A futuristic gas turbine car designed by Chrysler Corporation with body hand crafted in Italy. The parts of the car displayed at a show. Two women seated in the space-age car. The roof canopy of the concept car slowly descends, automatically. Dashboard of the car and the turbine engine seen. A deceleration air flap is demonstrated.
Radar stations along the Distance Early Warning line (DEW line) rushed to competition across a 3000 mile arc in Arctic region. Canada and United States work together under savage conditions in the massive construction job. United States Air Force Plane. U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson on an inspection tour with Defense Minister of Canada Campney and other members of joint commission. Snow covered mountains in the background.
A U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre jet crashes into a neighborhood during landing approach after a supersonic training flight in California. It kills seven people as it smashes into a residential area. It sprays flaming fuel oil and completely destroys two houses. The demolished houses are seen. Army Personnel check the wreckage. Toys of children found in the wreckage. Signal Hill Oil Field seen. Several people take their belongings.
Animated maps show the conquest of low counties and France. German bombers and Stukas in flight. The German Luftwaffe aircraft blast Dunkirk. Enemy bombers shot down. German Air Force Strafe at the harbor and enemy warships. German pilots seated at the controls in the cockpit. German antiaircraft batteries fire at British ships of Dunkirk. (World War II period).
Car pulls up to curb with Lincoln Memorial in the background, in Washington DC. Captain Ted W. Lawson and Captain Dean Davenport ascend the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with one of them using a cane to assist, as they talk. They talk about home life and then they recall their flight as pilot and co-pilot on B-25 aircraft in the Tokyo raid in World War 2, one year earlier. Scene changes to open sea and view of the USS Hornet aircraft carrier (CV-8) underway at sea. Aircraft on the flight deck of USS Hornet ready for the operation 'The Doolittle Raid'. Airmen soldiers watch as Lt. Colonel Doolittle ties a Japanese medal onto a bomb. Closeup view of the medal on the bomb. The B-25 aircraft on flight deck ready for the attack on Tokyo. Lawson and Davenport talk about how they suffered engine failure on the return from Tokyo. The crew aboard the ship exercise, running in a group on an open part of the flight deck. Crews starting aircraft on April 18, 1942. The B-25 aircraft of Lt. Colonel Doolittle taking off first from the flight deck. Other B-25 Mitchell bombers taking off from the short flight deck. Planes in flight. Large image of United States flag waving. Still images of pilots captured by the Japanese during the raid. General Henry Arnold ("Hap" Arnold) seated at a desk and speaking, denounces the execution by the Japanese of U.S. pilots and calls on the forces of the US. Army Air Forces to continue their efforts until the enemy are destroyed.
'Letter from Buna'. A U.S. Army soldier writes a letter during World War II, while seated under a tarp in rain in a jungle area. U.S. Army and Army troops from Australia on the Buna campaign in New Guinea. Troops assemble at Port Moresby, New Guinea. A corduroy road is constructed in jungles. Supplies dropped from the air. Dense forests in the background. Firing on Japanese from beach positions during Battle of Buna-Gona. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers on beach and in trench positions that were overrun by allies. Thin and emaciated Japanese POWs (Prisoners Of War) sit on the ground. Native people carry injured men on stretchers to native huts. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur seen speaking with Australian General Thomas Blamey.
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