Mercury Astronaut team at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) press conference in Washington DC. Astronauts Lt Malcom S Carpenter, Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, United States Air Force; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF answer reporters' questions. Journalists take notes. NASA logo in the background.
Actions of Italy leading up to World War II. Animated map shows Japan and the Sea of Japan on world globe. Benito Mussolini gives a speech. Italian troops invade Ethiopia. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie addressing the League of Nations. Ethiopian native leaders and tribal soldiers gather with Emperor Selassie and pledge allegiance to him and Ethiopia at a rally against the Italian invasion. Ethiopian fighters with spears and bare feet battling well-armed Italian soldiers in vain. Newspaper heading reads 'Mussolini invades Ethiopia'. Italian aircraft drops bombs on Ethiopia. President Franklin Roosevelt in his speech denounces the Italians invading Ethiopia, noting that civilians including women and children "were being ruthlessly murdered with bombs from the air." Animations depicting the rapid speed at which the earth can be traveled by air compared to formerly by ship. Thatch roofs huts being burned by Italian soldiers in Ethiopia. Similar scenes of civilian dwellings being burned by Japanese forces in Manchuria circa 1931. Mussolini, Hitler, and Goering meeting and discussing plans over a map. The three leaders are seen smiling and laughing. Camera view from low near Hitler's feet showing Adolf Hitler raising his hand in a Nazi salute. Brief scenes of fire burning through buildings in a war torn city; German forces digging ditches or foundations; Civilians waiting in line for food relief; children putting on gas masks and raising rifles while in prone position during a training exercise; dead bodies of war victims in China.
Battle scenes of German and Soviet forces during German assault in the Crimea during World War 2. A German soldier send semaphore signals from a lookout tower set up near their encampment. In response, another soldier rings an air raid bell alarm. Soldiers unloading supplies at a pier, hurry to take cover, as German antiaircraft crew get ready for combat. A fast-moving Soviet warplane flies overhead as German antiaircraft batteries open fire. Gun crew firing a 12.8cm Flak 40 gun. Bombs exploding in a line on the ground. German troops along a road, with some taking cover in a ditch. A soviet warplane flying past at at what appears to be 100 ft altitude. Flak 40 gun crew firing with low elevation setting. German soldier using binoculars and sky filled with smoke from Flak bursts. A line of bomb explosions nearby. German soldiers fleeing from burning vehicles hit by bombs. More antiaircraft fire, and a spotter with binoculars watching a Soviet airplane explode and burn in the air, after being hit.
G-38 flying in air near air port in Vienna. The large crowd watches and cheers. President Wilhelm Miklas is helped by an attendant to get down from the plane. Foreign Minister Ignaz Seipel follows him. Policemen join hands to restrict the crowd from coming towards the plane.
Planes move in air. Riggers dive from plane. Many parachutes in sky. Riggers land on ground. An Army personnel watches riggers landing. Training session of paratroopers. Paratroopers doing push-ups under supervision. Paratroopers run on a road during training. They jump off from a 34 feet mock tower alone and then in a group of seven. The paratroopers are tied with safety ropes during these jumps. In the next part, paratroopers are trained to jump from a 250 feet tower. Next they jump from plane at a height of 1250 feet. It is then, the men qualify as paratroopers. Paratroopers receive wings during graduation ceremony and are assigned air-borne division. Two officials check documents. Arexy, Company Commander interviews Parker, a paratrooper.
Accompanied by military personnel, reporters, photographers, officials and newsmen board a Honduran Air Force DC-3 aircraft in Honduras. 'Fuerza Aerea Hondurena'(Honduras Air Force) is stenciled on the plane. Aerial views of farmland. The aircraft lands on broad field, where local people and officials look at an unexploded bomb. Officials examine the bomb, with particular attention to the fuse in its nose. Reporters take notes. A large number of local people gather around the site. Some are on horseback, wearing straw hats and smoking cigars. Local men show small water-filled ditches created by bombs. Men on horseback ride away. A man shows a sleeve of his uniform. A small boy and girl are seen. An armed military aviation officer talks with reporters. A badge of 'Fuerza Aerea Honduras' is stitched on his uniform sleeve. Press photographers take pictures of a larger crater. A man bails water from the crater, exposing a bomb.
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