Film opens as camera pans over views of factory buildings in China after World War 2.. Closeup of a Chinese soldier pointing to a sign posted on a wooden building reading "U.N.R.R.A. It Is Belonged To Our Office. No Admittance To Anybody Or Armies To Enter." (UNRRA refers to the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.) Views inside an abandoned factory with remains of product scattered about as if occupants left in a hurry. Camera pans over outside of factory buildings that all seem quite intact.
The end of World War 2 in Europe. United States fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolts of the 362nd Fighter Group in Germany. Group commander's P-47 (multi-colored checkered cowl represents all three assigned squadrons) taxiing on an airfield. The planes take off. Group commander leads a formation of twelve P-47s from the 379th Fighter Squadron (yellow cowlings). They maneuver in flights of four each.
Allied occupation of Germany at the close of World War Two. Allied military vehicles pass through a village near Nuremberg, Germany. The military vehicles move along a road. Pedestrians walk along the road. Jeeps, tanks and trucks advance along the country road. Vehicles pass along a German road block. United States aviation engineers are loaded on the vehicles to reconnoiter new airfields in Germany. They pass a destroyed German Hetzer Jagdpanzer 38 light tank destroyer (Sd.Kfz. 138/2). Street scenes in the village. United States P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft in flight overhead.
A newsreel compilation of several unrelated shots. A P-40 of the 57th Fighter Group takes off from deck of the USS Ranger (CV-4). In an unrelated shot, a view looking back past tail of an aircraft after takeoff, with the USS Enterprise behind. A Douglas SBD Dauntless airplane takes off from a Yorktown class carrier. View back past its tail in a pre-war shot as an airplane leaves the Lexington behind. On Feb. 20, 1942, during World War 2, while en route to attack Rabaul,in New Guinea, the Lexington is attacked by eighteen Japanese planes. She shoots down several of them. Machine gunners firing. Bombs bursting in water near the ship. An F4F with collapsed landing gear near edge of flight deck. Black smoke rising from burning Japanese plane in water. Sky blackened with flak. Machine gun tracer bullets visible. Inserted scenes show the stern of a British carrier, and views of a bombing attack in the Mediterranean against a British Illustrious class carrier. Another inserted scene shows a lone sailor running the length of the flight deck on the USS Enterprise in the Battle of Santa Cruz. A Japanese airplane bursts into flames. Another is struck and dives trailing smoke.( An inserted view of U.S. Douglas TBD Devastators peeling off and launching torpedoes.) Douglas Dauntless aircraft recovering back on the Lexington. Flight deck full of aircraft as the Lexington makes way in the Pacific. Animated segment showing numerous drawings of aircraft carriers and airplanes headed toward Japan. (Inserted view of Four U.S. aircraft carriers, USS Lexington, USS Ranger, USS Yorktown, and USS Enterprise seen together in prewar maneuvers.)
An aircraft manufacturing plant in the United States during World War 2, focusing on manufacture and assembly of bomber aircraft canopies and gun turrets. Men and women war production workers work on transparent plexiglass gun turrets. Women workers stand behind the transparent canopies. They polish the turrets with machines and equipment.
First German units join NATO shield. German Army troops march on a field at Tannenberg Kaserne in Marburg, Germany. An aerial view of the city. German 2nd Grenadier Battalion marches. German Navy troops follow. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) military leaders arrive during the ceremony. They arrive by cars. The men greet each other. Several cars parked in the background. General Lauris Norstad arrives. The German troops salute. General Lauris Norstad reviews the troops. Flags of the 15 NATO nations and the NATO flag flying. A military band plays trumpets. Chief of the German Army Staff General Adolf Heusinger and General Lauris Norstad make short speeches. Cameramen take photographs.
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