General Eisenhower inspects porcelain exhibits at an export show in Munich, Germany, not long after the end of World War 2. Several porcelain tea sets and vases seen arranged on tables covered with a table cloth. General Eisenhower inspects a motor bike at exhibition. He answers questions of news men. General Eisenhower and General Joseph T. McNarney leave in open cars. Sign reading 'Export Schau' in German and 'Export Exhibition' in English.
Long lines of depositors seen in front of the Dresdener Bank. The police keeps vigil on the crowd. Disorders are averted.
Local Pacific Islanders are seen in wooden dugout boats in the vicinity of U.S. Navy warships, in a bay during World War 2. Closeup of a man in one canoe with an outrigger. A boy sitting in one carrying a box of fruit. U.S. military engineers aboard a ship, look at shore with binoculars. Sailors in stern of a boat flying Naval ensign. Sailors on a barge, transport the fuselage and float of a OS2U Kingfisher Floatplane to an island, where they bring it ashore amidst grove of palm trees. Sailors roll 55gallon drums of fuel shore from a barge. A jeep is lowered over the side of a ship and driven ashore. Supplies, including foodstuffs, are brought ashore. Cartons containing canned corned beef; canned cherries, and many other foods, are stacked up in a warehouse. Engineers chart water depth in a bay as they mark boundaries for construction of a seaplane base. Caterpillar tractors level trees and clear land for the base. Soldiers install a 155mm long tom gun in position for coastal defense. Marines prepare temporary shelters of palm fronds. A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina seaplane flies overhead.
Newsreel 'Fashion parade'. Italian women wearing vintage Flapper girl dresses and long gloves. Women twirl as they enter a room. Models parade in elegant Rome saloons in the latest designs of Italian fashion designers. A model shows off her balloon dress. Stylish evening gowns with balloon skirts are given more emphasis.
German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf-110 twin engine heavy fighter aircraft in flight during World War II. The plane flies low over field and attacks aircraft on the ground with cannon fire. Gun camera footage and point of view from inside Bf-110 aircraft during attack. Aerial view of Bf-110 in formation. Next scene shows close up aerial views of a formation of German Junkers Ju 86 bombers in flight. A pilot seen in the cockpit. Fire and smoke seen. Squadron of Ju 86 in formation, returning from a mission. At the German home base, A Junkers JU-52 is forced to make a landing on one wheel when the other seems to be lost due to enemy fire or accident. The pilot skillfully keeps the aircraft rolling on the one good wheel as long as possible, and then it falls and spins to the side. The crew evacuates and no one is injured, although the aircraft is seriously damaged. The Luftwaffe crew looks over the damage.
Cowboy expert shows young boys some tricks with the Australian bull-whip in Australia. A horse in the background. Several boys gather around the cowboy. He demonstrates use of the bull whip and teaches boys how to use the whip. He performs daring stunts where he breaks small sticks being held between the hands of two boys. Two boys hold a long piece between their teeth, facing each other, and the cowboy breaks it in the middle. They perform the stunt again, with the boys leaning their heads much closer so the gap is smaller. He whips an apple off a boy's head. The cowboy expert snaps a penny off a boy's extended tongue.
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