Operation Skywatch in the United States. Man looks out through window of building at 'Ground Observer Post'. Old man looks up at sky. Woman looks into sky. Farmer outside barn feeds pigs. Woman watches sky. Women in Ground Observer tower look into sky. Young boy looks into sky with binoculars. Two women standing outside Ground observer shack. Two girls standing on porch outside Ground observer shack. Aircraft in flight. One girl writing on clipboard enters building. Girl hands report on clipboard to man at desk. Man picks up phone and reads report. Two women stand by door of Ground observer corps shack. Two men scan sky from post in Ground observer corps shack. Poster reads ' Plotting time delay'. Woman moves aircraft models on plotting board. Man scans sky. Aircraft in flight. Man holds clipboard. He stands in front of house and talks to boy. Boy talks on telephone at window. Man and woman seated at recording center. They wear head phones. People at controls. Man talks on phone. Men seated at chair get up and run outside as the siren rings. They get in the aircraft parked at airfield. Signal man directs the take off. Aircraft takes off. United States Air Force General Nathan Farragut Twining seated at desk. He speaks.
Operation Skywatch in the United States. Two Air Force enlisted men play ping pong in recreation room. Barber gives haircut to Air Force enlisted man. Enlisted man buys supplies at shop. Purchaser at shop.
Two U.S. Air Force F-80 shooting star jets fly overhead and then demonstrate bombing on a field in the Netherlands. NATO observers watch from a hillside next to a large windmill. Explosions are set off in the field, creating moderate-sized billowing mushroom clouds. NATO Infantrymen jump up from camouflaged positions and charge. General Alfred Greunther, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, walks with a NATO officer. He boards a helicopter and departs.
Reactions of Czech people on death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The exteriors of buildings in Prague. Czech flags are lowered. Black flags are raised. Large speakers broadcast death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. People on street read newspapers announcing death of Premier Stalin. A big picture of Premier Joseph Stalin on a building.
Reactions of Czech people on death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Two women place a small flower pot at bulletin board with pictures of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Women crying on street. Black flags fly from buildings. Flowers placed near bust of Stalin.
Reactions of Czech people on death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A large picture of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin on a building. Czech coal miners gather for announcement of Stalin's death. The workers listen to article. Interiors of the building showing male and female workers gathered for the speech.