The 1st Cavalry Division moving along the Atlantic Coast in the United States. An armored car parked on a field. Soldiers standing near the car and discussing a document. A soldier looks at the document. Other soldiers standing in the background. A group of soldiers discussing a map. The soldiers board the armored car. The car moving on the street. Trees along the sides of the street. Motorcycles and scouts move over a highway along the coast. Soldiers get off from motorcycles and advance along the coast. Artillery pulled by a trailer. The soldiers take the artillery to position. Other soldiers firing rifles and machine guns, lying in prone position on the beach. Two soldiers watching the target. 37 mm guns loaded and fired. (World War II period).
A vacation camp in New Jersey. Children stand in a group at the camp. The children salute the U.S. flag. The children seated around a swimming pool in costumes. A boy dives in the pool. The children stand in a line and give their pennies to a woman. A poster reads' God Bless Americans'.
U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft on a practice mission in New Mexico during World War II. Bombardiers load bombs on B-24 Liberator bombers. The bombers drop bombs over target in New Mexico. Bomb bursts on target.
Japanese bank in "Little Tokyo" and people in Los Angeles, California, in World War 2 during time of Japanese businesses being closed and citizens of Japanese descent being moved to internment and relocation centers. A worker puts up a sign about parking times on a shop. Scene of fishing boats and and docks in port area. Man erects American flag in front of Japanese American Citizens League offices. A Japanese-American woman smiles with the American flag behind her. Police officers patrol in front of Yokohama Specie bank, Los Angeles Branch office, in Little Tokyo at 120 South San Pedro Street. Notice posted on the bank that the bank business license has been revoked temporarily. Men walk in front of Yokohama Specie Bank Ltd. Another view of Japanese-American man and woman placing the United States flag in front of the Japanese American Citizens League offices, which also has a "soldiers headquarters" sign in window, at 109 S. South Pedro Street, Los Angeles, California. (This office also served as a "Anti-Axis Committee Headquarters during World War 2.)
Pilots test fly a P-40 airplane at a Curtiss Company facility at Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo municipal airport) during World War II. Curtiss company employees giving a final cleanup and polish to a shiny P-40 airplane. parked on the ramp. Two pilots are suited up to fly: H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left), and a U.S. Army Air Force major (at right), are dressed in flight suits, helmets, goggles, and wearing seat-pack parachutes. They stand beside a well-worn P-40 airplane that has a pilot/technician in its cockpit, checking controls. H. Lloyd Child (at left), points to a clipboard on his leg with information on it and discusses it with another pilot (the USAAF major). Next, a pilot is seen taxiing the shiny P-40 at fairly high speed, with the canopy open. He taxis past parked aircraft in front of a hangar, including a Curtiss SBC Helldiver; a Stinson Gullwing; and a Spartan Executive airplane. The P-40 taxis out to the runway where the pilot makes a long takeoff roll before breaking ground. Then he pulls the P-40 into a fairly steep climb, leveling off at about traffic pattern altitude, without retracting his landing gear.
New United States Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 aircraft being placed on flight line at Curtiss Aircraft company facility in Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo Municipal Airport) during World War II. A new P-40 aircraft being rolled out of the Curtiss hangar. Employees push several new P-40s. The aircraft are seen parked on the ramp.