Film 'Milestone in Missilry' shows outdoor static display of many missiles near museum at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. A V-2 rocket on launch pad and then firing and launching. Nike Ajax antiaircraft missile is launched and destroys a QB-17 drone target aircraft. Technicians look through telescopic machine. Camera records the missile flight. Several more missile launches and strikes are recorded, including a couple targeting T-33 jet fighter drones. Nike Hercules missile strikes T-33 drone. All of the tests were monitored, tracked and filmed by elaborate machine.
Large group of men, women, and children, dressed in their best attire, at an ice cream social in a garden. They walk about to provide motion for the movie camera, as they eat their ice cream. Later, men of the group play leapfrog, cheered on by amused women and girls.
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Retired Admiral Arthur W. Radford, and his wife, arrive by C-118 aircraft and are met by Air Force officers at U.S Air Force Base, Wiesbaden, Germany. After exchanging greetings with their host officers, The Radfords enter a car and and are driven away. The rear of the car displays four stars, indicating the retired admiral's rank.
The Aisne Marne Operation in France. U.S. 7th Field Artillery soldiers besides a pond. One soldier stands in the stream besides a broken branch and washes his legs, hands and body. Two soldiers sit besides the stream and one stand besides them with some clothes in his hand. (World War I, World War 1, WWI, WW1)
United States Marine helicopter, carrying Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter, Indira Nehru (Indira Gandhi), lands at the Disneyland heliport in Anaheim, California. Prime Minister Nehru and daughter meets Walt Disney (Walt Elias Disney), who conducts them, personally, on a tour of Disneyland Park. Tomorrowland rides and attractions are seen. Prime Minister Nehru rides beside Walt Disney in a small open train that conveys them past waterfalls high on Matterhorn Mountain, and a recreation of an American Indian encampment. Nehru is seen waving to crowds at the park. Later, (on his 72nd Birthday) the Prime Minister and his daughter are feted at a reception by Mr. Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and wife Ina Harriet Hughes. Hollywood actors Edward G. Robinson and Charlton Heston are among the persons seen conversing with the Prime Minister.
During Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War), coalition airplanes fly over Kuwait and Iraq. They drop bombs on targets. Includes views from aircraft cameras. Fire and smoke from targets. Tanks in the desert. Soldiers in the cockpit of the airplanes. Missiles being fired from U.S. ships.
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