Flight of Cierva autogyro from Cuatro Vientos Aerodrome in Madrid, Spain. Cierva autogyro taxis at the Cuatro Vientos Aerodrome. The autogyro takes off. The autogyro in flight over a field. Men stand on the field. Autogyro lands on the ground. Men stand in front of the autogyro. A hangar in the background. The autogyro taxis and takes off. The autogyro lands on the field. Men walk towards the landing autogyro. The pilot in the cockpit of autogyro. The autogyro warms up. Men in the foreground. The pilot starts the engine and United States autogyro takes off. The autogyro in flight over the field. The autogyro crashes into ground. Men look at the damaged autogyro.
Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja appointed as the Prime Minister after winning a revolution in Madrid, Spain. Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja hugs an officer. He comes out of a building with officials.
President Dwight D Eisdenhower visits Spain. Honor Guard and dignitaries at the Torrejon Air Force Base in Madrid. Spanish Officers and dignitaries arrive and walk past the Honor Guard. The President's plane taxis on the runway after the landing at the Air Force Base. The aircraft taxis to the parking area. President Eisenhower debarks the aircraft and is greeted by General Francisco Franco. The President stands on the speaker's platform. He reviews the Spanish troops.
U.S. President Dwight D Eisdenhower visits Spain. Spanish General Francisco Franco delivers a speech as President Eisenhower looks on from the speaker's stand at Torrejon Air Force Base in Madrid. The President gives a speech. The President and the General enter a sedan. Dignitaries leave the area at the Air Force Base.
A ceremony at an airfield in Madrid, Spain. Bishops conduct a Catholic mass on a stage set in front of a hangar. Soldiers and civilians attend mass. Spanish General Francisco Franco and soldiers at attention. Priests praying in front of a Virgin Mary statue. The General and other officers at a table. General Franco decorates and congratulates Spanish soldiers. The crowd of civilians applauds. The General reviews the Spanish troops. (World War II period).
Documentary titled the "'Rehearsal of War." Film begins showing shells bursting in hills as a soldier runs for cover in foreground. Next, a Republican Soldier helps a wounded comrade walking along a road. More views of combat in Spain. View of the State, War, and Navy Building in Washington, DC. Sign over a doorway reading: "Chief of Staff." Inside, General Malin Craig, in civilian clothes, flanked by two officials, examines a report entitled, "Analysis of the "Brihuega Campaign." The document also reads: "Guadalajara Front." and is dated 3/27/1937. A document (Classified "Confidential") is shown that discusses the capabilities of the French 20mm Moteur canon firing 300-400 shots per minute with explosive shells.Glimpse of an Army officer's hand marking a map in a book. On his table is a book entitled,"Two World's in Conflict, We or They." Flags of Germany and Italy are seen. Closeup of Benito Mussolini in arms-crossed pose. Italian crowd cheering. View of Adolf Hitler standing with Marshal Hermann Goering, German Army Chief of Staff, Werner von Fritsch, and Rudolf Hess (just barely seen). Animated map of Europe shows Germany and Italy with desired expansion of both. Mussolini walks with military officers past a large Italian trimotor transport aircraft. A field filled with Italian light tanks armed with one small gun each. Each is crewed by one man. A parade of German Sd.Kfz.7 halftrack transporters filled with troops and each pulling an 88mm Flak gun on a Sonderanhänger 201 trailer. Brief view of formation of high wing monoplanes with fixed landing gears, flying overhead. German troops in realistic field exercise of infantry and Panzer I Ausf. A tanks. Closeup of tank with troops. Flame throwing tanks firing in a desert area. Adolf Hitler addressing an audience, finishes with a half-hearted Nazi salute. U.S. Military officers discuss Axis blitzkrieg tactics charting reports from the Spanish campaign on maps. View of Saint Jean de Luz, France, where U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Claude Bowers, is seen on the telephone at the Miramar Hotel where he has taken temporary refuge. Final scenes show a 4-stacker U.S. Navy warship patrolling in Spanish waters and the Captain and officers inside aboard ship reviewing maps and positions.