Men push bombs on bomb trucks and park them in a passageway on board United States Navy aircraft carrier Boxer in Korea during Korean War. Coke machine in background.
Exteriors of Corcoran Gallery of Art building in Washington DC. Exhibition of photographs collected from 68 countries is held at the Corcoran Gallery with a theme 'Family of the man'. People looking at pictures exhibited. Creator of the exhibition, Captain Edward Steichen at the opening of the exhibition, autographs a copy of the book containing all the 'Family of the man' exhibition pictures and presenting it to Vice President Richard Nixon. Series of pictures exhibited in the Corcoran Gallery are shown.
Aerial views from an airplane flying near rugged mountains in Cuba. The mountains extend right to the ocean in places. Cuban Army personnel step from a Cuban Army Air Force de Havilland Beaver airplane at a makeshift airport and are met by soldiers stationed there. A Cuban Army officer, who arrived on the plane, is escorted around the base. He is shown a makeshift hut in a log enclosure. Local soldiers point out some bullet damage on another building. Cuban Army officers huddle over another officer who points out important places on a map. Two Cuban Army officers discuss something in a newspaper. One of the visiting officers receives a call outdoors on a radio telephone. A group of Cuban Army soldiers pose for the camera. A Mountain and small buildings on the base in the background. Final views are from the airplane airborne departing the base, which can be seen on the ground below.
Twenty one former Nazi German SS men go on trial before military tribunal for the massacre of 1944, of 642 men, women and children at a village in Oradour-sur-Glane, France during World War II. While in the village, seven survivors survey the charred buildings of the hamlet which was put to torch. Abandoned bicycle with flowers. Mourners at graves.
Twenty firemen and three policemen injured by fire and explosion in a tire and battery shop. Firemen blown through a wall in the blast. Policemen and firemen gather outside the ruined shop. Injured men helped into an ambulance. Ambulance pulls away.
Members of the French battalion decorate in the presence of NATO commander General Matthew Ridgway. Battalion marches and officers salute.