Construction workers in hard hats sit on a wooden platform in Saigon in Vietnam. A number of technicians and officials stand on pile driver.. A scale indicating the level of water as 116. A cross section of metallic pillars and rods is seen.
United States Vice President, Richard Nixon and his wife, aboard a U.S. Military Air Transport Command C-121 aircraft, arrive at Saigon airport in Vietnam. A Vietnamese woman (Tran My Hue) greets the Vice President's wife with flowers. Vice President stands in attention as a Vietnamese army officer salutes next to him as it drizzles. He inspects the honor guard by Vietnamese soldiers and also speaks to soldiers.
A barrage balloon flies over head an American landing craft in Normandy, France. Trucks move down to the beach as a landing craft moves towards the beach in the foreground. A cluster of tanks and vehicles moving onshore.. Many American ships.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. Two U.S. Navy Rhine patrol boats in Schierstein naval docks. Congressman Charles A. Halleck and Mrs. Halleck with a number of U.S. Navy, Air Force and Army officers board one of the patrol boats. The patrol boat backs out from the dock and goes off into the basin.
Opening scene shows German sailors gathered around two naval officers on a dock. One is in a dark uniform with dark hat. The other is in working uniform and a white hat. He renders traditional hand salute. View from further away shows many sailors and a couple of officers crowded together on a wooden pier, and shifts to reveal sailors lined up formally on the deck of a submarine tied to the pier. Sailors are gathered informally on the deck of another submarine in the background. A closeup from below shows officers saluting from the bridge of the first submarine. Sailors wave their hats from a pier next to a large docked ship, as the submarine sails away into the harbor. Change of scene shows submarine cruising on the surface passing a camera on another boat (unseen). Views of a surface warship with sun in background obscured by mist. Submarine seen submerging. Closeup of sailor using a signal lamp on a submarine. A submarine and surface warship signalling each other with lamps. A submarine cruising on the surface is passed by a warplane at low altitude. Scene shifts again to two submarines cruising on the surface side by side. Glimpses of wakes churned up from some surface vessels.
Allied occupation forces after the fall of Tunis, Tunisia, in World War 2. View from shore of large Allied transport ships side by side at a beach. Views of beach front fortifications. A pair of coastal defense guns on a hill overlooking a beach. Several views of Allied Landing craft infantry, Large, LCI(L), in a harbor.
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