Operation and Installation of the Army-Navy aircraft Gun Camera in U.S. Curtiss P-40 and U.S. Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft in the United States. Aircraft returns. Aromere takes off the magazine containing film. Film is processed in the laboratory. It is developed and edited. The film is loaded in a 16mm projector and viewed by personnel trained to judge and record the hits and accuracy of pilots and gunners. Aircraft in flight during gunnery practice. Views of pilot in cockpit and gunner firing guns. View of gunner hand firing guns and view as seen from gun camera.
The Northwestern United States. Animation : A map shows the north western states. Canadian provinces on the map. The Rocky Mountains.
Tourists in the Northwestern United States. A car driven on a mountainous road. Tourists walk nearby a resort area and the giant lodge buildings of "Many Glacier Hotel" in Glacier National Park, Montana, Swiftcurrent Lake. Horses tied on posts nearby and a group of people walk toward the resort lodge. View of a boat underway in Glacier National Park. A man stands near a geyser in Yellowstone National Park. Tourists on a lake with the Grand Teton mountains in the background. A man, woman, and girl fish in a fast moving mountain stream and show their catch of trout fish on stringers. People ride on horses at a dude ranch. Animation of a map depicts highways, national parks, railroad and airlines routes, gold rich regions and lead rich regions. A copper mine. A railroad bridge. Animation of a map depicts petroleum producing regions, coal producing regions. Coal cars show amount of coal produced.
The Northwestern United States. Cars driven on a road. Trading centers in the United States. Grain elevators on farms near a road. Cattle and livestock shipping yards. 1930s and 1940s Automobile traffic on a main street in a small town of the western United States. Farmers do weekly shopping, going in various stores and shops. Sign "Barnard's" seen on one shop. Children in front of a school building. Students in a university. The clock tower with the "M" on it is Main Hall at the University of Montana in Missoula. Mount Sentinel is seen behind it. Fruits, vegetables and other articles on ships. Cattle and sheep in a field. Wheat fields. A harvester in operation on a field. Wheat is separated by a thresher.
Merchant seamen at an oil tanker off the shore of the United States. The merchant seamen repair pipes on the oil tanker. They remove the cover of a tank. Smoke rises. A seaman turns a wheel. Two seamen work on a pipe. One man hammers and the other tightens the wall of the pipe. Two seamen standing near the tank. One man tilts a bucket of oil into another tank.
A radio telegrapher works aboard a ship off the shore of the United States. The radio telegrapher writes a message using a radio instrument. A man comes in and receives the message. The radio telegrapher sets dials on the instrument.