Launch of USS Hornet (CV-8) at Newport News Shipyard, Virginia. The flag of the U.S. flag hangs from the hull of the ship. U.S. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox's wife, Mrs. Annie Reid Knox, at the christening. Women stand holding umbrellas. The Aircraft Carrer ship slides into the water.
A prototype B-26 with plexiglass nose and top turret is tested at Martin Aircraft company in Baltimore, Maryland. The aircraft at an airstrip. Officers talk. A man sits inside the transparent nose section. The aircraft takes off on test flight.
U.S. Army troops training at Fort Knox, Kentucky.Trucks and tanks cross a river at The troops run towards a shore, get on boats and cross the river. An army truck taken across the river on a pontoon boat. The soldiers push a boat to get it from land to water while their shoes fill with mud. Tanks are brought across the river on flat boats. Mud covered soldiers lay pontoons over boats. The tanks cross the pontoon bridge.
Members meet at the Friday 13th Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Members of the club, all men, mock various superstitions. They walk under a ladder before entering the club. The name of the club written at the entrance. A skeleton hung in the background. Members sit at a table. A black cat walks across their dining table. A chimpanzee enters with an open umbrella. It walks on the table with the open umbrella. A clock shows time as 10 minutes past 12. The men smash a mirror; one man puts the empty frame over his neck and they laugh. Two men light cigarettes beside the chimpanzee who has a pipe in its mouth.
Scenes of the Miami Open Golf tournament in Miami, Florida. Men at a table filled with ten thousand silver dollars. Players tee off. Spectators watch. player putts the ball. Winner was Byron Nelson. Officials pour silver dollars into his golf bag.
Maneuvers of the British Army in England. British troops come at a sea shore. They climb up a hill. A sea in the background. The troops climb down. They ride motorbikes. Water on a road splashes as a soldier drives through it. The soldiers park their bikes beside the road. They take their guns and lay down in prone positions. Trucks go across barbed wire barriers. (World War II period).
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