Second Class Midshipmen launch their flight training with a descent into a pool in a Dilbert Dunker at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annaolis, Maryland. A ditching course for training the pilots to learn how to correctly escape a submerged airplane. The Dilbert Dunker descends into a pool. A pilot seated in the Dilbert Dunker. He gets it out and swims.
U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur testifies on the Pacific crisis in front of a senate war committee in Washington. General MacArthur arrives at the Senate Building for the opening of Joint Military Affairs and Foreign Affairs Committee session. Exterior of the building and cars parked outside the building. Officers carry a map in the session room. General Mac Arthur is greeted by U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley and Senator Charles William Tobey. Cameramen click photographs. The session is held behind closed doors and security guards stand guard outside the door. The session is exercised and newsmen prepare for publishing the news about the session. General MacArthur leaves the session.
6 crew members and 6 occupants die as a B-50 Superfortress bomber crashes into an apartment in Seattle, Washington. The crashed four engined B-50 bomber which was designed to carry atomic bombs to distant targets. The apartment in which the bomber dived shortly after taking off. Firemen douse fire. Damaged cars and wreckage. The damaged apartment. Victims are carried out.
Nineteen persons died and ruins of houses due to a flood in Italy. People carry out flood victims near Lake Como. Views of men and women with children expressing sorrow. Damaged buildings. People inspect their ruined houses. A man shovels debris out of a house. Dead animals. Damaged building. Men in a stream. People walk through debris on a road.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlin go round the world in an amphibious jeep. The amphibious jeep carrying Mr. and Mrs. Carlin and their children at a sea. Mr. and Mrs. Carlin of Australia arrive in Denmark. They get off the jeep. People standing at a pier in the background. The amphibious jeep is driven in the streets.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman is the main speaker at dedication of the American Legion in Washington DC. View of the American Legion headquarters building. The U.S. flag on the building. A large crowd of Americans seated in chairs. President Truman welcomes the Legion to base operations. Several American agents seated in the background. People stand and applaud after Truman's speech.