The eventual victory of Britain over Germany in the Battle of Britain during World War II. Damaged buildings of London following German blitz air attacks. British people cheer for victory as Winston Churchill greets them and walks with them in the streets. Remains of German planes and tanks. Graves of German soldiers. An injured woman on a stretcher. The British soldiers and citizen rescue workers rescue British people. A British soldier stands near a gun barrel. Soldiers stand with guns. Adolf Hitler with other German officers. A statue of an eagle with a Nazi sign. German soldiers march carrying their flags. A soldier looks through binoculars. A British woman speaks about what it was like to endure the German blitzkrieg attacks and a man is beside her on a bench. British aircraft and Royal Air Force aviators stand near. British soldiers march. Close-up of propeller starting on a British spitfire aircraft. British Supermarine Spitfire aircraft in flight. British soldiers singing.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. Two U.S. Navy Rhine patrol boats in Schierstein naval docks. Congressman Charles A. Halleck and Mrs. Halleck with a number of U.S. Navy, Air Force and Army officers board one of the patrol boats. The patrol boat backs out from the dock and goes off into the basin.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) in Wiesbaden, Germany. Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd arrives at the USAFE headquarters. He meets Lt. General William H. Tunner. The two men inspect the honor guard in the lawn in front of the USAFE headquarter building. The Senator is introduced to Mrs. William H. Pace, a dependent wife of a USAFE non commissioned officer, on the steps of the headquarter building. General Turner stands next to the group. The Senator and the General enter the headquarter building. A sign on a door reads 'Headquarters United States Air Forces in Europe'.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) in Wiesbaden, Germany. Congressmen Leon H. Gavin and Colonel Brown of the USAFE arrive at the headquarters. Congressmen Leon speaks to Karl A. Dimler on the steps of the building. A sign on a door reads ' Headquarters United States Air Forces in Europe'. Exteriors of the B-15, headquarters building.
A B-24 Liberator bomber ia parked on a field at Dearborn, Michigan, where it has been brought for Henry Ford to see. (Ford Motor Company will be making parts for the B-24.) Some ladders are placed near Ford Motor Company President, Edsel Ford converses with a U.S. Army Air Forces officer standing near the aircraft. Henry Ford is seen in the cockpit of the bomber. Later, he is seen inspecting the underside of the aircraft, accompanied by an Air Forces officer.
A low yield atomic explosion is conducted for experimental purpose. Smoke rises due to explosion. Sign reads "Headquarters Special Weapons Command." U.S. Air Force Major General John S. Mills steps from the headquarters building accompanied by another officer. View shifts to B-29 aircraft parked on the tarmac. A tug is pulling a B-47 aircraft. Mechanics on maintenance stands working on aircraft. Aerial view of an Air Force F-86 fighter airplane speeding past a B-29 in flight. View from directly overhead of a B-29 in flight over desert terrain. Scene transitions to view from directly underneath a B-29 in flight. Change of scene shows two women in the Weather Central of the Atomic Energy Control point, where teletype machines are printing out weather data. Meterologists plot wind data on maps. View of an atomic explosion. Closeup of the "atomic cloud." Technicians standing in a group, outdoors, observing the movement of the cloud. Next a technicial with a radiation counter walks to a helicopter, waiting with pilot already in the cockpit. He boards and the helicopter takes off. Closeup from the ground of the helicopter flying low directly toward the camera. Occupants can be seen as it fies past. Another post-explosion atomic cloud is seen. A B-29 in flight overhead. View of a pilot wearing helmet and oxygen mask, inside the cockpit. View of cloud through which they are flying. More views of pilot inside. A B-36 aircraft in flight with blue sky in background. Closeup of a C-47 aircraft in flight, with a sampler attached to the top of its fuselage. Crewman inside an aircraft attending to camera equipment. Other cremen at complex recording devices. View of a B-29 directly overhead. Crew members inside a cloud tracking aircraft. Men in a military control center receiving and plotting the cloud movement data. More views of B-29 and crew members inside. Men with hoses decontaminating a B-29 after it completed cloud tracking mission.
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