People sit on chairs at a ceremony at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC. General John J Pershing cuts cake for Red Cross Fund drive, using a sword. Red Cross symbol represented on cake with candles. Elderly nurse woman wearing scarf on head which has embroidered Red Cross sign. The event was a fundraiser for a new memorial chapel. Scenes are from a May 1961 newsreel showing events 25 years earlier.
A man reads news about the Cuban Crisis. World map in background. Photo of John F Kennedy appears in background. Map of Cuba appears in background. Illustration shows circling region of Cuba. Another circle around the first circle.
The Army Air Forces demonstrate a new method of towing gliders in Dayton Ohio. A tow-bar is used in place of the longer cable. A man attaching tow-bar to glider. Plane takes off towing the glider.
Hosts of Navy and Marine News show on Carrier Theodore Roosevelt, talking at Norfolk Naval base in Virginia. They talk to a naval soldier. Sergio Sandoval, USS Barry coming out opening a gate. Jason Allmen with headphones talking in front of a screen. Various officers talking to hosts of a TV show of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. An officer giving injection to a man. An officer talking in front of a screen. An officer working on a computer. Woman putting mail box on a desk. Scenes of the mail section. Files in a rack. Galo Leguillon, Director Naval Postal Operations talking. An officer shows address on a box. People working in a mail office. Hosts holding steering wheel. A tugboat in sea. People working on decks of boat and ship. A boat sails toward ship. An officer on a tugboat. Navy officers on a ship. Hosts talking. One of them wears sailor's cap.
Atlanta submarine surfacing. The hosts of "Navy and Marine News" show in the submarine. Crewman of USS Baltimore submarine looks into periscope. A man holding steering of a submarine. Hosts talking to crewmen of various departments of submarine. Hosts talking. American football match going on between Navy and Boston Team. Navy people cheer. Host sees into the periscope. John Charlton, another host of the show sitting on chair in a hall and see a movie. Movie Midway shown. Scenes of plane crash. "Warner Brothers Pictures presents". Movie PT 109 is shown. Scene of map. Scene of boat PT 109. A crew member on it. A man in naval dress. Hosts talking. Various officers and Navy men talks about feeling proud. See through periscope. Scene inside the submarine.
Three men including Navy officers drive new horse power motorbike in a tank test in Los Angeles, California. Meter's needle moves. "Fairbanks" and "Springless" written on the meter. Boat drivers see back. A man stands near meter.
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