Animated map shows Houses of Refuge on Florida Atlantic coast, and Coast Guard Stations along the Gulf coast. View of a hurricane on the Gulf coast. Coast Guard Station personnel distributing food to hurricane victims. A victim receiving medical care. Scene shifts to California coast where Coast Guard Stations are found at San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and on the Northwest coast leading up to Puget Sound and Seattle in Washington state. Scene shifts again, to the Great Lakes where many Coast Guard Stations are shown on map, most of them along Lake Michigan. A station is indicated at the Great Falls of the Ohio River in Kentucky.
Camouflage tactics being used to conceal equipment in the United States. Army engineers make a camouflaged net at McGill Field in Florida. An aircraft on a field. The engineers cut a tree on the field. An aircraft taxis and moves under the camouflaged net. Soldiers at a camouflage school construct a camouflaged net to conceal an aircraft. Dispersal method being used to conceal an aircraft. A haystack and a shed are used to conceal pack mules and anti aircraft guns at Fort Bragg in Carolina. (World War II period).
Vietnamese refugees in the United States soon after the fall of Saigon in the Vietnam War. Refugees at a refugee camp located at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida receive food at a mess hall. Vietnamese people putting food on their plates. Vietnamese children holding plates. Tents in the area. People lined up for food. They take food from containers in the dining hall.
Opening scene depicts (dramatized) the presence of German submarines off the Atlantic Coast, delivering Nazi German saboteurs of Operation Pastorius to Long Island, New York and to Florida in 1942. View of German submarines in the ocean. A scientist in a FBI laboratory examines explosives found when the sabotage attempt was uncovered, including blocks of TNT and explosives designed to look like lumps of coal. J. Edgar Hoover describes how the explosives were designed to target American citizens and war industries during World War 2. Paddy wagons with military guards standing on read door platforms are seen entering court facility in Washington DC. View inside the paddy wagons of German agents ("submarine saboteurs") being brought to military trial. View of the accused and the military officers of the court sitting in court during the trial. Military judges are seen seated during the trial proceedings. View of a wall of file cabinets and a hand reaching into a cabinet marked "secret." Past events show Adolf Hitler in meetings with his staff. An animated map shows Nazi symbol overlaying an outline of the United States. A United States flag in the background. The director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) John Edgar Hoover in the United States. He sits at a desk in his office. He talks about enemy agents, Hitler's desire to punish the United States, and the victory of the United States over them.
Launch of the Redstone Guided Missile in the United States. Visitors at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan. The Redstone Guided Missile ready to be launched at the air base. U.S. Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber aircraft being destroyed off the coast of Florida. An aircraft makes a crash landing on the deck of USS Essex in San Diego. It falls into water. A rescue helicopter pulls the aircraft on the deck of USS Essex.
Exterior view of a double walled fallout shelter in Florida during the Cold War. The shelter is built with cinder blocks, for use in the event of nuclear bomb attack in the United States. A view of the interior of the fallout shelter for a family. Food rations seen on shelves. A woman reads the details of design, building instructions, and use of a family fall out shelter, as described in a 1959 pamphlet issued by the United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. She turns a handle on an air ventilation system. The woman examines a Geiger counter for measuring radioactivity levels. Equipment and materials kept on shelves in the background including canned food, emergency water, disposable diaper pads, lantern, first aid kit, and portable radio. View of tools on a wall rack and bunk beds. A stuffed animal toy for a child is on a bed.
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