A man at weather bureau explains process of forecasting weather and transmitting it to other stations and to the public. Weather information transmitted to ships and air mail pilots.
Dropsonde weather reconnaissance instrument is ejected from a Boeing WB-47B in Miami, Florida. WB-47B fuselage section and crew at the air station. Airman places a dropsonde into the tail section. Shots of dropsonde being ejected from WB-47B and falling through the atmosphere. Insignia of 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron seen on crewman flying suit.
Hungarian women prisoners examined by doctors at Penig concentration camp in Germany in World War 2. Doctors examine patients with gangrenous wounds. Prisoners taken away on litters to a former German Air Force hospital by Red Cross. Nazi forced to look after the victims. Patients treated by American doctors in a hospital.
A United States P-51A Mustang fighter plane of the 1st Air Commandos, flown by Lieutenant Colonel Grant Mahony, lands at an airstrip in Tamu, Burma. Colonel Phil Cochrane and Lieutenant Colonel Arvid Olson inspect the airstrip constructed by United States 900th Airborne Engineers in World War II. P-51 Mustang takes off.
Cattle pulls his plow as a farmer plows his field in Puerto Rico. Man loads sugar cane into a truck. The S.S. Catherine is docked at a passenger terminal. (She makes overnight runs between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands.) Men are seen moving about on the wharf, where some cargo is sitting. . View of farms. A small tugboat pulls a heavily laden barge in coastal waters. A sign reads 'god bless America'. New cars are seen on the docks. Some are covered with cloth covers. Cars of the era are parked at the curb near a sidewalk. Aerial views from an airplane flying over the coastline. Views of Fort San Felipe del Morro from the air.
United Nations forces during the Korean War. Troops being served food near Yalu river on the Manchurian border during the Korean War. Soldiers being served food on the occasion of thanksgiving. Soldiers at a machine gun as a mess Sargent brings the Thanksgiving dinner for them. Chinese prisoners being rounded up as China enters the Korean War. United States 1st Marine Division troops and tanks retreat from the area. They move along the Hagaru road under extreme climatic conditions. Tents, trucks and tanks at the camp area. United States Air Force C-47 and C-119 aircraft drop food supplies by parachutes. Abandoned supplies and equipment being burned by the UN troops as they prepare to leave the area.
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