Senator Vandenberg talks about the U.S. relations with Soviet Russia. Demanding that this nation be firm in its dealings with foreign powers, he says our foreign policy must be one which 'says what it means and means what it says'.
San Severo Airfield in Italy, during World War 2. Map showing location of San Severo. U.S. personnel around parked B-24 Liberator aircraft. White outdoor tent canopies in front of White buildings (far in background). View from passenger automobile driving rapidly along nearly empty road lined with trees. View shifts to a village street as seen from overlooking building. Two horse carts move along the street and several pedestrians walk on sidewalk. Park surrounded by official-looking buildings. Man and woman ride, standing, in a horse-drawn cart. A busy outdoor marketplace, where several children pose for the camera. Numerous local people on side streets. Several boys pose closeup for the camera. View from open area, of street lined with apartment houses. Pedestrians on sidewalks and horse carts on the street, but no motor vehicles moving (one parked off the street). Words on door of building read '4th PHOTO. TECH. SQ,' (4th Photographic Technical Squadron). U.S. Army jeeps parked outside. Sign reads '90th P.W.R. Dispensary,' (identifying dispensary of the 90th Photographic Wing, Reconnaissance). Closeup of sign reading: "90th P.W.R. Dispensary, Sick Call 0830, American Military Personnel ---ONLY. Major Tom S. Shields, Wing Surgeon." Military ambulances parked outside the building. Another sign identifies a mess hall.
A team of horses pulls a farmer's wagon across a road past U.S. 7th Army Patton tanks moving along a road during NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo" in Germany. A German woman looks out the window of her house as Tanks move through her village. Tanks and jeeps drive at high speed along paved roads. A camouflaged tank takes up a position. Another tank passes a sign identifying a town in the Giessen district of Hessen, Germany. Tanks and jeeps cross a steel bridge. More tanks, including some with foliage camouflage, and others filled with troops, are seen moving along roads..
U.S. 7th Army artillerymen operate M5 high speed tractors as they practice rapid repositioning 155 mm howitzers in the field, during NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo," in Germany. Soldier guides tractor driver as a gun is positioned. A howitzer with foliage draped upon it. Gun crew places camouflage netting over a howitzer. Crew pulls cover from barrel and prepares gun for firing. View down gun barrel as it is raised.
As part of the NATO forces, U.S. 7th Army tanks, troops, and artillery participate in "Exercise Cordon Bleu" with Central Army Group and 4th Tactical Air Force. One object of the exercise, among others, was to improve coordination of NATO forces of various types and nationalities. American M24 tanks move past a monitoring team parked at side of the road during the exercises in Germany. Another scene shows soldiers on motorcycles moving along a road and heavy armor following. A mortar team in the field. Infantry in defensive positions. A tank is guided into a firing position. Gunner on top of tank. Tank turret rotates. The name: "Austerlitz" painted on the turret. Tank commander looks through binoculars. Several NATO aircraft fly overhead and swoop low over water area. A tank rolls over a bridge, past Marshal Alphonse juin of France, Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Central Europe, who is standing at side of road. Two F-80 jet fighters swoop low overhead. Marshal Juin is joined by two French officers, one a tank commander in helmet and goggles.
U.S. Army Cavalry moving across desert terrain in Mexico, during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa. They proceed single file down a hill followed by pack horses carrying supplies. Closeup of the (only) Jeffery Armored Car Number One. (Built for evaluation, in 1916. It is armed with four .30 cal Benet-Mercie machine rifles and had two fully revolving turrets.) Here it is deployed in the Mexican desert. View of it coming along a dirt road, down a hill. Next, armed cavalrymen are seen running to their horses, mounting up and riding in loose formation. They are then seen in formations making a cavalry charge. A wagon train of covered wagons carries supplies across a bridge. Several views of such supplies in wagon trains raising dust as they proceed along dirt roads.
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