A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Traffic on a street in Saigon. Headquarters of Far East Joint Medical Regulating Office. Men at the office decide upon the hospital best equipped to treat a particular patient. An officer marks on a chart. Another officer speaks over a phone. A teletype strip. Officers gather at a briefing room at Scott air base in Illinois. An officer (General Howell M. Estes, Jr.) gives a presentation about the medical rescue undertaken by air ambulance crew. Officer inquires another officer about a burn patient. Officer also briefs about the weather factors that affect medical evacuation.
French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau visits the trenches during World War 1. French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and other French officials disembark from a “Europeens saloon car (no. 2444)”. Front page of the Le Petit Parisien announcing “Le cabinet Clemenceau est fait”. A French soldier reads a newspaper in a dugout. A French soldier leads Prime Minister Clemenceau and military officials to a trench. Prime Minister Clemenceau and officials inspecting the trench. Prime Minister Clemenceau and military officials ride a car. A French soldier smokes a pipe while standing on a trench. A French Nieuport biplane flying.
Italian troops parade. Italians cheer for Mussolini outside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (P.za del Duomo, 20123 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan, Italy. People gathered on St. Mark’s Square (P.za San Marco, 30100 Venezia VE, Italy) in Venice, Italy. A crowd cheers in front of the Victor Emmanuel II Monument (Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. Crowds gathered in front of the Duomo di Milano Milan Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan and the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. View of the Milan Cathedral filled with cheering crowds outside.
The exiled King Umberto II of Italy visits the Museu del Cau Ferrat along with his family in Sitges in Spain. King Umberto II, his wife Marie-José of Belgium, and their children (Princess Maria Pia, Prince of Naples Vittorio Emanuele, Princess Maria Gabriella and Princess Maria Beatrice) visit the Spanish museum. He looks at the collections at the Museu del Cau Ferrat (C. de Fonollar, 08870 Sitges, Barcelona, Spain) to acquaint himself with the life in medieval Spain.
French President Rene Coty arrives and lays wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Victor Emmanuel II Monument (Altare della Patria Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) during a state visit to Rome, Italy. President Coty arrives at Vatican City. View of the Saint Peter’s Square (Piazza San Pietro Città del Vaticano, Vatican City). President Coty meets Pope Pius XII and other members of Catholic Church hierarchy, in the first peaceful visit between the French head of state and the Pope since the year 800. President Coty wears the silver chain of the Supreme Order of Christ (Ordine Supremo del Cristo in Italian), the highest order of chivalry awarded by the pope.
Street scenes in Rome, Italy. People seated in a streetcar. Pedestrians cross the street. Men in Vespa motorcycles and cars on the street, crossing the streetcar tracks. Buildings and churches in the background. Italians riding bicycles. An Italian carabinieri directs the traffic. Scene changes to Milan, Italy. Street scene with police directing traffic along Via del Corso. Policeman raises his hand to give directions to the traffic in Milan, Lombardy. The Milan Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) in view. Streetlamps in view. Traffic of vehicles and pedestrians near square in front of Milan Cathedral.