20,000 guests gather at a party to celebrate President Dwight D Eisenhower's birthday in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Guests enter a tent with signs "The GREATEST TENT on ... to attend the GREATEST BUFFET ... For the GREATEST GUY". President Dwight Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower, arrive at the party in a traditional Pennsylvanian Dutch buggy drawn by a dapple gray mare. Crowd greets him. He arrives with Mrs Eisenhower and cuts a 25 foot cake.
A small biplane parked on the ground in California. John Pontius, the pilot and the manufacturer of the plane pulls the plane. He sits in the cockpit. The plane takes off.
A flooded area in California. An aerial view of a field. Water in the area. A van on a flooded road. Houses in the flooded waters. A woman carrying with her clothes wades out of her house through the flooded waters.
An accident during static test firing of a rocket in Florida. A rocket at a launch pad. A fire blazes with a blast. Smoke rises due to the blast and is visible from a great distance. The nozzle of the rocket engine breaks loose during the test.
Winter sports at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Troops participate in Ski Race. Soldiers on skis as they run. They participate in a snow shoe race. Some soldiers fall. Soldiers participate in skijoring (Mule drawn skiers). Soldiers play curling and ice hockey.
American soldiers in northern Minnesota. Soldiers walk past the Round Tower of Fort Snelling. Soldiers read foundation stone at the tower. View of the foundation stone
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