Front entrance to Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A car entering the base as the guard salutes. F-4D Phantom Flight crew from the USAF 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing check in at the operations desk. They display the Black Sheep logo patch of the 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron on their flight suits. After signing in, they enter a briefing room where others are assembled. The Squadron Commander, a Lieutenant Colonel, briefs them on the planned "Crested Cap II" deployment route, to their NATO dual base, at Ramstein, Germany. He points out the flight path across the U.S. and across the Atlantic to Europe, on a map that also depicts places where refueling aircraft will be orbiting over the ocean. Views of the air crews putting on anti-exposure suits and equipment.
United States First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrives on a visit to India. Scene of a gate. A hilly region. People on a bullock cart. A man takes a small child in lap. A child on a woman’s shoulder. Farmers in a field. Statues carved at Khajuraho temple (VW2C+QJQ, Airport Area, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh 471606, India). Decorated and carved gates. Colorful paintings on walls. Women play sitar and tabla. A traffic policeman gives directions to traffic and shows 'Stop' sign. Students and teachers in a college. Carpenter and a mechanic at work. Large crowd. National emblem of India on a gate. Guards on horses. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India in a horse driven chariot in the Parliament premises. Air India plane lands at New Delhi airport. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi meet Jacqueline Kennedy, her sister Lee Radziwill and the American Ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith talks to Prime Minister Nehru. Children clap. United States Embassy in India. Ambassador Galbraith and Jacqueline Kennedy in Embassy. Prime Minister Nehru talks with Jackie Kennedy in a garden. Jackie Kennedy buys a silk sari. A girl welcomes her with garland in Benares. A man answers her questions during visit to an art gallery. She meets Indira Gandhi. Mrs. Kennedy meets Indian artists and addresses the people present. Jackie Kennedy puts a garland on an elephant's neck as a ritual.
People’s Republic of China Minister Zhou Enlai visits New Delhi, India. He is received by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Safdarjung Airport. Chinese Minister Zhou Enlai disembarks from an aircraft. He laughs and talks with other men. Cameramen take photographs of Chinese Minister Zhou Enlai and Prime Minister Nehru. Indian citizens demonstrate against Communist Chinese brutality in Tibet and frontier dispute. The crowd carries banners. The banners read 'Pandit Nehru, stand firm' and 'Beware of Chinese Imperialism'.
United States bombers attack Tobera Airdrome, an Imperial Japanese aerodrome located near Rabaul, Papua New Guinea during World War II. Aerial view of Tobera. A thick pillar of smoke and explosion rises from Tobera. Shadows of multiple aircraft are seen on aerial view of Tobera Airfield. Aerial view of the coast of Keravat, near Tobera Airfield. A group of bombers in flight. Five United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers flying away.
Mine workers trim loose ground and large chunks with pick-axes and iron rods at zinc mine in Franklin,NJ. Workers forget to trim muck-pile and huge chunk collapses. Shift boss orders miners to get out in time and avoid an accident.
Footage of nuclear explosion in the U.S. Trinity test of the first successful nuclear explosive device, in Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project. A mushroom cloud on the horizon. The smoke rises up into the air. Flames and black smoke from the atomic bomb explosion. Sun rays filter through the clouds. Explosion seen from a few different camera angles. (World War II period).
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