The premiere of the movie 'Bright Victory' in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Actress Peggy Dow and actor Arthur Kennedy sign autographs for the people present at the premiere. Other co-stars including John Hudson, Julie Adams also present. Other Hollywood celebrities also attend the premiere. Bright light from two search lights pierces the sky.
The last race for Ab Jenkins and his 'Mormon Meteor' car in Bonneville, Utah. Mormon Meteor with people around it. The car races. A man with a sign that reads '197'. A man looks through a pair of binoculars. People around Jenkins as the hood of the car is opened after overheating. Smoke comes out of the engine. Ab Jenkins shakes hands with a man and rubs his eye with a handkerchief.
The National baby Show in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Entrants from all parts of the globe vie for honors in the 40th annual pageant of infants. 150,000 spectators gathered on either side of the main street view the procession of decorative and humorous floats. Babies on the decorative floats. A girl pulls babies in a toy cart. A baby in an aircraft model atop a float. Another baby in a U.S. Navy model barrage balloon. Babies on model horses, in Native American Indian floats, a float titled 'Vanity', and a boy atop a pole on a float.
The National Tournament marble game held in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Spectators watch boys playing the game. 14 year old Robert Rerzlaff of Alabama wins the game and is crowned.
"I was there Kiska" An American Private 1st Class shares his experiences during Allied landing at Kiska Island at Alaska in World War II. American soldiers disembark from a landing craft and move ashore without any resistance from Japanese troops. A Japanese hangar and submarine base destroyed by Allied bombings. Abandoned supplies, damaged trucks, antiaircraft guns. A tunnel leads to a hospital.
U.S. forces occupy abandoned Japanese outpost on Kiska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska during World War II. An American soldier samples Japanese rice ration and another drinks a bottle of Japanese beer. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Corlett, Commander of Amphibious Force 9, Lt. Gen. John L. Dewitt Commander of Western Defense Command, and Assistant Secretary of War, John J. McCloy, inspect the island. Heavy construction equipment and supplies unloaded at the beach. U.S. Army engineers commence building a U.S. base on Kiska. Soldiers hold a Japanese flag.
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