Summary of events after World War II. Statistics shows reduction in armed forces after WWII. Reduction in arms shows submarines, ships and other arms. Bombers are destroyed. Blasting planes on airfield. Junk piles and wreckage of equipment. Factories are converted to peacetime production. Workers operating various machinery in factories. Delegates seated in the UN assembly. Andrei Gromyko walks out of a debate on the Iranian question. The U.S. proclaims the Marshall Plan. Various delegates at Paris meet including Winston Churchill. Animated map of Europe demonstrates the expansion of communism and the iron curtain post WW2. Supplies for Europe are loaded on ships at docks as part of Marshall Plan. Reconstruction work progresses in Europe. Farmer rides new American tractor (Massey Harris tractor) away from ship docks and back to his farm. Communists demonstrate and blockade Berlin. Russians reinforce blockade. U.S. planes flying supplies to blockaded city in Berlin Airlift operation. U.S. military planes landing on airfield of Germany. Berlin Blockade is lifted by Russians.
Men examine a low wing monoplane bearing name of Continental Airways, parked on airfield at Washington-Hoover Airport . A biplane taxis on field and takes off. Truck driven on airfield. Biplanes parked along field.
Outtakes from the Memphis Belle documentary movie. Combat missions of B-17 planes in France. Long line of B-17s on airfield in England. B-17s taxis to take off point on airfield. B-17 in flight. Tracer fired at aircraft over water. Aerial view of coastline. Bombs burst over ground targets. Five B-17s in formation. Side gunner of B-17. Ten B-17 flying over clouds. Bomb bay view of bombs falling. Flak bursts. Large formation of B-17s, one plane's engine on fire. B-17 on fire goes down. B-17 drops bombs. Smoke rises from explosions on ground. (World War II period).
Outtakes from the Memphis Belle documentary movie. B-17 plane on airfield in England. B-17 plane taxis on airfield. Tail guns of B-17. Right wing engines of B-17 in flight. Bombardier in plane.
Famous World War 1 aviators from various countries. Several aviators stand on airfield in Belgium. Aviators of World War I are decorated, seen in footage from several different ceremonies. Includes French aviators Georges Guynemer and Charles Nungesser, German pilot Manfred Richthofen (the Red Baron), and Canadian aviator Billy Bishop in ceremonies. A plane on the airfield. King Albert of Belgium is taken for a flight over Germany. Planes in flight. View of aviator Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, smiling beside a barracks building. View of soldiers gathered at Quentin Roosevelt's grave with primitive cross marker dated July 14, 1918.
Activities at an airfield in Egypt. Men stand near a parked Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft on the airfield. The President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and other dignitaries walk towards the aircraft. The President shakes hands with the aircrew. The President and officials board the aircraft and admire its luxurious appointments. View of the interior of the aircraft. The President descends steps from the aircraft. Steps are painted with name: "MISRAIR."Honor guard of Egyptian soldiers marches past the President and his party.
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