Winter sports at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Troops participate in Ski Race. Soldiers on skis as they run. They participate in a snow shoe race. Some soldiers fall. Soldiers participate in skijoring (Mule drawn skiers). Soldiers play curling and ice hockey.
Maneuvers at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Night attack on a snow covered battle field during a maneuver. Machine guns are set up and fired as United States ski troops and tanks advance. Soldiers in prone position fire. Soldiers stand with burning torches. Infantry and tanks move forward in field.
American soldiers in northern Minnesota. Soldiers walk past the Round Tower of Fort Snelling. Soldiers read foundation stone at the tower. View of the foundation stone
U.S. Submarines being decommissioned in San Francisco, California. Us sailors at the San Francisco Navy yard clean and lubricate parts and equipment prior to storage. Bridge over a river. Submarines at a port. Honor flag being brought down during a ceremony. Flag being presented to submarine's oldest man. Sailor plays a trumpet. Seaman looks through a periscope. View of a blast through periscope. Vessel being retired. Submarine being painted to protect it against corrosion. Deck guns being covered with cocoon type plastic sheet. Engines, air compressor and other parts of submarine being cleaned, oiled and left in working a condition. Submarines parked at a port.
U.S. Army radar equipment used to contact the moon. Steel structure of a radar. Men work at controls. Moon in the background of the radar. Animation shows distance of moon and earth being 238000 miles. Radar beam reaches to the earth in 2.4 seconds. Radar rays go to moon and comes back to earth after reflecting. Readings of radar shows signals. Picture of the surface of the moon. Narrator says, "no longer beyond men's dreaming is the possibility of reusable airplane-like space ships to commute between the two planets (the earth and the moon)" as animation shows an aircraft space ship flying from the earth to the moon (foreshadowing the NASA Space Shuttle program).
Activities at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. View of the snow covered Blue Ridge Mountains. Two men pose. Men climb up the slopes on snowshoes. Man climbs up wooden stairs to a platform.
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