Newsreel 'Haitian crisis, Americans leave as war threatens'. Marshal law imposed in Port-au-Prince capital of Haiti as President Duvalier faces threat of invasion from the Dominic Republic. Americans are evacuated after warning from the U.S. State Department. Air crafts arranged for evacuates to fly to Miami. People hug and kiss each other as they part. Passengers seated in the planes. Several women and children are seen at the airport.
Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, visits the United States with her children. The aircraft lands at Idlewild Airport (Present day John F. Kennedy International Airport - Queens, NY 11430, USA). Princess Grace climbs down the air stair of their Pan Am (DC-8-32 “Clipper Caroline”) plane with her two children, Princess Caroline and Prince Albert. A lady-in-waiting, likely Madge Tivey-Faucon, accompanies Princess Grace and her children on the trip. A huge crowd including photographers and press greets her.
1365th Photo Squadron film titled 'DEW line sites get supplies'. Aerial supplies for Distant Early Warning (DEW) Lines DYE -2 station. C-130 Hercules flying over glaciers and Arctic terrain. View of DEW Lines site from air. Control Tower operated at DYE -2 station. Ski-equipped C-130 landing on snow. Unloading of C- 130 Hercules. C-130 takes off.
A child selling melons in an open air food market in Iran. Flies flying over the food. Native people wash clothes in a gutter and perform various chores. Natives fill water from a dirty river. Natives swimming in the river. Buffaloes bathing in the river.
Window washers hang in the air by thread-like belts hundreds of feet above ground. They clean the panes of the huge Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001). Breeze whips the men as they cling to narrow perches. Men on the streets raise their heads to look at the window washers above.
United States Army airmen of 20th Pursuit Group exhibit their skill. They form precise flight formation during record Air Corp maneuvers. They fly at a speed of 200 miles per hour.
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