U.S. Army soldiers and and French civilians on the streets in Le Mans, France, a few weeks after its liberation from German occupation in World War 2. Soldiers rest outside a movie house. Shops and cafes seen in the background. GIs, men and women drink outside a sidewalk cafe. A table of three British soldiers is seen. GI trucks pass by in the background. Trucks and tanks come down a street. A French girl gives apples to a truckload of American soldiers. French African soldier and African American soldiers fraternize and shake hands. They smoke cigarettes.
A contingent of Armed Axis troops, led by an officer, marches West through Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, intending to surrender to U.S. and UK forces of the Western Allies during final days of World War 2. A long line of German soldiers follows, some in horse-drawn wagons, and similar conveyances. Among the troops are some from Russia in German uniforms. Some of the surrendering German troops appear to be young boy soldiers.
Aircrew at the mess hall of an air base on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. A sign board at a snack bar reads Diego Burger. Airmen lined up at a service window. Palm trees seen in the background. U.S. Navy and USAF (United States Air Force) men go through a chow line in the mess hall. They serve food on their plates. Other crew members sit at a dinning table in the background. Exterior of the mess hall seen.
A U.S. Army sponsored model rocketry shoot at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, United States. High school boys gathered at the Camp A P Hill with rockets they designed and built by themselves. They prepare for the shoot of missiles. Army men aid the boys in rocket launching. A boy talks over a phone during a launch countdown. The boys watch as the model rockets are being shot.
Film opens showing slate reading: "Cosmos Pioneer, Soviets Orbit Man In Space" (referring to the sucessful space flight of Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin who orbited the Earth in a Vostok spacecraft on 12 April 1961, during the "space race."). Next, U.S. President John F. Kennedy is seen at a podium commenting on this Soviet achievement and reassuring Americans that he does not consider this a sign of the weakening of the free world.
Leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom meet in Washington DC. At the White House U.S. President John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan meet to affirm the Anglo-American Amity. They are accompanied by the Foreign Affairs advisers. The leaders and the advisers pose for the photographers.
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