Soong Mei-ling or Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, leaves for Chongqing (Chungking), China from the United States. Madame Chiang with American Red Cross girls. She walks and speaks to the girls. Madame Chiang and the girls standing at the shore of a beach. Soong Mei-ling meets the U.S. officers and Generals. She is escorted by a Chinese official. Soong Mei-ling enters a car. She gets out of the car and climbs up a ladder. Soong Mei-ling boards C-54 Skymaster. The C-54 takes off for Chongqing. The aircraft in flight. A pilot and crew at controls. A crew member plotting a graph. The pilot at the controls talks. The crew members and the pilot talking.
Operation Sea Orbit of the U.S. Navy's Task Force One, during its round the world two-month cruise. Nuclear powered surface ships seen underway: Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), a guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9), USS Bainbridge (CGN-25), a guided missile cruiser. U.S. Navy personnel on the bridge of a U.S. Navy ship. Visiting dignitaries emerge from a U.S. Navy aircraft aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65). A dignitary inspects the Enterprise honor guard. The ship commander and other men including the dignitary sit in reviewing stand to watch the fire power demonstration. The aircraft being readied for takeoff from the deck of USS Enterprise. A signal officer gives signal. F-4 aircraft take off from carrier deck. Aircraft and crew members on the deck in the foreground. Another F-4 takes off and then a F-11 Tiger takes off. The visitors on the deck. The aircraft fly in formation. The dignitaries watching the aircraft in flight. A close up of the aircraft flying in formation. A sidewinder missile is fired and hits its target. Explosion in air. An aircraft in flight. Zuni rockets are fired at a water-based target and a big splash is seen. The Foreign dignitaries, officer and Commander of Task Force One, Rear Admiral Bernard M. Strean, seated on the deck talking to the visiting guests. Scene from R&R as the task force Navy personnel shop for different items from a shop in Pakistan. A sailor tries out a bullwhip. A snake charmer plays an instrument and does tricks with a cobra snake. The personnel look at a horse. They sit on horses and ride horses. The Nuclear Task Force One ships underway. A bow of a ship cutting through the water. People stand on a dock to welcome the Nuclear Task Force One on arrival in Norfolk Virginia. The Ship arrives at the dock. Several views of the waiting families waving and smiling. The Navy personnel disembark the ship. They meet their relatives and children. A sailor kisses a woman. U.S. Navy sailors reuniting with family members.
The second annual mobilization and review of U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Division Two, in the 13th Naval District, during World War 2. The first thing seen is a portion of a letter from a Coast Guard SPARS woman to someone at home. She mentions having spoken to Mrs. F.D.R. Scene shifts to The mobilization and review event on Lake Washington, in Seattle, Washington which involves some 300 boats belonging to members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, that parade in review. Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox (not seen) along with high ranking naval officers, and the First Lady, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, are part of the reviewing party, as guests of Mr. O.D. Fisher, aboard his yacht. (The Coast Guard Auxiliary identification, CGA 2444, is seen clearly painted on its bow.) It is anchored off the north shore of Madronna Park Beach in Lake Washington. Views of the yacht with Mrs. Roosevelt and several admirals aboard. A woman officer, in the Coast Guard SPARS, is invited to chat with Mrs. Roosevelt. She sits down next to her. At one point, they both wave toward the camera. Later, two women SPARS stand on shore and converse with Mrs. Roosevelt, as she stands aboard the yacht.
Events leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. A helicopter lands on the White House lawn in Washington DC. Scenes of Cuba and emergence of Castro in recent prior years. Beach views in Cuba. A military parade in an earlier time, with Cuban troops marching in front of the Monument to the Battleship Maine. Next scene shows desecration and destruction of the Battleship Maine Monument in Cuba.. A crowd of cheering Cuban people as Fidel Castro enters Havana, Cuba in 1959. Exterior view of United Nations building in New York City. Fidel Castro and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev embrace during meeting in New York in September 1960. Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union Anastas Mikoyan deplanes and is greeted by Fidel Castro in Havana. A trade agreement between Russia and Cuba signed by Fidel Castro. Russian cargo ships en route to Havana. Cuban refugees in small boats. A map depicts proximity of Cuba to the U.S. U.S. surveillance aircraft heading for Cuba. A sign reads 'HQ. 4080 S W Intelligence Division'. Men examine reconnaissance photographs of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The photographs show transports and tents for fueling and maintenance. A sign reads 'Strategic Missile Facility GAM 77 Combined Systems'. U.S. missiles rolled out of hangar and readied for emergency. A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber aircraft takes off from an airfield. U.S. Navy ships in the Atlantic Ocean. A U.S. submarine underway at sea.
A public television program by the U.S. Army entitled 'The Big Picture.' U.S. troops are seen hunkered down and looking through binoculars in a defensive position in Korea, during the Korean War. American soldiers riding atop a Sherman tank on a city street in Germany, during World War II. Ski troops moving across snowy hill in Alaska. U.S. Army amphibious assault training on a beach in Puerto Rico. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, narrator, speaks about America's defense against threat of atomic attack in these times of lukewarm peace. View of mountainous region in Alaska. A cluster of Cup'it Eskimo dwellings is seen on Nunivak Island, in the Bering Sea. Several of the local inhabitants are fishing through holes cut in the ice. Vapor trails are seen from Soviet aircraft flying at high altitude. A sign on a tarpaulin displaying logo of the Army Signal Corps, reads,"Alaska Communication System, Long Distance Commercial Telephone-Telegraph." A tracked vehicle carries a soldier to a facility posting a sign reading, "Alaska Communications System Receiver Station." Several tall antennas loom above the site. The soldier, dressed in arctic gear, steps from the tracked vehicle and walks past several snow shoes, standing upright in the snow, to enter a white wooden building. Inside, a man in civilian clothes works at a battery of telecomunications equipment. He transmits a message about the aircraft sighting, to the Alaska Communication System facility in Fairbanks Alaska (briefly shown) by means of a telegraph key. From there it is relayed to a Signal Corps facility, shown, in Washington, DC. A soldier is seen Inside that facility, in a room filled with computers and telecommunications equipment. A Sergeant handles paper tape messages being sent and received by teletype. Another soldier plugs connections into a communications switchboard. Next, the camera pans over the entrance to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. More views of soldiers attending banks of teletype machines. Animated map displays paths of orders being transmitted to U.S. Air Defense Centers in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta. View from control room, of several U.S. Air Force F-94 Fighter Interceptor aircraft on an airfield ramp. A controller activates a Klaxon horn and pilots on alert, in the Fighter Interceptor Squadron ready room, jump up and scramble to their aircraft. A pair of F-94s taking off. One is number 51-5385. Next, a U.S. Navy F-9 fighter plane is seen taking off from an airfield. It displays tail code AE. It is followed by another F-9 aircraft.
Landscapes and monuments in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Views of beach and landscape. A large tower and a man stands on the tower. Official shed at harbor. A fishing boat is anchored. Sign: 'Jean and Patricia' and 'Mary and Julia' on fishing boats. Boats underway. Views of city and traffic on Main Street in Gloucester Massachusetts. A man walks down on road. Employees walking out of Harbor Cove Fisheries packaging plant. People walking outside of stores and shops in town. Pedestrians walking. Cars and trucks moving on South Stacy Boulevard. View of the Man at the Wheel, Fisherman's Memorial Cenotaph. View of memorials and grave stones in a town cemetery of Gloucester.
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