Soviet officers and soldiers review map in woods and then disburse and man various military vehicles in World War II. A crew occupies a Soviet T-38 tank that starts moving toward the camera. A Soviet BA-10M heavy armored car moves past the camera. Two Soviet soldiers together lift a bomb and secure it under the wing of a fighter bomber airplane. Another T-38 tank passes the camera. A formation of Tupolev ANT-40(SB) bombers in flight overhead. Soviet infantry marching through fields. Mounted Soviet cavalry passing the camera. A truck pulling an open trailer carrying Soviet soldiers. Several camouflaged truckloads of soldiers, each pulling a 76 mm divisional gun M1902. Soviet artillerymen firing guns from woods. Shells exploding nearby. A 152mm gun firing. A line of shells exploding across the field of view in the distance. A T-38 tank passes a burning building. Soviet infantry advance across a field. A wrecked German 8-ton half-track Sd-Kfz personnel carrier. Skull image painted on German vehicles, including a wrecked motorcycle. Glimpse of dead German soldier on the ground. Closeups of German soldier prisoners of war. More views of abandoned and wrecked German weapons.
Bow of U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) is seen in rough seas. Turbulent sea waves run high and spray the flight deck. Aft flight deck is seen. Planes are securely tied down and covered, on the flight deck. Water splashes across them. Huge waves wet the ship.
U.S. Military establishes military bases at Adak Island Aleutian Islands. Footage of U.S. Army forces landing n Adak Islands in 1942 for defensive actions against Japanese Forces occupying nearby islands. Director of MWR at NSGA (Naval Security of Group Activity) Bob Winckler talks about military bases at Adak Islands. Wartime relics and weathered fortifications from World War 2 are shown. U.S. war planes and submarine nets seen. Artillery seen. A board reads 'This submarine net is listed on the National Historic Register, please do not disturb'. PT torpedo boats and PBY planes Bases on Adak. PBY Catalina planes seen. Civilians seen.
First Session, United Nations General Assembly, meeting, called to order by Assembly President Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium. W.J.O. Makin, Australian delegate, talks about solving disputes and working towards interests of United Nations. Several members seated in the General Assembly. He talks about the Veto power in the Security Council.
United States President Woodrow Wilson and his party enter a car and leaves the White House in Washington DC for his Summer White House (or "Summer Capitol"), Shadow Lawn, in Long Branch New Jersey. Well-wishers at the White House stand and wave as the car departs the dirt road driveway of the White House, and a 2nd car with a security detail follows. View of Shadow Lawn, the estate of Joseph Benedict Greenhut. (The estate shown here was originally built in 1903 by John A. McCall of New York Life Insurance Company. He sold it to Greenhut. It was later destroyed by fire, and a mansion belonging to F.W. Woolworth President Hubert T. Parsons was built on the site. That estate is now part of Monmouth College). Large group of people gathered on the front lawn of Shadow Lawn to hear President Wilson speak at a 1916 campaign event. He is introduced and then approaches the podium as people cheer. The estate and podium area at the front of a soaring exterior portico is decorated with many American flags and swags.
Damage in the exhibition rooms and offices of Cuban Electric Company in Havana by an explosion. Revolting workers bomb the building. Huge crowd on the street. Cars and pedestrians pass by the broken glass windows of Cuban Electric Company. Security guard stands in front of the damaged building.
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