American Locomotive Company tank manufacturing plant, Schenectady, New York. Operator climbs down from a parked U.S. M47 Patton tank. An operator demonstrates the ability to rotate the gun turret of a tank. View from behind open top hatch of an M47 Patton tank in motion. Crewman occupies the top hatch and a pennant is visible reading: 6 ALCO. An M47 tank drives slowly through a tread-deep water obstacle, and spins about upon exiting.
Parking area at American Locomotive Company manufacturing plant, in Schenectady New York, is filled with new M47 Patton tanks. Ground-level view of tank wheels and treads. A new tank being parked in the crowded lot of the plant. Several new M47 tanks being driven at high speed and rotating their gun turrets as they turn a 90 degree corner on the road. View from behind crewman in top hatch of tank underway. A demonstration of an M47 tank spinning about in place.
French paratroops jump in two waves from C-47 aircraft over Indochina. Their parachutes float slowly to earth. A medic treats one trooper injured during the drop. The French troopers move from the landing area towards a region where smoke and fire are visible. They set up machine guns and fire. The French troopers destroy and burn a Viet Minh jungle camp.
French Indochina war. Supplies dropped from the air, by parachute, fall through a tree, as French troops standing nearby watch. An air evacuation helicopter takes off from a field and flies away. French troops walk along the edge of a field. The same helicopter, bearing red cross markings, lands in an open field, and a wounded French soldier is carried on a litter, to be loaded aboard for air evacuation.
French troops move along path through jungle, in Indochina. They use a bulldozer to clear growth. French troops on a truck with rails, to repair old railroad. One soldier walks across concrete culvert near old railway. French troops carrying supplies through the jungle. They traverse open area containing foundations where buildings once stood. Vietnamese laborers clearing brush with machetes. A French bulldozer at work repairing an old road.
Operation Desert Rock at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. Marines in tan overalls and wearing marine utility caps stand around Marine Corps jeeps near Yucca Flats, an atomic bomb test area. Two marines drive away in a jeep. An aircraft in flight as it leaves a vapor trail. The marines stand in desert as they wear utilities, cartridge belts, helmets. The marines carry rifles and BAR's( Browning Automatic Rifle). A small self propelled gun and LVT ( Landing Vehicle Tracked) in the background. A small board sticks out of sand. The marines walk by emplacements and look down into a foxhole. A member of a radiation team. A walkie talkie laid on the ground. Batteries and other equipment on the ground preceding test shot Dog of Operation Tumbler-Snapper.