Interior of a Polaris submarine in United States. Views aboard the submarine, with crew at duty stations. Command compartment, with steering controls visible. Operators at the radar, sonar and various control consoles.including one for the submarine's missiles. Crewmen wear headphones and record information pertinent to their respective stations. Checklists are used.
U.S. Coast Guard activities at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and at sea. Three senior officers, two of them in uniform outside the United States Coast Guard Academy. Coast guard officers seated behind. Cadets march. The academy building in the background. A vessel in rough waters. A breeches buoy equipment on a coast guard cutter.
Officers aboard a U.S. Coast Guard "Lake Class" 250 foot Cutter, at anchor, in a harbor in United States.Brief view of a Lieutenant, on deck. View of Lieutenant Commander conversing with a civilian, and being congratulated by another officer. Interior of cabin. Two Lieutenant Commanders sit over a backgammon board, together with a civilian (who is smoking) and an Ensign. A Lieutenant Junior Grade, and another Ensign, watch and kibitz from easy chairs nearby. A Lieutenant, clowns for the camera, with his hat on backwards, making movie-cranking motions with his arm and making silly faces.
Diversion tunnels made for the construction of Boulder Dam on the Colorado River in the United States. The dam site in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. Rocks on either side of the river. A bridge on the river. A small tunnel on one side of the river. Several workmen at the mouth of the tunnel. Men operate drilling jumbos mounted on a motor truck. A man on a ladder. Workmen drill holes into rocks with drifter drills. Equipment for drilling. Trucks and power shovels in a bore to remove shattered material. A truck comes out of the tunnel. Workmen watch the truck. Trucks move in a line on a road along the canyon walls. The trucks dispose off wastes in gulches. Men at work in the tunnel. A man operates a concrete machine. A gantry crane is operated by workmen to lay lining of concrete on sidewalls of the tunnel. Men near movable steel forms. A man operates a machine.
Squirrel monkeys in a cage in the United States. One has a medical tag around his stomach. The monkeys climb along the wire around the cage. A few squirrel monkeys sit on a rail inside the cage. They play and roam around the cage. Using a net, a man captures the tagged monkey and holds him in a gloved hand, which the monkey bites. Another gloved hand is seen which the monkey also bites.
Review of conflicts involving U.S. from World War 2 to 1970. A U.S. soldier with rifle and binoculars, on guard. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany to mass audience. German mobilization and blitzkrieg. U.S. troops firing small arms on island in Pacific, battling Japanese. U.S. soldiers on half-track firing artillery. Explosive destruction of Nazi swastika and Eagle symbol on top of building in Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany. General Douglas MacArthur stands as Japanese General signs surrender documents aboard USS Missouri, ending World War II. Times Square in New York City on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marking end of World War 2. American troops firing artillery and small arms in Korean War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the United Nations. Newspaper headlines about postwar Berlin Crisis. Soviet missiles on display in military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov and Nikita Khrushchev, at Kremlin, reviewing the parade. Cuban President Fidel Castro giving a speech. A newspaper headline reading: "Khrushchev orders removal of missiles" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet cargo ship with covered missiles on its deck. Red flag with image of Lenin and message: 'Partido Communista Dominicano' and a crowd chanting support for the Communist party in the Dominican Republic. Communist Chinese people marching with massed flags in the People’s Republic of China. Chairman Mao Zedong waving to a crowd of young supporters and Red Guards in China as they chant. A United States soldier in South Vietnam during Vietnam War looks through binoculars and then walks carrying his M-16 rifle. A map of Vietnam.
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