A man sits in the U.S. Navy's small helicopter named "Rotocycle" at Long Island in New York. Helicopter takes off. Helicopter flies.
People in trucks come down during the 46th Anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China. People stand outside the gate and soldiers at the gate. The U.S. and Chinese Officers gather at review stand. Chinese policemen stand near a jeep under a tree. Troops march at parade ground. Army band stands. Children hold the Chinese flag. Chinese officers and women stand and see the parade. Dignitaries at balcony. Soldiers hold Chinese flags. Soldiers stand and then march.
Camera pans over scrapped U.S. military aircraft that have been pushed off a cliff at the American Naval Air Base in Tsingtao (Qingdao) Shantung Province, China, in 1946. A jumbled mess of parts, mostly unidentifiable. Some larger parts include a fuselage and some wings,displaying the American roundel.
Chinese military band play during the 44th founding anniversary of the Republic of China in Taipei, Taiwan. Chinese flag waves. Sailors in attention near the U.S. flag. Navy officers. Soldier women and people. A man stands in aircraft. Children see parade. People see inside artillery. A boy makes faces.
Dramatization shows silhouette images of people in New York City. A man instructs and others follow him. A man holds a banner in his hand. People hold the U.S. flags and banners during a procession. People hold a man. A man throws a smoke bomb.
U.S. Ambassador to Iran, Henry Grady, walks with a manager of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, at its main facility in Abadan, Iran. The manager is explaining aspects of the plant to Grady. Next, the manager is seen pointing out features of the facility to W.Averell Harriman, President Truman's personal representative, as Ambassador Grady stands behind them. Change of scene, shows the manager and ambassador Grady high on a platform overlooking the facility, as Harriman joins them. They stand with huge pipes behind them as the manager points out items of interest in the expanse of petroleum tanks and other things below them. View from behind the guests and accompanying escorts, looking out at set of 13 tall chimneys rising from building in the facility yards below. More clusters of chimneys are seen in far background.
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