U.S. Secretary of Defense, Louis Johnson, departs for the Hague in Washington DC. Louis Johnson converses with Netherlands officials. They speak to Senator Millard E Tydings of Maryland. Johnson and Tydings wave before entering the aircraft. Other officials board the aircraft. Officials depart to attend 3rd meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Defense committee.
New recruits being inducted into the U.S. Army. They arrive at boot camp and undergo basic training: marching; calisthenics; weapons training on firing range. Recruits receiving technical training. Instructor describing Bohr atom model. Army soldiers receive training regarding new hi-tech weapons systems.
Smoke rises from exploding shell. U.S. Army soldiers crawl across a field and into trenches, with live machine gun fire directed low over their heads. They employ their weapons, including flame throwers, and attack several buildings, cutting their way through barbed wire in the process. Smoke fills the area.
United States ships in the Pacific Theater. United States F-6 aircraft lands on flight deck of U.S. carriers. Sailors run towards the aircraft as it lands. Sunset in the background as F-6 aircraft land on flight deck.
Damage control parties fight a blaze on flight deck of U.S. aircraft carrier struck by Japanese Kamikaze airplane. They employ hoses and throw torrents of water on fire. Heavy black smoke billows from the fire. (World War II period).
A U.S. Naval supply ship at the pier in Alameda, San Francisco Bay, during World War 2. American sailors aboard the ship. Two men stand on the pier near the ship. Smoke emitted from a stack as the steamer leaves the pier. Hills in the background. Ship enters the Bay.
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