Door sign 'Vice Admiral Emory S Land'. Interiors of an office. Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land seated with Postwar Planning commissioners. Emory S Land, Commodore Thomas Woodward, Captain Ed, McCurley, S Duvall Shell, AJ Williams, R Horton and Wad Skinan in discussion.
Door sign 'Post War Planning Committee'. Interiors of an office. Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land seated with the commissioners. Emory S Land, Commodore Thomas Woodward, Captain Ed, McCurley, S Duvall Shell, AJ Williams, R Horton and Wad Skinan in discussion. (World War II period)
Door sign 'Civil Aeronautics Board Room'. Civil Aeronautics Conference held in Auditorium. Mr Brown, the president of the conference. Various members attend the conference. Mr Jackson speaks.
Landing craft being readied, in England, for the Normandy Invasion in World War 2. Sailors filling water cask on emergency life raft. LCI(L),U.S. Landing craft Infantry, Large, number 87. A small boat leaves that craft and another passes the camera boat. LCI(L) number 325 is seen (and a barrage balloon in far background). Coast Guard crew at work cleaning rust from craft 325. One is painting the deck. View of two LCI(L)s underway in water.
Large Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) underway during training exercises in England, preparing for the Normandy invasion of World War 2. Glimpse from stern of craft, with American flag flying. LCI(L)s behind and British coastline in background. Several LCI(L)s moving in near formation. Gunners aboard camera craft ready their Oerlikon 20mm antiaircraft cannon. They open a locker and remove canisters of ammunition. Cluster of the landing craft moored in a bay. Camera craft moves past Landing Craft tank 644, run aground on a sand bar.
A Coast Guard crew member aboard a Large Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) moored in a bay in England, scans the skies with binoculars. LCI(L) 487 is one of a number of U.S. landing craft gathered in the bay. Two of the craft behind, display the American Union jack of white stars on a blue field. A barrage balloon is seen aloft. A town is nestled on a green hill in the background. Closeup of barrage balloon. View of the bay, in late afternoon, shadowed by the hill. Three barrage balloons are seen aloft. Crewmen on deck are sorting out and coiling lines, while another sharpens large compound shears with a file.
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