Body of a Pilot Francisco Sarabia brought to Mexico City DF in Mexico. An U.S. Army air plane on ground. Body of Francisco Sarabia. Crowd around the air plane. Air plane taxis. Police use force to stop the crowd. Crowd on street.
U.S. and Laos leaders meet for discussions on formation of a coalition government in Laos. Map of Laos. Plane comes cargo being unloaded from the plane. U.S. President John F. Kennedy meets Chairman of the council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev in Vienna, Austria. Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos disembark. He goes away in a car. Communist head of Laos comes and journalists interview him. The Laos Right Wing Military Chief being interviewed in Laos. Officials confer in a meeting.
Invasion of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Coming aboard the flagship of Task Force 58 is Admiral Marc Mitscher. Conferences in Guam come to an end. Officers walk. U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander in Chief, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sends an armada of 1400 vessels to Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands. Fleet underway to Okinawa. Troops of the U.S. 10th Army division play cards, play music and dance on the deck to entertain themselves. Officer distributes money to the soldiers aboard the ship. Troops stand with money. Guns of the fleet fire at land. Rockets being fired at shore. Landing crafts reach the shore. Troops walk on the shore in Okinawa. Japanese dugouts and pillboxes being destroyed with grenades. Soldiers talk and share food with civilians on the island.
U.S. troops enter the town of Carigara on the Philippine Islands. A line of half tracks enters the town. Dust fills the area. A group of Filipino guerrillas enters the town. A line of GIs enter the town. A battery of three U.S. field artillery pieces fires at Japanese positions. The soldiers stand near artillery pieces. (World War II period).
Ten horses of the U.S. Olympic horse jumping team are loaded aboard a Pan American World Airways DC-6 Cargo Clipper in New York City. They are bound for Stockholm, Sweden. A trainer is seen leading a horse up a long ramp, into the aircraft cargo hold. Members of the U.S. Olympic Team: Frank Chapot, William Steinkraus (Team Captain), Hugh Wiley, and Warren Woffard. pose in front of the aircraft: View inside the aircraft, as the horses are being secured in their stalls.
Foreign students meet U.S. President in Washington D.C. High school students representing 33 foreign nations meet U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower at the White House in Washington D.C. Students meet the President. They shake hands with him. They present statue and gifts to him.
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