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U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge on a launch underway at sea in Boston, Massachusetts.
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. at Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The President and the First Lady walk down a gangplank to board a launch. Other passengers in the background. The President and First Lady Grace Coolidge aboard the launch underway in Boston Harbor. The U.S. flag on the bow of the launch. Brief view from shore of a group of civilians looking out toward the USS Mayflower PY-1 presidential yacht (the destination for the Coolidge launch). Next scene shows a car in front of a house. A man walks out of the building and sits in a car.
2nd Marine Division aboard transport ships headed to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, during World War II
U.S. Marines boarding troop transport ships in World War 2. A line of the transport ships underway in the Pacific, en route to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. The Destroyer, USS Frazier (DD-607) seen close to port, astern, with a line extending to the transport ship. A sealed packet of orders for the transport and the Marines is delivered over the line. Scene shifts to an officer briefing marines with help of a large relief map of Betio in the Tarawa atoll. The map is complete, in every detail, down to models of structures there. Marines are seen belting machine gun ammunition and test firing their weapons. Marines on deck exercise doing calisthenics. Officer briefing Coast Guard and Navy coxswains who will be operating landing craft during the amphibious assault. Religious service being conducted on deck by a military Chaplains, on evening of November 19, 1943. Catholic chaplain, Father Francis W. Kelly, Chaplain, U.S.N.R. saying Mass, for marines. (Narrator comments that many of these Marines were killed the next morning.)
Daughter of Thomas Alva Edison christens the Polaris Submarine named for her father
Mrs. Madeleine Edison Sloane, second daughter of renowned American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, christens the Polaris Submarine, USS Thomas Alva Edison (SSBN-610), at the yard of Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, in Groton, Connecticut. Mrs. Sloane with other officials on a platform. She is briefed by an official and then breaks a bottle of champagne to launch the boat, which moves smoothly down the ways into the water. Spectators cheer. The crew of the new Polaris submarine seen on her deck, following the launch.
U.S. General MacArthur commanding the assault on Leyte in World War II, accompanied by President Osmena of the Philippines
U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur's heralded return to the Philippines during World War II. A U.S. Task Force underway to attack the island of Leyte. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, seated between U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson and Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, aboard the Task Force Flagship, U.S. Cruiser, USS Nashville (CL-43) en route to Leyte. Animated map describes the Leyte campaign. General MacArthur standing on the Nashville, smoking his signature corn cob pipe. U.S. warships bombarding the Island. U.S. troops of the 24th Infantry Division and 1st Cavalry Division assault the beach from landing craft, as General MacArthur and his Chief of Starr, Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, watch from the Nashville. After the beachhead is secured, General MacArthur and President Osmena, of the Philippines, shake hands. MacArthur wades ashore from a landing craft accompanied by President Omena and an entourage of high ranking officers. U.S. troops are seen wading ashore from LSTs. One is numbered 474. Scenes ashore. A water buffalo. Wrecked Japanese tanks. Filipino inhabitants emerging to begin clearing debris away from what is left of their homes. Damaged buildings in Tacloban, .the Provincial Capital of Leyte. Filipino inhabitants gathered under a tent, smiling. President Osmena speaking from the steps of the Provincial Capital building, with General MacArthur and his entourage standing behind.
SS Hannibal Victory carrying locomotives underway in the Pacific and men aboard the ship fire guns in the air.
A film depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory, hull number 579, delivered a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. SS Hannibal Victory leaves the dock. The ship underway in the San Francisco Bay. An U.S. officer and men aboard the ship. A ship underway in the background. A view of the city from the bay. The locomotives aboard the ship. The Golden Gate bridge ahead. Navy hospital ship USS Relief (AH-1) underway. A P-2 undereway, a large new type passenger ship, converted to carry troops when war broke out. The Golden Gate Bridge in the background. A man in the foreground. Two army corporals aboard the ship. A radio operator, with the army security office aboard the ship. A view of the Golden Gate Bridge from mast of the ship. The signal flags flutter in air. The pilots on the flying bridge with the skipper. A talker checks his telephones. Two men seated by the engine. A pilot boat approaches the ship to pick up the pilot. The pilot from SS Hannibal Victory boards the boat. An engineer opens the main throttle. The turbines turning smoothly. The ship underway in the Pacific. View of the Pacific Ocean. The steel cargo on the deck. The men aboard the ship fire guns in air. The men stand around the gun. The shells of the gun. A man loads the shells. They fire the gun.
Invasion of Italy and Operation Husky by the United States during World War II.
Invasion of Italy by the United States during World War II. U.S. Army Private Patrick MacDonald at home in the United States speaks about his experience of being in Italy during the war. Italian houses and buildings on a hillside. Men work in a spaghetti factory. U.S. soldiers relaxing in Italy. U.S. ships off the coast of Italy. U.S. LSTs (Landing Ships, Tank) at a Sicilian beach. A large number of U.S. ships off the coast of Sicily. U.S. Naval ships attacking targets on a beach during Operation Husky (Invasion of Sicily). U.S. antiaircraft guns open fire against German aircraft. U.S. troops aboard ships. Wounded men are treated aboard USS Savannah (CL-42). U.S. troops aboard landing crafts underway heading for a beach. The troops disembark from the landing crafts and advance inland.
