A report covering the expansion and modernization of U.S. ICBM force, Norton AFB. Minuteman II missile on trailer truck. ICBM crew working around Minuteman II. Minuteman II erected. Test launch of Minuteman II at Cape Kennedy space center in 1964. Missile base under construction at Malmstorm AFB in Montana. Deactivation of first generation Titan I and Atlas D missiles, updating of Atlas for space boosters. Shrouded missile on trailer truck. Animated map of U.S. showing 14 air bases from where Titan I and Atlas D missiles are transferred to Norton AFB in California. Map shows Minuteman I turnover to SAC (Strategic Air Command) at Warren AFB in Wyoming. Minuteman I transfer ceremonies attended by military, state, and local dignitaries. Major General J. L. McCoy speaking at microphone. Minuteman control center building at Norton AFB. General McCoy with other officers discussing in conference. Officers on field looking over drawings for building new missile launch site.
English war bride and her child are reunited with her American husband from Oregon, as she arrives in New York City on a ship from England after World War II. He expresses joy at being reunited, and states that, before the war, he was in the lumbering industry in Oregon. Asked about more children, she says they would like to have a son.
Adolf Hitler in a meeting with Philippe Petain in Montoire, and then with Francisco Franco in Hendaye France. Soldiers stand in lines. Philippe Petain gets out of a car in Montoire-sur-le-Loir. Pierre Laval beside him. Petain exchanging salutes with German officers. Cameramen take photographs. Petain shakes hands with Adolf Hitler. Scene changes to Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering relaxing and laughing as they ride in Hitler's train car. A sign reads Hendaye, the train's next stop. A bridge in view. A train arrives. 'Espana' written on train. A crowd gathered at the station. Adolf Hitler stands at the station and greets Francisco Franco. Both men walk on the station. Nazi flags hung. They board Hitler's train and pull dark curtain down over window of the meeting room on the train. (Opening slate states 1941, but that is incorrect. This event was October 24, 1940). (World War II period).
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Premier Joseph Stalin at Yalta Conference (Argonaut) in Crimea, Russia. 'Big Three' seated on chairs in courtyard. They pose for photographs. Premier Molotov, William Harriman and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius stand behind them. Alexander Cadogans in the far background. Cameramen take photographs.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Premier Joseph Stalin at Yalta Conference (Argonaut) in Crimea, Russia. 'Big Three' seated on chairs in courtyard. Premier Molotov and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius stand behind them. Dignitaries enter a building. Sarah Churchill, Cathy Harriman and Mrs Anne Boettiger talk to each other.
Funeral for Soviet Communist leader Mikhail Frunze. Streams of Russian mourners form lines in streets and pass by the body of Frunze, lying in State, on a catafalque in the Hall of Columns of the Labor Temple, Moscow. Family members are seen as well as honor guards of Soviet leaders, including: Lev Kamenev; Joseph Stalin; Mikhail Kalinin; and Mikhail Tomsky. Officials bearing the coffin of Lenin from the train station. Soldiers and citizens mass in Red Square, passing by the Mausoleum and Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
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