A splashdown point for Apollo 11 Command/Service Module (CSM) in the Pacific Ocean. Aerial views of a base with trailers and people gathered. The President's aircraft can be seen parked. USS Arlington (AGMR-2) underway. It is bristling with countless antennas and posts erected on the flight deck, and is providing communications support for the Apollo 11 recovery. Navy officers on the deck of USS Arlington. Sailors are lined up in a square formation surrounding center of deck. Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded the Apollo 8 mission, is seen on deck. A U.S. Navy Sikorsky Sea King SH-3D helicopter hovering over USS Arlington. Aboard prime recovery ship USS Hornet (CVS-12), U.S. President Richard Nixon awaits the arrival of astronauts. The President stands in front of a Mobile Quarantine Unit, where NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Programs, George Mueller, explains the Biological Isolation Garment being modeled. Nixon feels the texture of the suit.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler attends a rally in Nuremberg, Germany. In midst of huge Nazi gathering, a contingent of German troopers stands shirtless and holding shovels. Crowd in stadium gives Nazi salute. Troops march carrying shovels (wearing complete uniforms) and pass in review on Nazi Party Rally Grounds. One group of soldiers goose steps as they pass in review. Chancellor Adolf Hitler looks delighted and smiles or grins at the goosestepping forces. Army and Navy units parade. A formation of German aircraft overhead. German tanks and artillery in the parade.Multistory banners bearing swastikas loom over the Rally Grounds. Nazi participants are lined up in many precise formations.
UNWCC (United Nations War Crimes Commission) officers visit the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. Officers including Mr. Oldham from Australia, Mr. Staurvopolos from Greece, Wing Commander Hopkins from Canada, Lieutenant Colonel Hodgson from the US, Commander J. Latta and Lieutenant Prowse of Admiral Stark's staff arrive at the Buchenwald camp. UNWCC officers look at wooden tiers used as berths for the sick of the camp. Officials enter a crematorium.
UNWCC (United Nations War Crimes Commission) officers visit the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. Officers including Mr. Oldham from Australia, Mr. Staurvopolos from Greece, Wing Commander Hopkins from Canada, Lieutenant Colonel Hodgson from the US, Commander J. Latta and Lieutenant Prowse of Admiral Stark's staff arrive at the camp. UNWCC officers examine ovens used for cremation of victims. A pile of dead bodies of Jewish victims. The ovens in which the bodies were burned. Human bones inside an oven. A monument commemorating 51,000 Jews who died in the camp.
Soviet Forces battling in Berlin during 1945, in World War 2, employ tanks and heavy machine guns. A Soviet soldier herds two German prisoners from a building. Groups of German soldier prisoners struggle through rubble as they are led from buildings, under guard. Soviet tanks firing as they pass a church building. A Soviet heavy gun being fired point blank on a Berlin street during Battle of Berlin. Buildings on fire. Soviet soldiers firing artillery field pieces. Views of destroyed and damaged German military aircraft on and in hangars of an airfield. Soviet Ilyushin II aircraft land on the airfield. Closeup of distressed German General rubbing his eyes. Flashback in time to 1943, in World War II. Field Marshal Hermann Goering is seen reviewing flyers of a German Luftwaffe (Air Force) unit. A Junkers Ju 52 trimotor aircraft lands and parks on an airfield. Italian leader Benito Mussolini steps from the aircraft after his rescue from imprisonment by the Italian Government at the Hotel Campo Imperatore. He is personally welcomed by Adolf Hitler, who had ordered the mission to rescue him. Change of time, again, to 1945, when Berlin, Germany is attacked by Forces of the Soviet Union. Closeup of a despairing German General. Scenes of utter destruction as Soviet troops batter Berlin, Germany with artillery. Soviet soldier steps down from his tank and gives a Soviet General a handgun, which he pockets and then leads a group of Soviet officers into a building
Part 1 of 4 of film "Wings for this Man", also known as "Army Air Forces special film project 151" (narrated by Ronald Reagan) about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African American pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps. They comprised the 332nd Fighter Group (nicknamed the Red Tails, because of distinctive red painted tails of their aircraft). They are see engaging a Luftwaffe formation of bombers and fighter escorts over Italy during World War 2. P-47 Thunderbolt fighters, of the 322nd Fighter Group, take off from an airfield and head out on morning patrol. They engage a formation of Heinkel He 111 bombers escorted by Me109 fighters. Gun camera footage is seen of the P-47s firing at German Me109s. Several are shot down. German pilot is seen parachuting from one. Afterwards, pilots of 332nd Fighter Group share some of their combat experiences. Views of the kinds of places and circumstances in civilian life from which pilots of the 332nd were drawn. Views of transition from civilian life to the military, including changing into uniforms and boarding a troop train in the snow. View from side of black locomotive and train moving at high speed with smoke pouring out. Montage of locomotive train images.
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