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Tail-first docking procedure for a large flying boat, United States. Martin XPB2M-1flying boat

A U.S. Navy film titled ‘Docking and Undocking Large Flying Boats’ giving details about large flying boats in United States. A Martin XPB2M-1flying boat in water moves towards U dock for docking. Animation gives top view of a flying boat docking. U-dock shows sanders of slip which protects hull of boat. Main docking line extends from end of the slip to the boat. Inner buoy lines extend to anchor buoys and the flying boat. Outer buoy lines extend from winches to boat. Member of the crew handles lines from bow of the flying boat. Dock crewmen in a boat moving around flying boat and connect buoy lines. Officer signals for docking from dock. Dock crewmen handling lines at winches. Flying boat moves in. Tail of flying boat enters slip. Dock crewman handle lines at bow of flying boat. Crewman hooks up flying boat. Crewman releases the hook during an undocking procedure .

Date: 1946
Duration: 5 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060017
Nose-first docking procedure of a large flying boat, United States. Martin XPB2M-1flying boat

A report on nose-first docking of large flying boat, United States. Martin XPB2M-1flying boat moves towards a U-dock. Crewman handles lines from the flying boat. Dock crewmen in small boat connect buoy lines to tail of flying boat. Main docking line being attached to the bow of flying boat. Officer gives signal for docking from slip. Flying boat moored in. Dock crewmen handle lines. Tail-first undocking of flying boat as flying boat moves out of slip. Another method of docking being demonstrated as flying boat docks. Dock crewmen handle lines.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060018
Retired General Short gives statement about the 'Rainbow Plan' of the U.S. Army and Navy during the Pearl Harbor attack

Joint Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack in the United States. Officials gather in the court room. Officials seated at their desk and Retired U.S. Army Major General Walter Short addresses them about the Pearl Harbor attack. He states that he approved the defensive plan for Hawaii with other officials. He talks about the 'Rainbow 5' by the U.S. Army and WPL-46 of the U.S. Navy. The war department audit was made under the 'Rainbow Plan'. The mutual agreement between the army and navy for the plan to be brought into effect. The Japanese action was unpredictable.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061895
General Short speaks about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurring without notice, during an investigation.

Joint Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack in the United States. Officials gather in the court room. Officials seated at their desk and Retired U.S. Army Major General Walter Short addresses them about the Pearl Harbor attack. He states that no mention was ever made by the Japanese for the attack on Hawaii. The United States had no idea to be prepared for the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. On December 7th 1941. The United States Army was not notified about the attack even at that time. (World War II period).

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061896
The history and traditions of the U.S. Army in the United States.

An orientation film titled 'The Long Gray Line' for West Point Military Academy's plebes in the United States. The academy's history and traditions are depicted. Exterior of a chapel. Soldiers pray inside the church. They march on a street. U.S. Army Commander-in-Chief George Washington seated at his desk writing a letter. The soldiers march along a road. A statue. The soldiers stand in formation.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062412
U.S. soldiers and airmen being instructed by officers in the United States.

West Point Military Academy's history and traditions are depicted. Airmen seated in a room. An officer instructs them about aerodynamics. He explains them aerodynamics with the help of a diagram on a board. A portrait gallery and battle memorials in view. Signs read: 'Mexico-Buena' and 'Chapultepec'. Soldiers advance with the flag of the U.S. on the battlefield. The American flag hoisted on a flag pole. The soldiers stand at attention and an officer talks to them.

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062413