80 die in Algeria in Moslem protest. Views of city and closely packed houses. Vehicles on a road. Police standing in two lines beside the road. A street in the city. Soldiers fire artillery as Moslems protest against France's plan to isolate the natives if peace talks did not lead to a close association after independence. The soldiers move into action in the streets of city. Rioters carried by soldiers. Soldiers standing in a group, show Algerian flag.
The plight of South East Asian refugees, with focus on role of international organizations in Europe. Host Alexander speaks about increasing number of refugees since 1975. Victor Palmieri, U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, is interviewed. He speaks about international aid to keep refugees alive. Camp area of refugees. Refugees are sent to other camps of other countries. Refugees in camp. Alexander speaks about that lucky refugees who are resettled into US, China, Canada, Australia and France and others remain in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
American troops invasion force group in large numbers in tent area. General Dwight D. Eisenhower walks and talks among the paratroopers and soldiers on the evening before the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. Allied Invasion troops march onto landing craft. LST (Landing Ship Tank) loaded with soldiers. Normandy beaches: fires are burning and smoke is seen along coastline. Troops walk down gangplank into water of Normandy beaches on D-Day. Formation of USAF Boeing B-17s Flying Fortress in flight. Top turret of B-17, large formation of B-17s in the background. German Me 262 aircraft in flight, plane descends toward earth. B-17 bomber going down, engines on fire.
Closeup of a freighter steaming past the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. Sailors riding on a commercial bus near the entrance to the U.S. Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia. Traffic at the road intersection. Entrance sign identifying the U.S. Navy base. Views of ships docked at the base. Flags flying outside the Headquarters of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT). View of the great map room inside the headquarters. Officers from various NATO countries seated for a briefing conducted by A U.S. Navy Captain circa 1954. The most senior officers, including the first SACLANT, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, step close to the map, where he speaks to the briefing officer. Closeup of the briefing officer moving images of aircraft over the map in the vicinity of the Portuguese Azore Islands. Closeup of straits of Gibraltar and then of Brest and Cherbourg on the coast of France; the Western approaches to the British Isles; the Norwegian coast; Iceland; Northern Labrador; the whole seaboard of Canada and the United States. View of waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Glimpse back to Admiral McCormick at the briefing map and then to a partially submerged submarine moving in water of the Atlantic. Narrator mentions subs of the 1960s. U.S. nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine launches a polaris missile. Final view of briefing map.
French personnel test the second A- bomb in the Sahara Desert in Algeria. The A-bomb test site for France in the Sahara desert. French personnel assemble for the country's second atomic bomb test and discuss. An official talks over a telephone. A button of equipment is pressed to initiate detonation of the bomb. The nuclear device explodes. A mushroom cloud rises.
Regarding Project Eagle. View inside a Secret School operated by the Polish Ministry of Defense for the American Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ). in London, England, during World War II. Officers seated at a table in the school, as a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Dasher, Chief of the Polish Section, American Office of Strategic Services, Europe, explains that they are training 40 selected Polish soldiers who had been forced to serve in the German army and who had surrendered at the first opportunity, in France. They will be instructed in techniques of infiltration and radio operations. Seen, at a long table, are Polish technicians who will conduct a 6 months intensive course for the trainees. Major Schumolsky, Head of Polish Special Force Headquarters in London, and Major Schumannofsky, Officer of Polish Military Intelligence Service, also speak.
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