View of President John F. Kennedy's motor convoy approaching from a distance along the Vandenberg AFB roads in California,Unites States. Two minuteman missiles can be seen in the backdrop of the passing convoy. The Presidential convoy moves along the Air Force Base roads.
American ace fighter pilot, Colonel Francis Gabreski, returns home to California after shooting down a record number of enemy planes in Korea and World War II. Colonel Gabreski receives a heroic welcome on his arrival. (Korean War period.)
1952 Miss Universe contestants participate in a parade in Long Beach, California. The contestants ride floats of their respective countries. Miss South Africa Catherine Edwina Higgins waving at the crowd. Women on top of a Universal- International Pictures float. Miss Uruguay Gladys Rubio Fajardo, Miss Sweden Anne Marie Thistler, and Miss Finland Armi Kuusela, on small floats with large shell designs. A large crowd gathers and cheers. The Contestants line up for photo shoot and pose before the camera.
Three Soviet Airmen land on an airfield in San Jacinto,California after flying over the North Pole 6,700 miles without a stop from Moscow. Large crowd gathers at the airfield and greet their arrival.
Perry O. Stoughton sets on a 1000-mile voyage to San Diego on his sailing raft from Crescent City in California. Canned food and a barrel of drinking water is aboard the raft. Large crowd gathers at the peer to bid him farewell.
Forklifts loads supply crates onto pallets in a warehouse at the Travis Air Force Base in California. 'Red Ball USA' written on the crates. Man checks the crates. Pallets of supplies loaded into Flying Tiger Airline's Boeing 707.
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