Board of 'Ritz Jhule Building number 122' at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. Secretory Talbott gives speech on stage. Air Force Personnel seated on ground watch the show in ENT Auditorium. Airmen take pictures and applaud. General LeMay gives a brief speech on stage. Arthur Godfrey speaks to air Force Personnel and entertains them by playing guitar. Jeanette Davis sings on stage. Colonel Bernt Balchen gives a brief speech. Troops in winter clothing exit the auditorium and head toward the Gymnasium.
Men dressed in winter clothing construct supply shaft in Sierra, Greenland. They cut and place wooden sheets on constructed wall of supply shaft.
View of Radar Antenna in Sierra, Greenland. Sign board reads 'Sierra Greenland Army Weather, Upper Air Installation'. Man carrying 5 Gallon Can walks out of igloo. He breaks ice in bucket using shovel.
Sign board reads 'Hydrogen-No Smoking' in Sierra, Greenland. Man mixes calcium-hydride in can to generate gas for weather balloons.
Man fills balloon with calcium-hydride gas in weather balloon. Another man operates Radar Antenna. Man walks out of igloo, attaches radiosonde to the balloon and releases it. The balloon moves upward. Man positions Radar Antenna.
Three men prepare weather data sheet in Sierra, Greenland. They draw line on sheet and look at scale. Man checks Radiosonde. Another man tunes the Oscilloscope.
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