Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. Captured German tanks of World War I paraded on streets in New York, United states. Floats decorated as ships, vessels, barrage balloons and medical aid room at the parade. Float of Chemical Warfare Department. People gather to look at the parade. A barrage balloon of the U.S. Army Air Service.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. F-86 D aircraft stationary with a pilot in the cockpit. Pilot flips the switch and moves a lever. A split frame shows the tail exhaust section of the aircraft closed to a narrow opening. As the pilot moves the lever the opening vent on the exhaust is manipulated. Exhaust section of F-86D aircraft. A light blinks on instrument panel indicating an unsafe position. F-86D aircraft taxis along and takes off.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Tufts attached to wings of F-86 aircraft. A project officer climbs into the cockpit of F-86 aircraft and places film pack in camera, mounted on the rear of the pilot's seat. Officer talks to the pilot. Plane takes off. Project engineer views the film taken during test on 16 mm moviola and writes a report. Electronic flight stimulator F-86.
Nazi German paratroopers rescue Benito Mussolini from confinement in the Campo Imperatore Hotel at the Gran Sasso massif (Gran Sasso mountain, the highest peak in the Apennines range, Italy). Military trucks are seen driving up the mountain road toward the Gran Sasso mountain. German soldiers walk along the road. Lieutenant Georg Freiherr von Berlepsch, leader of the 1st Company, Fallschirmjäger (German Air Force paratroopers) briefs the troopers. Next the troopers are seen crossing a plateau as they head toward the Campo Imperatore buildings. Closeups of the buildings. Benito Mussolini in black overcoat and hat, seen leaving the hotel in the company of his German rescuers. Paratrooper reporting by radio. View of Alpine cable car system used to depart from the mountain. Major Otto-Harald Mors (sometimes incorrectly written as Harald-Otto Mors) commander of the Parachute Regiment salutes Lieutenant von Berlepsch, as his Company returns from the mountain. They shake hands. German Colonel Otto Skorzeny, operations commander, walks with group escorting Mussolini. The Mussolini and Colonel Skorzeny climb aboard a German Luftwaffe Fieseler Fi 156C-3/Trop Storch short takeoff and landing liaison aircraft. Troopers wave as the aircraft takes off from the mountainside. Complete change of scene shows a German Junkers, Ju-52 aircraft in flight overhead. Next, Adolf Hitler is seen rendering a traditional military hand salute as he stands, watching the airplane taxi and park at the airfield serving his Wolf's Lair headquarters near Rastenburg on the Eastern Front. Mussolini steps from the plane and is warmly greeted by Hitler. His son-in-law, Count Gian Galeazzo Ciano, embraces and kisses Mussolini, who then steps into a mercedes touring car displaying both Italian and Nazi symbols. Arriving at the Wolf's Lair, Mussolini is greeted by German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Hitler escorts Mussolini through the building. Next, the two are seen leaving the building and driving back to the airport, where Hitler and entourage bid farewell to Mussolini, who climbs aboard the Ju-52, again. Hitler waves as the plane taxis out.
From a dramatized civilian protection film produced as a public service announcement or PSA by the Clorox Chemical company. Shows the precautions to be taken in case of a gas attack and the first aid measures to be used after gas exposure during World War 2. Aircraft in flight. Bomb wreckage during World War II including scenes from blitz firebombed areas in Europe or England, and scenes from China under attack by Japanese. Civilians fleeing in China as a Japanese attack begins. Back in the U.S., view of a new tank rolling into final assembly at a factory, and bullets being manufactured and poured into large containers in a munitions or ammunition factory. Narrator covers various precautions to be taken in case of a gas attack while at home, and actors depict: Closing the windows and other openings in the house. Woman seals kitchen exhaust fan. Man checks and closes fireplace flue in house. A man and woman move upstairs in the house to escape fumes. Air Warden sounds alert using a spinning handheld device, and asks people to stay indoors. Clothes affected by gas attack are left outside a house. Liquid gas removed from the skin by blotting with a tissue. Exposed skin cleaned and rinsed with bleaching solution. A baking soda solution containing water used to irrigate eyes. Man takes a shower and soaks himself up. Nose irrigated with baking soda solution. In case of unavailability of first aid one must take a bath. Woman takes a shower and rinses face and eyes. War scenes including a German Luftwaffe aircraft hit and diving toward ground. Wreckage of a German warplane. Views of a bottle of bleach, and baking soda solution, and a bar of soap used as cleaning tools in gas attack.
Aerospace Force Communication Electronics. Male and female Air Force personnel of United States at a Teletype Communication Center. They work on teletype machines with a large world map on a wall in the background.
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