Coast Artillery soldiers at Camp Davis in North Carolina in World War II. demonstrate how to handle a barrage balloon. The manifold of the balloon is connected to a helium gas cylinder by means of a rubber tube. Men connect one end of an inflation tube to the manifold. The end of the tube is connected with the appendix of the balloon. The envelope is inflated A soldier opens cylinder valves. The balloon gradually rises. Men install a rudder. Men hang sand bags on the balloon to control its rate of rise. Men move the balloon to a winch. The second balloon inflated in the same manner. Men remove the sand bags. A man operates the winch. The balloon rises. The second balloon rises. The balloons are raised up. A balloon is hauled down and anchored. Men hang the sand bags. The Army personnel march off from the field.
The National Horse show at Madison Square Garden in New York. Spectators seated in stand. The jockeys with their horses on a track. The horses lined up. The show starts. The horse performs different stunts and spectators in the stand cheer. The spectators watch the show. The horse carriages in different formations.
Chinese to use speedboats in suicide attacks in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Men make speedboat. A man tightens the nails with a machine on the boat. The bottom part of the boat. Men at work on the bottom part. The speedboat being lowered into water. Men on the boat. The speedboat underway at sea.
Birth of the Fischer quintuplets in South Dakota, United States. The two older children of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fischer ride bicycles in front yard area. Close-ups of the boy and girl riding bikes. Their house in the background. Views of the St. Luke's Hospital ward in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where Mrs. Fischer gave birth to five new children. The quints in a hospital. Nurses and a doctor look after them.
U.S. ambassador to Hungary Selden Chapin in New York, United States. Selden Chapin with dignitaries and officials aboard a ship. They all are seated in a hall. Chapin with a woman walks on the deck of a ship. Other officials and dignitaries stand at the deck in the background. Ships underway in the background. Selden and the woman walk on the deck. They talk to each other.
U.S. battleship USS New Jersey (BB-16) being test bombed in the Atlantic Ocean as part of General Billy Mitchell's efforts to demonstrate the effect of air power in warfare. A close up of the USS New Jersey (BB-16). The ship begins to sink after aerial bombing. One mast falls and the U.S. battleship tilts on one side. The ship gradually submerges into water off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
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