Carrier Task Force demonstration in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy F9F-7s Cougar on the deck of the USS Shangri-La (Aircraft Carrier) as one of the aircraft is catapulted. U.S. Navy North American AJ Savage being catapulted from the port side. F9F-7 (Cougar) makes an arrested landing. Cougars flies overhead. F9F-7 lands aboard the ship. President of the Philippines, Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay and others of his party, on the bridge as they look at the demonstration. Formation of U.S. Navy Douglas ADs (Skyraider) in flight. U.S. Navy F2H-3 (Banshee) being refueled by an AJ-1 as they fly overhead. Pilots man F9F-7s (Cougar) on the deck of the carrier.
USS Skate submarine at the North Pole. USS Skate (a U.S. Navy submarine) underway and heads towards the North Pole. U.S. officers confer sitting around a table. U.S. Navy personnel work with equipment and on controls. The personnel receive weather information on screens in the control room. USS Skate surfaces at the North Pole. The personnel use tools to remove ice from USS Skate.
U.S. Marine Corps Communication activities at Peleliu, Palau Islands. MZ radio jeep driving behind truck loaded with drums along edge of airstrip. LVTs (Landing Vehicle Tracked), trucks and jeeps parked in the background. Marine operates blinker light aboard LST (Landing Ship Tank). U.S. flag flying from mast in the background. Marine is silhouetted against sky. Marine in dugout looks over paper and uses mike. Radio set in the background. Sailor aboard LST connects signal flags and hoists them. Sailor uses telescope aboard ship. LST in the background. Sailor signals with semaphore flags.
U.S. Navy film entitled, "the Battle for the Beaches." Several Higgins boat landing craft arrive at a shore and U.S. soldiers leave them to run ashore. Scene is then overlayed by the title slate. View of the White Cliffs of Dover, England. British civilians preparing defenses during World War 2. Civil Youth loading sand bags and erecting sand bag parapets around buildings. Home guard troops march up a road carrying rifles. British defenders occupying fortified positions They stand along a coastline looking out at sea. Street scene in an English village. Guards walking up along a barbed wire fence erected on the outskirts of the village. Film shifts to the German coastal Atlantic Wall defenses. German troops march along sandy shores containing all manner of obstacles at the water's edge. German officers stand on an overlooking cliff, and peer through binoculars. German sentry and large coastal gun barrel under camouflage net are silhouetted against light sky. Three German officers confer over plans for coastal defenses. View from above of slave laborers working and shoveling sand as they build defenses. German soldiers dismantling wooden forms around completed concrete fortifications. Glimpse of a huge German coastal gun being raised by a crane with heavy steel cables, as it is steadied by dozens of workers with hands on its barrel. German troops manning a machine gun in coastal defense position where a twin mounted antiaircraft gun is also seen. Momentary view of two German soldiers walk past rotating barrel of a huge coastal defense gun under a camouflage net. Workers, with shovels, placing fresh concrete to build up a section of concrete barriers along the coast. Allied troops storming a sandy shore from landing craft, as shells explode near them; possibly related to 1944 D-Day. One contingent are British soldiers. American troops landing at a beach from landing craft. Dead allied soldiers lying in the surf. Film shifts abruptly to U.S. Lieutenant General Mark Clark with some officers in Italy. In another switch of war theaters, General Douglas MacArthur is seen congratulating crew of a B-25 named "Smiling Jack." U.S. troops, in a training exercise, storming ashore from Higgins boats directly and closeup at the camera. They take up defensive positions in the sand, and move a jeep towing a field artillery piece.
Closeup of a freighter steaming past the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. Sailors riding on a commercial bus near the entrance to the U.S. Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia. Traffic at the road intersection. Entrance sign identifying the U.S. Navy base. Views of ships docked at the base. Flags flying outside the Headquarters of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT). View of the great map room inside the headquarters. Officers from various NATO countries seated for a briefing conducted by A U.S. Navy Captain circa 1954. The most senior officers, including the first SACLANT, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, step close to the map, where he speaks to the briefing officer. Closeup of the briefing officer moving images of aircraft over the map in the vicinity of the Portuguese Azore Islands. Closeup of straits of Gibraltar and then of Brest and Cherbourg on the coast of France; the Western approaches to the British Isles; the Norwegian coast; Iceland; Northern Labrador; the whole seaboard of Canada and the United States. View of waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Glimpse back to Admiral McCormick at the briefing map and then to a partially submerged submarine moving in water of the Atlantic. Narrator mentions subs of the 1960s. U.S. nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine launches a polaris missile. Final view of briefing map.
Introduction to production on alien enemy detention facilities in the U.S. during World War 2. U.S. flag at mast. Ground level views of U.S. Capitol building and street in front of it. A few 1940's era cars and a taxi cab drive by. Argyle R. Mackey, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, U.S. Department of Justice, introduces detention facility.
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