The plane of the President of the United States, the U.S. Air Force One, flies in the sky in the United States. Signal lamps blink on the wings and the fuselage of the plane. The VC-137 Stratoliner residential airplane taxis on the runway and takes off at dusk. The plane becomes airborne and gradually turns to its left. It flies low in the sky during the evening hours.
The plane of the President of the United States, the U.S. Air Force One, flies in the sky in the United States. The VC-137 Stratoliner airplane, with its flash lights on, lands on a runway at midnight. Signal lamps lighted along the runway to enable safe landing. The plane lands on a wet airstrip. Another plane lands just after it. The plane taxis on the runway and takes off at midnight.
Visit of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary Communist Party of the Soviet Union to United States. He meets President Richard Nixon. Naval officers on alert at Navy Yard. Nixon and Brezhnev arrive at Navy Yard and board a yacht Sequoia. Flags of United States and Soviet Union on mast of the yacht. Both the leaders stand on its deck. Press photographers take photos as Sequoia cruises down Potomac.
A vast ship building program to be undertaken by the Maritime Commission in the United States. The newly appointed Chairman of the Maritime Commission Joseph P. Kennedy, speaks on the proposed plan to build new merchant ships. He emphasizes the necessity for a complete refurbishing of the Merchant Marine. Outmoded merchant ships built during World War I. Several ships docked at the New York harbor. People cheer and wave as the new ocean liner SS Rex sets sail. Flagship of the United States Line, the Leviathan, in dry dock. The British ocean liner Queen Mary leaves for Europe. Foreign merchant ships entering and leaving the harbor.
A World War II recruitment film bulletin 'Wanted: Men for Merchant Marine' asking men to join the United States Merchant Marines and go aboard Liberty Ships and other cargo ships supporting the United States war effort during World War 2. A World War II American ship convoy at sea. An official works in Ship Personnel Office aboard a ship. Merchant seamen board a ship. A group of engineers, seamen, radio telegraphers, cooks, bakers and mess men during a training. Supplies are loaded onto a ship. Tanks, bombs and locomotive are hoisted by a crane and loaded onto the ship. Seamen work aboard the ships. Narrator speaks of military materiel delivered by ships and a series of images of American military equipment in action in Europe during World War 2 is shown: Line of camouflage U.S. army tanks fire. U.S. Army Air Force bomber aircraft at an airfield including one with a damaged nose. U.S. Army tractor hauls a long artillery piece on war torn streets of a European city. U.S. Army tank moving by fast on a European paved roadway. A merchant ship at sea. A ship convoy at sea.
Merchant seamen sign Maritime Commission papers in the United States. The seamen standing in several queues. United States Merchant Marine personnel sitting at a table. The seamen sign Maritime Commission papers. They leave the queues after signing.
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