President Eisenhower visits Athens on peace mission. Huge crowd gathers to cheer him on streets. United States flag. President Eisenhower at the Royal Palace of Iran with Shah of Iran (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi) in front of a portrait. In Iran President Eisenhower's motorcade through Tehran cheered by vast throngs as it rolls over Persian carpets strewn in the streets. A railing collapses. President Eisenhower receives warm reception on his visits to different countries.
World War II events related to Lend Lease program by America to aid war supplies to Russia. Group of American and Russian officers walk down a street and climb onto a platform. The officers include Brigadier General D G Shingler, USA; General S L Scott, Persia; Major General D H Connolly, USA; A Smrnov, Russia; Major General A N Korolyov, USSR; Colonel CP Porter, Iran; Major General II Obrazkov, Russia and Major J Tchernowitz, USA. Colonel Porter and General Connolly make their speeches. Officers on platform listen to the speeches. Russian and American flags on end of the platform. A group of Russian and American officers celebrates USA Day at Borghi Airport in Tehran, Iran. The group listens to the speech by General Obrazkov. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and reporters at the scene. Officials on stand applaud, shake hands and salute. Officers in audience salute. Close up of Audrey A Smirnov, Russian Ambassador to Iran.
Horse drawn rickshaw moves in front of the shops in Iran during WW2. Aerial view of what appears to be a Motor Transport Service camp in Iran. An Iranian man in traditional clothes talking. United States Army trucks drive past a monument to Reza Shah Pahlavi, the first Shahinshah of Iran. A horse carriage driver rests in front of the monument.
Imperial Iranian Army Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Khazaee meets Major General Robert A. McClure, Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Iran. Major General McClure speaks with the Iranian senior military officer. Flags of the United States and Iran hangs behind General McClure. Brigadier General Khazaee listens to General McClure. The Iranian general puts on his glasses and reads document. Major General McClure points to a wall map of Iran, the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.
Street scenes in pre revolution Tehran, Iran. A policeman directs traffic in front of the Bagh-e Melli Gate (Tehran, District 12, Imam Khomeini St, Iran) at the National Garden of Tehran. The policeman stands beside a traffic light. Cars, buses, horse carts, and bicycles are seen in traffic. Iranian worker man uses a primitive rope reel to pull a bucket out of a hole in downtown Tehran. Minarets of the Sepahsalar Mosque (Tehran Province, Tehran, Allameh Sharif-e-Razi, Iran).
The United States sends aircraft to enable Iran to spray against a locust plague, in 1951. Iranian farmers are seen trying to cope with a plague of locusts, seen covering everytning in sight. The farmers chase them with cloths and use watering cans to dispense chemicals. A DC-4 transport aircraft taxis in after landing in Iran. The aircraft carries several small Piper Super Cub 135 airplanes and a croip duster, all equipped for aerial spraying. View of Piper Cub being removed from the DC-4. A bi-wing crop duster airplane being assembled. Several Super Cub aircraft flying low and spraying against locusts. (Note: The DC-4 aircraft is owned by United States Overseas Airlines, a non-scheduled air carrier based in Cape May New Jersey, that was contracted to combat the locust plague. The project was undertaken as part of President Truman's Point Four Program. approved by the United States Congress on June 5, 1950 in the Foreign Economic Assistance Act. )