A U.S. Air Force C-54 transport aircraft seen parked at the Amsterdam airport, in Holland. A truck is parked nearby. Men unload 37 packing cases, containing the records of the Nuremberg trials, and place them aboard the truck. Closeup of one case shows it addressed to the International Court at the Hague, Netherlands. Next is a sequences showing a Nazi concentration camp and its infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei," sign over the gate; A sign reading: "Vorsicht Gas.Lebensgefahr. nicht öffnen." (Caution gas. Danger to life. Don't open.") ; Nazi German figures in the dock at the trial, including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel, in front row, and Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, and Alfred Jodl, behind them. Closeup of Goering in dark glasses, and Hess. Glimpse of the courtroom. Scene shifts back to the airport, again, where the truck, loaded with the records proceeds under police escort. Street sign points 47 Km toward "Den Haag,"(The Hague). The truck and police escort passes through the gates of the Peace Palace in the Hague (home of the International Court of Justice).
U.S. President Harry S. Truman on USS Williamsburg in Bermuda during his holidays. Truman wearing a cap stands on the bridge of USS Williamsburg. A view of Bermuda landscape. The President and the commanding officer of the ship on the navigation bridge. A naval air station in Bermuda. Men man a rail on a rescue tug. Bermuda in the background. A motor launch with canopies on it. A small boat underway. A floating dry dock in the background. Three U.S. Navy Martin PBM Mariner aircraft in flight.
Bombed buildings in Berlin, Germany due to Allied air raids during World War II. Bombed German Chancellery building. Ruins and debris of the building in the foreground. Broken windows and damaged brick walls of the Chancellery. Rubble on the streets. A truck parked on a street. A man near the truck. Interior of the Chancellery shows damaged walls. Rubble and debris inside the Chancellery. Twisted steel rods.
American aviator Jacqueline Cochran flies a United States Air Force Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic jet trainer and makes a new speed record in the United States. A T-38 Talon taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight. Jacqueline in the cockpit of the T-38. Insignia of the United States on the aircraft. The aircraft lands. Jacqueline opens the cockpit. A man holds her helmet. Seated in the cockpit Cochran wears a cap. She gets off from the cockpit and shakes hand with a man.
A training film titled 'Unwatering Flooded Compartments' depicts different methods and equipment used for removing water from flooded compartments in ships in the United States. Animation depicts two kinds of unwatering equipment -- permanently installed drainage equipment, and auxiliary portable equipment and their usage. Steam or air driven reciprocating pumps. Motor driven centrifugal pumps. Eductors installed in drainage pumps. A personnel turns a valve. Another personl operates a remote equipment control board. Animations depicts different kinds of drainage systems. Total installed capacity of the drainage system. Water comes out from a hole in the ship.
Occupation of Denmark by the Nazis during World War II. The operation was code named Operation Weserubung. German troops stand under an arch on a street. Buildings on either side of the street. The troops lay a swastika on the street for recognition by aircraft. German Air Force aircraft in flight over a building. German troops talk with Danish soldiers. Danish and German soldiers smoke. The German aircraft in flight. A Nazi Eagle on a door. Two German officials stand in front of a building. The arms of Danish police on a bench. Danish police being disarmed. English civilians being loaded into a truck. Street scenes in Copenhagen, Denmark. German soldiers talk to civilians. King Christian X of Denmark rides a horse. Danish civilians and troops in a truck in the background. Soldiers direct traffic. Crowd in the streets. A German truck loaded with soldiers passes through the crowd. A large crowd at a dock. Supplies are loaded from a ship. A German ship underway and ice floating on water. Sailors stand on the deck of the German ship. German troops guard a large bridge. Trucks back up to railroad cars for loading bombs. The trucks are loaded with the bombs. They pull out of the railroad station. Bombs loaded in a truck and the railroad station in the background. The trucks drive past down on a road. A hill in the background. Troops in trucks advance.
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