Retrospective view inside a former German submarine pen in France, as narrator mentions its former use in World War 2. View from outside the structure. An American Airlines Douglas DC-4 passenger plane flying over Manhattan Island, New York City, with Empire State Building visible among other skyscrapers below. Aerial view of New York harbor, with ocean-going ships docked at terminals below. Traffic moving in the harbor, including barges, tugboats, and ships, displaying various national flags.
Film opens with aerial view from overflying aircraft, of the aircraft carrier, U.S. Navy ship USS Independence (CVA-62) underway. Scene shifts to Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia, where a ramp is filled with a variety of aircraft. A pair of Douglas A-4 Skyhawk aircraft are taxiing. View of men in the Control Tower with large radar array in background. Two A-4 Skyhawks approach and one lands as the other goes around. Complete change of scene, to Halifax Nova Scotia, where warships of the Royal Canadian Navy are berthed. In waters off the Grand Banks, the Canadian Navy Aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) is seen making way at high speed during anti-submarine exercises.
Allied troops in France during World War II. A bulldozer levels land for constructing airstrips. A group of men discusses. Ground troops unload a truck. Several aircraft in flight. Airplanes land at a constructed airstrip. Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D Eisenhower and U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall arrive. They both view Allied positions. A damaged airplane on the ground. Artillery is fired and explosions and smoke rise. Tanks pass along the streets of a city.
Commander of Soviet Artillery battery descends stairway through wooded area and gives orders to Navy coastal defense artillerymen accompanying him. Brief glimpse of steel turret housing a 12"/52 (30.5 cm) gun (railroad gun). Soviet officer using set of dividers and charts to plot firing plan. He phones instructions to naval gun crew, who remove cover from gun barrel. Entire area is wooded, and the gun is covered in tree branch camouflage. Steel side of gun turret contains Russian (cyrillic) writing and the date: 1943, Next sequence shows turret rotating and barrel elevating as gun positions to fire. Sailors carry several powder bags that they place on a roller conveyer along with a shell. All are brought to the gun breech and loaded. Views of the gun being fired, and explosions of shells in distance.
U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon visits the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. President Nixon shakes hands with civilian employees. The President visits the Hall of Heroes and looks over the displays of medals. Photographers take photos. Nixon moves ahead with Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle G. Wheeler. He speaks to officials in an auditorium. View of the Pentagon building. Cars of the President and his party pull out of the parking area. Views of an officer and his medals.
U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon visits the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The Pentagon building with military units in the foreground. A gun salute. Color guard standing with flags. President Nixon and other officers standing beside the building. Photographers take photos. Various service honor guards standing.
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