A truck pulls a missile, on a trailer, to the launch area of test stand number 10, at Peenemunde Germany, during World War 2. Test center workmen move a firing stand assembly close to the trailer, as officials watch. The missile is tilted at an angle against the stand, as German officers and officials walk around examining it. A truck drives away from the site. Other specialized vehicles are seen. One drives away pulling the mobile launch stand assembly. Test center workers run about the site making quick preparations, as officials observe. Vapors rise from what looks like a large storage tank in the field. Vehicles approach the tank. A truck tows another mobile stand assembly onto the field.
British forces operating in Southern Italy, during World War 2. British infantry are seen, somewhat sheltered, prone on the ground near armored vehicles.Smoke is rising in the distant background. Scene shifts to infantrymen in a field of wild flowers. Closeup of one manning a Bren gun. Closer view of several others positioned close to him. Several rise up and begin moving forward. British camouflaged A22 Churchill tank moves through the wild flower field. Broader view from piles of fallen rocks shows infantry and tanks moving in concert across a wide front. Back in the field of wild flowers, more tanks and infantry are advancing. Another broad view shows considerable white smoke behind advancing tanks (possibly smoke screens set by the advancing troops). More views of tanks and infantry moving across the fields of flowers. British soldier examines a knocked out German 3" gun. Smoke issuing from an disabled German armored personnel carrier abandoned in the field.
Massive damage on board USS Forrestal (CV-59) in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. A burned and damaged helmet lies on the deck, swaying in the wind. Several men from damage control teams and naval officers walk on the damaged deck area. They examine gaping holes due to rocket and bomb explosions. Twisted metal and scorched areas visible. The port side of the flight deck is partially sheared off, with rubble and twisted metal.
Male Jewish refugees learn about wireless technology in a classroom in Paris, France. The men watch an instructor writing at a blackboard and they take notes. A portrait on the classroom wall of Joseph Meyerovitch, founder of the lecture courses. A man examines electrical wireless equipment and others look closely. View of the students in the classroom.
Paris, France. Several Jewish refugee women learn to stitch and make dresses in a seamstress classroom. A woman teaches other women to make artificial flowers. Others observe the artificial flower making techniques. The woman instructor gives one of the flowers to Mr. Leon Frenkel, the inspector general of professional instruction, to examine.
British troops aid Federation of Malaya civilians in building a town. Huts under construction. A native man digging with a hoe. Women carrying supplies and children in baskets. The village being completed. Views of workers in the fields, feeding livestock including chickens and pigs. Sign over a store reads, "Layang Resettlement Cooperative Trading Co." Interior of the store as the shop keeper issues food to a woman beside a set of scales. Another building labeled "Dispensary" and inside where a doctor examines a child's leg as the child is held by a native woman. Children being instructed in a classroom. A man standing on a porch addressing a crowd of gathered civilian men. All the men raise their hands in response to a question. Armed Malayan men patrolling a perimeter fence against rebels from the Malayan Communist Party.
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