U.S. Air Force U-2 aircraft takes off from runway, and climbs rapidly.Next scene shows interior of a U.S. Air Force photo reconnaissance laboratory where films from U-2 aircraft are developed and are being examined by Air Force photo interpreters. Images of Soviet missile installations in Cuba are seen on the close-up images.
A film titled 'Japan's West Point' of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine about the military cadets trained in Japan during World War II. An Imperial Japanese Army officer gives command. The military cadets march carrying a Japanese Army flag. The military cadets in prone position undergo training. The Emperor Hirohito of Japan stands at a balcony. The emperor is dressed in military uniform. The military cadets march in formation. Tanks move on ground and soldiers trained. A soldier on a horse raises his sword. Aerial view of the city of Imperial Japanese Army Academy or Rikugun Shikan Gakkō in Ichigaya, Tokyo, Japan. Youth enter the military academy. The military cadets march during training. A professor takes round as students appear for exam in an examination hall. An officer reviews the cadets. (World War II period).
A poster on a wall, in Berlin Germany, announces Mobilization. German soldiers in uniforms,including Pickelhaube (spiked helmets), assemble in a courtyard. Others are assembled in a city square. where they examine and sight their rifles, while being watched by several officers, dressed in long coats and caps. Members of an Army band walk rapidly past the camera, carrying their drums and other instruments, but not playing them. Soldiers assembled in a small square, with their arms stacked. A German army officer walks rapidly past civilian recruits gathered in a large square to join the army. Soldiers stand at large tables where the recruits sign up. Berlin citizens crowd a square as war is declared in 1914. Views from a vehicle driving past a crowd gathered in front of the Berliner Dom, on Museum Island in the Mitte borough. German soldiers are keeping civilians away from a large rectangular space set aside in front of the Berliner Dom. Crowd gathered in front of the Imperial Palace on the Museum Island at Schlossplatz. Glimpse of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial. Glimpse of troops parading in formation. Glimpse of a bemedaled German Hussar officer with unidentified domed building in background. Kaiser Wilhelm II , speaks from a porch on the Imperial Palace, announces the declaration of World War 1, to an assembled crowd of citizens. Monument of Otto von Bismarck in Berlin, with the Reichstag building in the background. Troops parading through crowds of spectators in front of the Reichstag.
Atomic and hydrogen bomb tests' effects in Japan and the United States. Japan: Newsmen and cameramen stand in the Tokyo Medical University hospital. Head of the hospital Doctor Suzuki greets Chief of the Hiroshima atom casualty commission John Morton. The doctors examine the fishermen burned during the Enewetak (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) hydrogen bomb tests. San Francisco: A crane lowers net of Tuna fish in San Francisco. An official wears belt with a Geiger counter. Food and drug officials check the fishes for radioactive contamination. Fort Devens Massachusetts: The members of the 1st Army Chemical Defense school are confronted with simulated atomic bomb explosions. Soldiers advance through the smoke of explosion.
Republic of Korea Navy sailors aboard a battleship number 61 in Korea. Various interior views of ship, bridge, engine room, and Korean sailors at work during Korean War era. Scene of radar giving information of another ship approaching. Sailors come out of a compartment and climb stairs to get to battle stations. A sailor looks through a targeting device on one of the ship's guns. Sailors load Korean naval guns. Firing from naval guns. Signal light being flashed. A sailor steers the ship. A gauge shows direction of sail. A sailor changes speed to full. The crankshaft of the ship in operation. Close-up view of steam driven crankshaft up and down motion. Sailor detects problem with a steam fitting and delivers part in need of repair to another sailor. That sailor is suffering sea sickness symptoms. He puts on a welding mask and attempts to weld the needed repair on a valve but collapses as he is seasick. View of ceiling lightbulb and moving ship. The ship at sea in calm seas. Ship doctor washes hands and examines the sailor. Sailor is determined to be unfit for service on ship and assigned a new post upon docking. The sailor walks through a passageway and leans on the rail. The ship at a harbor. Sailors anchor the ship. The sailor says goodbye to his friends aboard ship before leaving. The sailor carries baggage and leaves the ship. Other sailors wave to him from the ship. The reassigned sailor walks on the dock.
President of the United States John F Kennedy's tour to Redstone arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Soldiers of Allied nations holding flags of their countries. An aircraft taxis. Honor guard stand at attention. U.S. Army band plays. President Kennedy and party including Vice President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson and U.S. Secretary of Army Cyrus Roberts Vance arrive in staff car. The party being taken on tour to hangar by astronautics engineer Dr. Wernher Von Braun. The hangar houses the Saturn rocket which Kennedy and the tour group examines. The party talks in the rocket hangar.
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