Launch of the world's first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, at shipyard of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Connecticut. Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower breaks a bottle of champagne on the bow of USS Nautilus as a part of tradition. The submarine slides down the ways into the waters of the Thames River. A Navy CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter flies above USS Nautilus underway in Long Island Sound..
United Kingdom Prime Minister Clement Richard Attlee addresses the United States Congress in Washington DC. Prime Minister Attlee speaks of the problems confronted by Britain and the United States. He talks about the United States being a super power and yet not misusing its power. He states that a common man should feel secure and peace is a moral progress. Congressmen applaud after Attlee's speech. United States President Harry Truman and United Kingdom Prime Minister Attlee in a meeting discussing atomic energy. They pose for a photograph with other officials.
Animated map shows the Japan Sea. Military Police at the Omori Prisoner of War Camp after Japanese surrender in World War II. Views of Japanese war criminals in Omori Prisoner of War Camp. Among those seen are Hideki Tojo, Colonel Hashimoto, General Koki Hirota, General Kuroda, General Homma, and others. They are seen eating inside the prison. But Tojo is shunned by the others (because of his blundered suicide attempt) and eats alone. Hideki Tojo eating alone in prison cafeteria. United States soldiers hunt for valuable Japanese treasure in a Japanese barnyard. They find bricks of silver in an underground sealed room. Valuable metal worth millions of dollars are found from defeated Japanese. A pile of silver bricks.
United States GIs with their equipment in Germany during World War II. A German shepherd walks with a flock of sheep on a street of a town. United States Army jeeps and trucks parked on the ground. Vehicles covered with snow. A United States GI removes snow from the windshield of an army jeep.
Wrecked German airplanes in Paris, France during World War II. Various types of damaged German aircraft on the ground. A United States GI inspects the airplanes. Nazi symbol on the aircraft. The GI looks at the propeller of one of the aircraft.
United States GIs in Germany during World War II. The GIs unload gasoline barrels from a United States Army Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain onto an army truck. The aircraft taxis on a runway. '100 Octane Highly inflammable' written on the gasoline barrels.
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