Exhibition race at the 9th Pimlico Classic in Baltimore, MD. Female jockeys get dressed for a no-betting exhibition race between female jockeys. The women jockeys adjust their hats. Long shot of horses leaving the starting gate as the race begins. Medium shots of crowd cheering during race. American jockey Wantha Davis wins the race by 12 lengths. Wantha Davis poses for pictures with a silver plate presented as trophy.
British forces manning 8-inch howitzers on the Western Front in World War 1. Others firing a 155mm heavy long gun near a village in France. British gunnery Sergeant using a megaphone to relay instructions to gun crew. Firing a heavy gun at close to zero elevation. Firing 8-pouder field pieces in the midst of trenches in No-Mans land. Firing a howitzer equipped with mud flaps (girdles) on its wheels to minimize bogging down in the mud. Glimpse of German soldiers unpacking artillery shells with a 15 cm Kanone 16 in the background. A British 8-pounder firing among trenches. British infantry moving across a quiet battlefield. A British Mark IV tank moving across trenches. A British battery of howitzers firing. Closeup of gun crew firing an 8-pounder from under camouflage covering. British troops lined up in a deep reinforced trench. They climb over the top. Glimpse of two German soldiers rushing up out of a reinforced bunker. British infantry advancing across battlefield, under fire. On carries a Lewis gun and the other a rifle with fixed bayonet. Huge explosions raise black smoke as a British Mark IV tank moves in foreground. German gunners in a fortified bunker, firing a Maxim MG 08 machine gun. Closeup of machine gun. View from trench underneath, as a British tank rolls overhead. View from above shows it is a Mark V "male" tank, armed with a short 6-pounder (57-mm) Hotchkiss gun in the right sponson. British infantry running across the battlefield with smoke everywhere. A shell strikes and one soldier falls ans rolls over. . Another glimpse of German machine gunners firing. View from behind barbed wire as a British Mark V tank advances toward the camera. White smoke is punctuated by puffs of black smoke from shelling. A line of soldiers are silhouetted against light sky as they flee across a hill top. A shell striking and fire burning in a French village. Views of desolate "no man's land." British infantry, including pipers, walking across the battlefield. Stubs of trees and destroyed remains of a village. A line of British infantry leaning forward behind an earthen berm. They charge over the top. One remains lying against the hill. Troops silhouetted against the sky as they move across the battlefield and down a deep ravine and up the other side.
Majority, but not all of clip shows Madison Wisconsin circa 1946. Clip opens with views of an unidentified town in the United States. Automobile traffic on street of the town. Long views in distance suggest possibly western United States. Next scene is a very brief view of a riverboat or steamboat on a river. Next scene is Main Street in Madison Wisconsin, with cars and trucks on street. Capitol building dome in Madison is visible in distance. Point of view from a moving vehicle of shops and businesses on West Main Street in Madison, Wisconsin. Businesses include The Drake; Fashion Shop; Chris Eckert; Edward Eckert at 125 and 127 W. Main Street. Next is "W. H. Hanger Plumbing and Heating at 123 West Main Street, Madison, Wisconsin. Then a Steak and Fried Chicken restaurant. Next is Margaret's Beauty Salon; Goodyear Tires; J.C. Penney Company. Scene changes to a house. A man comes out of a house carrying a fishing pole. Brief scene of two young men in a library.
Ships underway in the Atlantic Ocean. USS Northampton (CLC-1) underway. Crew manning the rail. The U.S. President's flag on the ship. The Second Fleet in two columns pass in a review. One long column of ships underway. USS Forrestal (CVA-59) leads the column. USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) leads the second column in distant background. USS Northampton reviews the Second Fleet and passes on down between the two columns of ships. USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32) underway in a column.
U.S. Navy warships, of the 2nd Fleet, underway during a Fleet Review for President John F. Kennedy, in the Atlantic Ocean. A cruiser underway in one of two columns during the fleet review. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) underway in a review fleet. A cruiser underway. USS Forrestal (CVA-59) leads one of the columns. A U.S. Navy S2F Tracker aircraft flies low. USS Enterprise (CVN-65) underway. Three United States Navy Sikorsky HSS-1 helicopters in a V formation fly low over water ahead of the column of ships. Sonar balls hang slightly below the fuselages of the helicopters as they prepare to dip. The helicopters hover over water. Ships in review fleet underway. USS Bearss (DD-654) underway with review fleet. USS Remey (DD-688) underway in a column.
American robot bombs, America's answer to the German V-1 buzzbomb, being prepared in Dearborn, Michigan during World War 2. Workers weld bomb casing at Ford robot bomb factory. The workers move long tube like bombs with jet engines. They are known by nickname "Flying Chimney". The bombs on wheels. Men with ear protection in a testing area as the engines are fired during testing. Buildings in the background. Flame shooting from the jet engines. Workers including some women assemble the bombs at a plant in Toledo, Ohio, where wings and warheads are also built. A woman war production worker lying inside the body of a robot bomb and working on its assembly. The bombs take off from a launch pad in a gully at an Army Air Force test site. A booster cuts loose from the American Robot Bomb and hits water at a distance as the buzz bomb flies through the air, with an estimate 200 mile range. The bombs in flight. The booster hits water.
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