A film titled ' Soviet Siberia and Central Asia Americas new gateway to Asia' depicts U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace journey to China through Soviet union. Animated map of the world. A portion of the globe. A U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster takes off from Bering Strait and lands in Yakutsk. U.S. Vice President being greeted by Soviet leaders and chairman of council of the people's commissars of the Yakutsk Republic. The Vice President with other leaders look at the original wooden tower left in the city. They stand in front of a library. Civilians in the background. The children meet Vice President Wallace. He visits an agricultural station and talks to the people who carry agriculture in the north.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet Union. An animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President visits Kazakhstan. A man on a horseback. Sheep, camel and cattle graze in the field. Kazakh man uses a pole with a running noose on it to lasso a horse. The people cook donuts. The horsemen smoke American king size cigarettes for the first time. Women make tea in the open. The coal mine industry in Karaganda. Open cut coal pits. Bulldozers scoop of the earth to revile of coal. Tracks being laid and the trains moves into the cut coal pits. The equipment being used in the mines. Wallace speaks to the engineers. The machines and trains being operated by women. They then visit a copper mine also known as Soviet anaconda. A crane picks up the copper.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet Union. An animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President visits Tashkent. A building. Turkish people on streets and seated on a bench. Cars on street. People cross the street. The Vice President and U.S. ambassador to Moscow William Averell Harriman arrive for a diplomatic meeting. Mexican ambassador to Moscow. They greet each other. Vice President wears a cap. Vice President and others are seated on a bench as they talk. Wallace talks to a Chinese ambassador. He looks at the cotton field. Two women open the tap and water runs down from the irrigation channel . It flows into the cotton farm. Mexican Ambassador and Wallace look at the wine fruit. The fruits grown by Uzbek farmers. Vice President and others seated as they are entertained by the farmers. The Vice President visits the last city Alma Ata. People, buses and cars on streets. A crew members work on a plane and being introduced. A pilot in a cockpit. The crew turns the propeller. The vice president gets in the plane and U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster takes off.
U.S. Army 25th Division Liaison Psychological warfare team (Psy War) near Kumwha valley in Korea during the Korean war. A Psy War team in the fields near Kumwha. A Chinese interpreter Ee Boo Yen speaks over a hand mike. The vehicles of Psy-War team. A loudspeaker is set on a tripod. U.S. Corporal Roger Mohr speaks into a mike and makes a tape recording of it. A functional tape recorder. U.S. Private First Class Jospeh Sisto works on the tape recorder. A loudspeaker. A team jeep is parked on a filed in the front lines.
India give U.S. President Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower the greatest acclaim. People crowd at an airport. Ike climbs down a ladder. Indian President Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru greet him. Flags of the United States and India. Indian soldiers stand in a squad. U.S. President escorted by an Indian officer reviews the soldiers. Men with cameras at the podium. People around the podium at New Delhi airport. U.S. President gets into a car. On the third day of his visit he opens an agricultural fair. Both the Presidents seated at a podium. An elephant garlands Ike's daughter- in- law Barbara Jean Thompson and son John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower. They take an elephant ride. Young children look at them and wave. They attend a party at the Mughal Gardens in which Ike scores a brilliant triumph.
U.S. soldiers fire howitzers at 25th Infantry Division Headquarters in Cu Chi, Vietnam. Use of FADAC (Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer) in U.S. 25th Infantry Division Headquarters. Battery D, 3rd Battalion, 13th Artillery, 25th Infantry Division fire M-110 SP 8-inch howitzer mounted on tank. A crewman carries canister. Another round is loaded and fired. Two men put shell on loader up to the howitzer. The howitzer is elevated. The crewman tightens fuse on the ground and hands it up on cradle. (Vietnam War period).
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