Amelia Earhart and her crew take off from the U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, to begin their flight around the world. Views from another aircraft as their Lockheed Electra flies low over Western Span of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco, heading West toward the Pacific Ocean. Scene on the ground, several days earlier, Paul Mantz and Amelia Earhart Putnam converse, as he secures a dzuz fastener on the aircraft fuselage. Mechanic Bo McKneely helps Earhart step from the wing of the airplane. She talks with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz, talks with Earhart and George Putnam while Bo McKneely refuels the Lockheed Electra. In final scenes, ground crew pushes the Lockheed Electra into a Hangar at the Naval Air Station.
U.S. Air Force officers consulting with General Electric executives about production of an American turbojet airplane engine, a month before receiving a prototype Whittle engine from Great Britain. Workers are selected for the project. Views of the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts. Project manager, Donald F. Warner, is seen at the Lynn MA factory discussing modifications from the Whittle design to correct problems with impellers and other parts.Views of affected parts. Person being fingerprinted as part of security actions.
Hungarian airplane seized by students defecting from Soviet Hungary, is seen on the ground in West Germany. Interiors of the wrecked airplane following the struggle on board between defecting Hungarian students and other Soviet loyalist passengers. The aircraft landed on a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) airstrip after a mid air battle. Officials inspect the airplane. Security officer investigates and collects weapons. Photographers take pictures. Doctor attends wounded Hungarian students who reached freedom outside Communist Hungary.
Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito in a staff car is driven through a wide square amongst security in Moscow. Monuments and buildings in the background. The car arrives in front of a building for a meeting. Tito is greeted by Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin. Tito and Bulganin seated at a table for the meeting and speaking. Bulganin smokes a cigar and speaks to Tito and attendants / interpreters.
The film 'The Cryptologic Officer'. An antenna in the United States. Cryptologic equipment being loaded onto ships. A worker converses with an officer. A forklift is used to lift heavy containers. Communication technicians working in a box. They operate controls. An officer directs a junior technician. Ship crew members converse with cryptologic officers. 'Guest' written on a cup. A board reads 'Operations Officer'. An officer enters a room with 'Security' written on the door. He takes a seat at a desk and goes through papers on the table. The officer observes radar screens. A board reads 'Ranger', 'Coral Sea' and 'Hancock'. A cryptologic officer briefs key members about jamming, intrusion and interception.
The Cryptology Training Institute in Pensacola, Florida. A security guard at an entrance gate checks visitors A cryptologic officer briefs a group of trainees. He shows them how to take readings on an instrument. A radar screen. The trainees operate controls. Two women read a manual. A fleet of aircraft in flight. Cryptologic officers with headphones operate controls. A submarine and a ship underway at sea. A cryptologic officer seated at a desk in his office reads documents. Vehicles on a road. A tree in the foreground.
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