Film opens showing a U.S. Air Force F-100 in flight. Its SE tail code identifies it as belonging to the 416th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 31st Tactical Fighter Wing, out of Tuy Hoa, Vietnam. This is a two-seater F-100F training aircraft employed as a fast Forward Air Controller (FAC) in Operation Commando Sabre. Its back seat is empty. Various views of the aircraft are shown, some with brilliant blue sky background. Background radio transmissions sound like a Navy or Marine GCA unit giving approach guidance to an aircraft. Beginning at TC: 01:50, an F-4E of the 366th Fighter Wing is seen, flying on the wing of the F-100. The flight of two continues in formation to the end of the film.
Italian premier Benito Mussolini mounts and rides a horse. Benito Mussolini in stand salutes Black Shirt gathering. The Avanguardisti Units (Boy Scouts) parade on street, likely the Via del Corso in Rome, Italy. Italian troops patrol in border area with skis in hand. Young army recruits are inspected. Officers examine and inspect Howitzer. Italian troops parade near the Roman Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine in Rome.
The Royal Italian Army invades Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. The Royal Italian Army invades the African country from the border with Italian Eritrea. Italian infantry moving to Ethiopia on foot. They pass by a large rock formation. Italian L3/35 tankettes (Carro Veloce CV-35) moving into Ethiopia. Royal Italian Army cavalry units charging to Ethiopia.
Seventeen year old boys undergo military training in Rome, Italy. They form the military unit in Benito Mussolini's drive to put the entire able bodied population under arms. Youth undergo rifle training.
Communist threat to Berlin, Germany as the Soviet Union presses for a unified Communist Berlin. Traffic signal man demonstrates hand signals on street in West Berlin. View of citizens in West Berlin shopping, engaging in commerce, and going to and from work among newly constructed buildings, improved roads, and wearing new fashions. Sign near the Brandenburg Gate. Contrast is made with East Berlin, East Germany where buildings still in ruin from World War II are shown, including on the famous Unter den Linden Boulevard. Communist East German troops march on road. Woman enters a building and writes on a note pad. East German workers dig with spades at a construction site. The Western Powers get out of free Berlin uniting with the East Berlin under communist rule. Social and economic differences seen contrasting communist versus capitalist systems in Berlin. A woman working alongside men at a construction site.
President Dwight D Eisenhower visits the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) in Germantown, Maryland. View of the AEC building. Board reads 'United Stats Atomic Energy Commission'. President Eisenhower dedicates 13 Million dollars to the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Commission
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