Brief view of model of the original USS Savannah steam powered sidewheeler ship of 1819. View of steam plant inside a newer ship. Pistons driving crankshaft. Fireman stoking boiler with coal. View of oil storage tanks. The USS United States steamship underway. Cargoes being loaded aboard a freighter at a pier. Grain being loaded into a cargo vessel. A foreign port. An ocean liner. Engineers discussing nuclear power. Animation of atoms in motion. An early nuclear power plant installation in the United States. An open view of fuel rods in a nuclear reactor (referred to as an atomic furnace by the narrator). View of Control room in nuclear power plant with many lit dials, levers, buttons, and controls. Engineers placing cutouts of reactor on diagram of ship. Model of the NS Savannah. President Eisenhower speaking.View of U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Marine architects of George G. Sharp incorporated, working on design of the NS Savannah. Cutaway model showing position of reactor inside the ship.
The NS Savannah is seen at Nuclear Service facility, Galveston, Texas, for reconditioning before making new port visits. Here she is delayed several months by labor dispute involving her nuclear engineering crew. Maritime Administrator, Nicholas Johnson, poses with ship's officers from the American Export Isbrandtsen lines, who are the new operators of the Savannah. The Savannah departs on a mission involving new ports of call. U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson comments from his office regarding the mission of the NS Savannah. View of cargo being loaded aboard the Savannah. Views of a world globe. Views of the NS Savannah underway.
The first American newspaper in Aachen, Germany is printed during World War II. Crowds in the streets of Allied-occupied Aachen. A U.S. General speaks as the first American newspaper to be printed in Germany is dedicated. Presses roll and the first copies are produced which are then purchased and read by German civilians.
Fire fighting aboard a U.S. Landing Ship Tank (LST) in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War 2. Crewmen load handy-billies, axes & other fire fighting equipment from ATL-114 to LC(FF)-370. LST-1170 on fire due to a Japanese kamikaze suicide attack. Many small boats surrounding the LST try to douse the fire using fire hoses. Men pass cans of foamite up towards fire fighting foamite generator. On the bridge of the LC (FF) an officer directs the fire fighting. A hose with a fog nozzle attached to it is passed across to assist fire fighting crew. Foam generator nozzle pours foam down a ventilator. Fire damage on the boat deck of the LST.
Landing craft traffic at a beachhead in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. U.S. Army radiomen use a radio field set. A man holds a bullhorn to direct the landing craft traffic. A line of soldiers handle supplies off an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel).
Activities aboard a U.S. Landing Ship Tank off the coast of Okinawa, Japan after World War II. The bow of the LST (Landing Ship Tank) underway. An LST convoy underway. Gun crew on the bow of the LST. Soldiers pack equipment on the deck of the LST. Other landing crafts underway at sea.
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