Aboard the USS Essex (CVA-9) in the Mediterranean Sea, off Lebanon, during the crisis in 1958. Radar men on watch monitoring scopes. U.S. Navy sailors aboard ship speak into mikes of their headsets. Room is dimly lit. Teletype machines operation in the communication's center. Two junior officers and an enlisted man walk into the room, look at the message received and tear the message from the machine. They leave quickly.
Republic F-105 Thunderchief and a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter in flight. KC-135 Jet tanker refuels a bomber. Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carries an X-15 while in flight. Convair B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber in flight. Ships at sea. Delta jet takes off from carrier USS Enterprise. Two-engine bomber takes off from carrier. H-34 helicopter takes off from the carrier. Mr. Hunter and Commander Harper chat on bridge of Enterprise. U.S. Navy airship blimp takes off from deck of aircraft carrier. Destroyer pass carrier. Alfa missile launched from destroyer and explodes in the sea. Guppy-type submarine. Atomic subs Seawolf SS-575 and Nautilus SSN-571. Atomic sub Skate SS-578 breaks through ice at North Pole. Admiral George W. Anderson on bridge of Skate. Launch of the submarine George Washington SSBN-598.
U.S. marines come up elevator of the USS Enterprise and board HRS-1 (H-37) helicopters. Two HR2S1 helicopters leave deck of carrier. LVTs on way to shore. Marines rush off LVTs through surf to shore. SP antitank vehicle with 106 recoil less rifles and 50 cal machine gun moves up and fires. Jupiter missile launches. Soldiers advance and planes in flight. Ship refuels in heavy sea. Night view in desert United States of atomic bomb explosion during a test.
Big guns manufacture for new fighter aircraft at Washington Navy Yard. Aircraft overhead. U.S. Navy officer points on a map. Captain and crew on ship's deck. Warship underway at sea. Explosions in water.
Fires and earthquake in Niigata, Japan. Electric poles broken and heavy destruction caused after earthquake in Japan. Showa Shell Sekiyu oil depot catches fire. Huge clouds of smoke arise from depot. Train compartments burn near the railway track. People take refuge in city parks. 1964 Niigata earthquake damage shows tilted houses and buildings destroyed by liquefaction. Workers dig and use shovels. People lined up for drinking water and rations. Children and old women sitting on the grass at a park.
Food and gasoline ration in United States during World War II. People lined up outside a grocery store. Signs in the stores show lack of supplies. People at the counters. Gasoline Ration Card's close view. Women and men at the stores. Cars at a fueling station in Washington DC. A service station attendant pumps gas into a waiting automobile that has proper ration cards to receive the fuel. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background behind the car being fueled. Roads and streets with very little traffic due to gas rationing. View of pigs hanging from hooks in a meat processing plant, and being moved by meat packing workers along the processing line. Sign at the grocery store window reads 'Tuesday is meatless and also is eat-less'. Housewife in kitchen pouring fat through strainer and saving the fat oil for war effort. Young woman turns in a can of fat at the market and receives coupon for extra meat points and 4 dollars per pound of fat. Woman in kitchen crushes a tin can and puts it in a scrap metal bin to return to store for recycling. Giant trucks dumping tin collected for recycling into waiting rail boxcars. Cargo trains filled with scrap aluminum moving along railway tracks. At conclusion of World War II, sign at the fuel station reads 'Gas Rationing off No Stamps Required'. Man fuels a car. Late 1930s and mid 1940s era cars move on the road.
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