. Paratrooper reporting by radio. View of Alpine cable car system used to depart from the mountain. Major Otto-Harald Mors (sometimes incorrectly written as Harald-Otto Mors) commander of the Parachute Regiment salutes Lieutenant von Berlepsch, as his Company returns from the mountain. They shake hands. German Colonel Otto Skorzeny, operations commander, walks with group escorting Mussolini. The Mussolini and Colonel Skorzeny climb aboard a German Luftwaffe Fieseler Fi 156C-3/Trop Storch short takeoff and landing liaison aircraft. Troopers wave as the aircraft takes off from the mountainside. Complete change of scene shows a German Junkers, Ju-52 aircraft in flight overhead. Next, Adolf Hitler is seen rendering a traditional military hand salute as he stands, watching the airplane taxi and park at the airfield serving his Wolf's Lair headquarters near Rastenburg on the Eastern Front. Mussolini steps from the plane and is warmly greeted by Hitler. His son-in-law, Count Gian Galeazzo Ciano, embraces and kisses Mussolini, who then steps into a mercedes touring car displaying both Italian and Nazi symbols. Arriving at the Wolf's Lair, Mussolini is greeted by German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Hitler escorts Mussolini through the building. Next, the two are seen leaving the building and driving back to the airport, where Hitler and entourage bid farewell to Mussolini, who climbs aboard the Ju-52, again. Hitler waves as the plane taxis out.
'What to do in a gas attack' A dramatization shows the precautions to be taken in event of a gas attack and the first aid measures to be used after the gas exposure. Newspaper headlines about the gas attacks, a gas alarm sounds. Plane drops gas bombs and smoke rises. Various precautions to be taken in case of a gas attack like closing the windows and other openings in the house. A man and woman move upstairs in the house to escape fumes. In case of liquid gas attack, gas spreads and men of the United States Citizens Defense Core neutralize the gas. Men wearing protective clothing and masks wipe off the gas. A sign reads 'gas mustard'. Men neutralize the crops in a field after a gas attack. After a liquid gas attack a man removes his clothes and shoes before entering the house as a preventive measure. Removes liquid gas from the skin by blotting with a tissue, tissue thrown in a bin. Exposed skin cleaned and rinsed with bleaching solution. A baking soda solution containing water used to irrigate eyes. Man takes a shower and soaks himself up. Nose irrigated with baking soda solution. Man gargles with the solution. Man smokes a cigarette and lies down to prevent exertion. A man of the United States Citizens Defense Core takes away the clothes lying outside the house for treating them. (World War II period).
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