Headquarters building for the United States Seventeenth Air Force at Ramstein Air Base and NATO Command Base in West Germany. View of the building exterior, cars parked out front and flags flying over the building. Inside, an Air Force officer enters a room labeled "USAFE-MAC. Consolidated Airlift Command Post". Inside view of the room are shown with officers on the telephone in front of a large map of Europe. "USAFE Airlift Control Center. Aircraft of the U.S. Air Force taxi on a runway, including several C-130, C-141, and a C-5 readying for taking off. Aerial view of Soviet warships moving together in the sea. A missile is fired from one of the ships. View of Soviet paratroopers jumping from an airplane.
Long tank columns of the U.S. Army in Europe. View of the two stationary columns from the air. A formation of four F-4D Phantom fighter bomber aircraft flying overhead.
U.S. Coat Guard sailors aboard a Coast Guard cutter in the North Atlantic. The cutter attacks a German U-boat submarine. A sailor communicates over the radio. Explosions in the water. Sailor on deck. Oil from a damaged enemy submarine floats on the water. A CG cutter in heavy seas. Air and sea rescue boats patrol and search for airmen at sea. Sailors on the cutter. (World War II period).
A woman runs towards a U.S. Coast Guard Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane on the shore. She hands over a paper to the pilot in the cockpit. Crew prepare and push the plane towards the ramp, and then slide the plane off the ramp into the water. The woman stands back and watches as the plane taxis in the water and takes off. A light house off shore. Narration by James Cagney.
United States President Dwight D Eisenhower visits Spain. U.S. Army H-34 helicopter taxis on the runway at Torrejon Air Force Base in Madrid, bringing President Eisenhower and Spanish General Francisco Franco. The chopper parks in front of the President's plane. General Franco and Eisenhower halt before a large group. The President bows his head during the salute. United States and Spanish troops lined up. President Eisenhower gives a farewell speech at the AFB. A large crowd of Spanish officers surround the President. The president stands at the top of the ramp to the aircraft waving to the large crowd as he prepares to leaves. He dons his hat and steps into the plane. The plane taking off and airborne.
Charity Carnival in Rota, Spain. An elderly Spanish visitor and two young girls look up into sky, watching sky divers. A U.S. Army group from France which performed for the fair. A sky diver descending. He hits the ground near target at the Naval Station. A large group of visitors run over the field towards the sky diver. Four sky divers descending. One of the men coming down in a red and white chute, striking the ground. The chute collapses in the foreground. Sky diver folding up his chute, several children gather and look on. Sky diver rolling up his chute, surrounded by Spanish visitors.
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