'$6,500,000 Pier Fire'. A raging fire rakes a railroad pier at Weehawken in New Jersey. Huge fire seen at the harbor. A cameraman takes pictures. Ambulances maintain vigil. In Tokyo, Japan, flames destroy the enlisted men's mess at the Palace Heights housing community. Enlisted men and their families flee from, from their Quonset type homes while the fire was being fought. People run to save their belongings.
Mix of actual footage and period dramatized scenes. Japanese fleet at sea on its way to attack Pearl Harbor in World War 2. Japanese fleet commander aboard carrier ship asks all personnel to face Tokyo and worship. Pilots take off. Pilots seen in cockpit. Japanese bomber planes in flight. (Dramatized) bombing on Pearl Harbor battleships and fuel storage tanks. Hickam and Wheeler Air Force fields are hit. Interior views of cockpit of Japanese aircraft. Japanese aircraft spot the British ship Prince of Wales and Repulse on their way to Singapore. A Japanese flier radios sinking of the British ship Prince of Wales. (World War II period).
Ambassador Maxwell D Taylor and General William C Westmoreland inspect Vietcong damage. A U.S. Air Force officer briefs them on the extent of the damage. Damaged barracks show rubble. Row of damaged barracks. (Vietnam War period).
Demonstration of defensive measures used at perimeter fence to guard against enemy ground attack. A fence in the dark. Totem pole flare burns at night in dark. Totem pole burns. A man with a dog in the foreground. Burning pole in the background and a fence in far background.
Many photographers crowd together to take pictures. Scene shifts to the subject: Major General W Austin Davis, Ballistic Systems Division Commander, presenting ,what appears to be a large facsimile missile launch key, to Lieutenant General Archie J Old, 15th Air Force Commander at a ceremony. View from behind photographers, taking pictures. Next, General Old is seen presenting launch keys to a pair of Nuclear and Missile Operations Officers, dressed in white flight suits. Closeups of the recipients, showing their missile badges, aviator wings, and their missile launch keys on chains around their necks.
Aerial view of a large Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) radar antenna array for strategic missile defense in the United States during the Cold War. Two large towers at the station. Animation shows satellites for early warning detection of missile launch. Sprint and Spartan defensive missiles, part of the U.S. Sentinel Program, are seen and test fired.
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