Exterior building views of University of Maryland, Georgetown University, George Washington University and American University. United State military personnel go through a rifle drill. Man on diving board doing backward somersault into a swimming pool. Group of U.S. military soldiers play billiards and also watch a movie. Couples dancing in the early 1950s, including some swing dancing moves. Football game being played between Bolling Air Force base and Quantico Marine base teams.
Heavy road rollers working to level a new captured airstrip on Leyte Island during World War 2. U.S. soldiers work laying down Marston Matting. General MacArthur and General G C Kenny visit base near Tacloban on Leyte, Philippine Island and inspect the Marston mat effort. Good views of low flying P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight just above the airfield. Japanese bomber aircraft is fired upon by forces at the airbase. View of aftermath of bombing on Air Base, with destruction seen. Japanese planes attack a supply depot and destroyer ships. Views of several Japanese kamikaze attack aircraft flying toward U.S. Navy ships in Leyte Gulf and being shot off course. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft crashes into a landing craft infantry (LCI).
Opening slate of August 1950 newsreel refers to Seesaw battle on beachhead. It shows several U.S. soldiers manning a 105mm howitzer field piece on sandy ground beside a steep hill. A small American flag marks their position. Scene shifts to a bivouac area of large tents and vehicles on flat ground. A body of water and higher ground is seen in the background. Next, an American flag flutters in the breeze, on a makeshift flagpole, atop a hill, where several soldiers are maintaining a lookout. A large radio antenna is installed on the hill. Back down on the flat land, American troops are breaking camp, pulling down the large tents. At Pohang Air Base (K-3) American troops are pulling down tents and packing up to leave. A C-46 transport plane sits nearby and a C-47 transport is in the background. Troops burn papers in 55-gallon drums. Troops load Army trucks with tents and equipment. Aerial glimpse of the area showing high hills surrounding it. View from a farm field where farmers are working, as four USAF F-80C jet fighter planes take off from the nearby airfield. View from aircraft flying above, as an F-80 attacks a ground target. Gun camera view of American aircraft strafing an installation at the base of a mountain. Explosions from striking rounds. Pilot pulls up abruptly to avoid the mountain. Gun camera view of rockets being fired from attacking aircraft on lines of communication, including rail and port facilities. Fires and smoke from the attacks. A strafing attack against a moving railroad train. The aircraft passes through heavy black smoke as the pilot breaks off the attack. Two views from aircraft making low passes over a major fire at a port facility. Both times the aircraft barely skirts heavy billowing black clouds. A line of white smoke arising from ground targets. Change of scene to the beach area shown at opening of the film, where an American gun crew is firing an M-101 105mm howitzer field piece, viewed from several angles. Change of scene shows U.S. troops working their way carefully along a mountain road in the Pusan Perimeter. Two soldiers run back from the front of the column. Troops pausing while staying close to the mountainside. Suddenly, a shell bursts just a short distance fron them, raising dense black smoke. Soldiers run across the road to seek protection close to the mountain. American soldiers moving carefully behind a parked M8 light armored car. Various vies of American soldiers operating in the mountainous area. Glimpse of fallen North Korean soldiers in the brush and foliage. American troops display a captured North Korean flag. South Korean soldiers on sentry duty outside fortified compound. Armed South Korean soldiers escort two ambulatory wounded North Korean prisoners. Wounded American soldier on a stretcher, being removed from a Sikorsky H-5 helicopter, at an airfield and being carried toward the aircraft flight line.
Security system and procedures for movement of "priority A" components of Minuteman Missiles. A sign reads 'Designated Explosive area Convoy Assembly Area'. A convoy team leader briefs his team regarding use of deadly force, to protect "priority A" resources. Convoy escort transports "priority A resource" to launch site from base. Lead vehicle in movement team contains Convoy Security Officer and two Security Police escorts. Second vehicle is of local police guards and third is the convoy containing alarm system, maintenance personnel and two additional security policemen. Convoy Security Officer make periodic radio positions. A helicopter keeps eye on movement from air with the help of numbers written over roofs of vehicles. When the convoy halts. Security personnel make the area a national defense area and inform the main Launch base of the halt. Off duty recreation of guards include, spending time at recreational center or fishing ice skating and practicing archery. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
President John F. Kennedy emerges from a gate at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. 'Moon Base' written on top of the gate. Presidential convoy travels along the AFB at night. Moving along the convoy is a minuteman missile transporter. A minuteman missile in the background.
Mildred Gillars also known as 'Axis Sally', a female radio personality and Nazi German propaganda broadcaster in World War II, steps out of an aircraft on arrival at Bolling Air Force Base in southeast Washington DC. She is accompanied by female escort, WOJC Katherine Samaha, and department of justice men. Gillars has been brought to the U.S. to face a grand jury treason inquiry. Gillars and party are next seen exiting a Base Operations building and they get into a waiting car and are seen next entering a building of the Department of Justice. Next scene is unrelated and shows Judge Carl Hyaty receiving a certificate of appreciation from Secretary Kenneth C Royall. Scene changes to Brazilian General Sosa Molina being greeted by General Albert C Wedemeyer at Union Station. Visitors get into the car. Brazilian staff officers stand in front of building being greeted by General Molina.
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