A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance. A U.S. Navy pilot plays table tennis with other man. A friend of the pilot arrives and says that they would be going to Korea together for a mission. A Grumman F9F Panther aircraft takes off from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. A crew seated in a briefing room. An officer briefs them. The pilot is not sent to the mission. Men standing along the sides of the aircraft carrier. Another F9F aircraft takes off from the carrier. The pilot looks at the aircraft. The aircraft flying in formation.
A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance. A pilot reading a book. A clock on a wall. An announcement on a loudspeaker. A Grumman F9F Panther aircraft lands on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. Men standing along the sides of the aircraft carrier. A man directs the landing of the aircraft. A pilot gets off the aircraft and talks to the previous pilot. Officers and pilots in a briefing room. A pilot locates places on a wall map. The officers talk to the first pilot. An officer says that he is needed for photo reconnaissance, not as a fighter pilot. He checks cameras and boards an airplane. The pilot seated in the cockpit of the aircraft. A U.S. Navy Sikorsky Ho3S-1 Helicopter hovering in the background. A man signals to take off. The airplane takes off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. Aerial views of F9F Panther aircraft in formation in flight over the ocean. A ship underway. The aircraft flies over a target area in Korea. The pilot marks the target area on a map. Soldiers aboard a tank on a field. The F9F Panther aircraft in flight overhead. Huts in the area. The pilot takes photographs of the area. The enemy aims anti aircraft guns at the aircraft. They fire at airplanes. Flak bursts in the sky.
A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance during the Korean War. U.S. Navy pilots and and an officer in a briefing room. They study pictures taken by pilots. The officer briefs them. He marks target areas on the photographs. Men carrying bombs on a trailer of aircraft carrier flight deck. They are loaded in airplanes. An aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. Flags flying giving signals. The aircraft taking off from the carrier, including Douglas AD Skyraider aircraft and F9F Panther jet aircraft. The photograph pilot seated in the cockpit of F9F airplane. The aircraft takes off. F9F Panther airplanes fly in formation overhead. Aerial view of a target area in Korea. Smoke rises from bombardment of the area. The airplanes drop bombs. Heavy columns of smoke rise. The enemy fires anti aircraft guns. The bombs are dropped in the correct area by taking information from the photographs. Includes multiple gun camera views of actual strafing and bombing of targets by U.S. Navy aircraft during the Korean War. Also includes a small amount of dramatized on ground battle scenes.
United States Vice President Richard Nixon and Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay visit Corregidor Island, Philippines. Nixon and Magsaysay exit from Jeeps. They inspect a 12-inch coastal defense gun mounted on a rotating barbette carriage. President Magsaysay and Nixon speaks to a military official. U.S. Vice President's wife Patricia Nixon is accompanied by President Magsaysay’s wife, First Lady Luz Magsaysay.
U.S. and Philippine dignitaries at Corregidor Island, Philippines. Official cars drive past a ruined building at Corregidor Island. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay and others walk down a pier. A sign reads 'Philippine Naval Station Port Facilities'. Sailors on the deck of a ship tied up at a dock. U.S. Vice President's wife Patricia Nixon and Philippines first lady Luz Magsaysay, and others board the ship. A motor boat goes away from the ship.
Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and United States Vice President Richard Nixon visit Corregidor, Philippines. A BA banner to welcome Nixon. Richard Nixon and President Magsaysay emerge from the Malinta Tunnel in Corregidor. They inspect a Battery Way, a 12-inch coastal defense mortar mounted on a rotating barbette carriage. A guide accompanies President Magsaysay and Nixon. Nixon’s straw hat reads “BPS Sta. Maria”. A Filipino boy wearing a Corregidor Island t-shirt waves a small flag. Filipino children play. Nixon and others walk along a pier. A ship at the pier in the background. Ramon Magsaysay’s straw hat is blown by the wind. A Philippine Military personnel catches the president’s hat and returns it. A line of Filipino children, some in military costumes, wave Philippine flags to welcome President Magsaysay and Vice President Nixon. A welcome sign reads “Mabuhay U.S. Vice President Nixon & Party”. Nixon’s wife Pat Nixon and others talk to a group of children. Magsaysay and Nixon shake hands with children.