Closeup of a freighter steaming past the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. Sailors riding on a commercial bus near the entrance to the U.S. Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia. Traffic at the road intersection. Entrance sign identifying the U.S. Navy base. Views of ships docked at the base. Flags flying outside the Headquarters of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT). View of the great map room inside the headquarters. Officers from various NATO countries seated for a briefing conducted by A U.S. Navy Captain circa 1954. The most senior officers, including the first SACLANT, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, step close to the map, where he speaks to the briefing officer. Closeup of the briefing officer moving images of aircraft over the map in the vicinity of the Portuguese Azore Islands. Closeup of straits of Gibraltar and then of Brest and Cherbourg on the coast of France; the Western approaches to the British Isles; the Norwegian coast; Iceland; Northern Labrador; the whole seaboard of Canada and the United States. View of waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Glimpse back to Admiral McCormick at the briefing map and then to a partially submerged submarine moving in water of the Atlantic. Narrator mentions subs of the 1960s. U.S. nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine launches a polaris missile. Final view of briefing map.
View of the Cave of Winds at base of Niagara Falls. Workmen build Cave of Winds wooden bridges while they endure rapids and dangerous water at the base of the Niagara Falls. Workman saws wood while covered with heavy mist at the base of Niagara Falls. Workman crawls carefully on wooden bridge to cross rapids. Heavy mist covers view of workmen in wooden bridges at Cave of Winds. Torrential rapids fall and mist covers the Cave of Winds and Niagara Falls.
French civilians remove large trees used as roadblocks in Avranches (Normandy), France during World War 2. Frenchmen uses ropes to push down timber roadblocks. A man uses a hammer, striking the base of the roadblock to make it fall. Two men sawing the base of a large roadblock. Frenchmen pulling down roadblock with a rope. Frenchmen strike bases of timber with hammers. Rope is tied on top of the roadblock. Men sawing timber roadblock. Men pulling rope to remove roadblock. An Allied truck drive past Frenchmen discussing near roadblock.
Iranian soldiers firing mortars and machine guns during a public demonstration. Iranian civilians and children watch a weapons demonstration by the Iranian Army. An Iranian Army officer uses the telephone to communicate orders to soldiers. Soldiers fire mortars on command. Soldiers in desert foxholes firing mortars. A general watch the demonstration from a pair of binoculars. Night shots, antiaircraft guns firing tracers into mountainside. Explosion on base of a mountain. An Iranian girl watches the demonstration with her family. Iranian soldiers firing with machine guns. Three soldiers demonstrate a Browning M1919 machine gun. Anti-aircraft guns fires at base of a mountain. Soldiers firing with Browning machine guns in Iran. More explosions at the base of a mountain. A soldier firing with rifle. Antiaircraft guns firing tracers into mountainside at night. Tracer ammunition flash as they are fired into the mountainside.
Happy French children greet United States Army soldiers entering a village in Normandy, France during World War II. The soldiers enter the town as seen from a moving vehicle. Church in the background shows damage. A parachute stuck in a tree. Wounded German prisoners are carried on litters by United States Army medics to their base. The soldiers assist a captured German to a truck. Wounded German soldiers lying on their stretchers. A badly wounded soldier with an arm cast sleeping. Medic car enters a base. A large building in the base.
VNAF helicopter pilots at Ton Son Nhut Airport. They bid farewell to families and friends inside airport terminal. Officials check boarding passes at terminal gate. Bags of VNAF candidates are also inspected. They board plane. American commercial airplanes, namely Seaboard World and Airlift, taxi down runway and take off. A plane in flight is shown. Ton Son Nhut Airport terminal building appears with flags flying at terminal entrance.
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