United States Coast Guard resumes iceberg patrolling in the North Atlantic Ocean as part of International Ice Patrol Rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean hit the bow of the US Coast Guard ship. United States Coast Guard crew hold on to rails onboard. View of an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. Silhouette of a sailor observing an iceberg. US Coast Guard crew observe iceberg from the ship’s bow. Various icebergs from Greenland floating in the Atlantic Ocean. United States Coast Guard USCGC Tampa (Coast Guard Cutter No. 48) sails next to an iceberg. Consolidated B-24 Liberator flies in front of iceberg.
United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation from White House in Washington DC during World War 2. Sitting at his desk he points to a map of globe behind his desk. He demonstrates lines of travel of American ships. He points towards North Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. He shows various harbors and naval bases at waterfronts of the United States.
Shows conflict between German U-boats and Allied convoys in Atlantic, during World War 2. Clip contains actual World War 2 footage, but sound effects, narration, and editing relate a fictionalized story. Destroyer escort with a supply convoy in the Atlantic. Sailor stands next to a steel drum depth charge chained to the deck. View of a surfaced German U-boat ostensibly tracking a convoy. Supply ships silhouetted against the sky in evening. Captain at periscope in submerged German submarine.The boat surfaces and crew goes on deck to view convoy through binoculars. Order is given to launch a torpedo. Explosion and fire seen as it hits a ship. Destroyer escort ship underway. U.S. sailors aboard convoy escort ship sight a German submarine periscope. View inside the U-boat when they know they have been detected. The U-boat crash dives and the Captain calls for silence. Crew on deck of escort ship begin launching depth charges in battle which explode to her stern. One damages the submarine and water enters it.
A film on the development of air power in the United States. Scenes depicting travel by ocean going ships, preceding air travel. Animation of a small ship moving away from the east coast of the U.S. Actual footage of a large sailing vessel of the early clipper ship variety sailing in the ocean. Animation of a small ship sailing to the Great Britain. Real footage of a four-stack ocean liner, which appears to be the RMS Aquitania, sailing in the Atlantic Ocean. Animated map of the Atlantic Ocean and the coasts of the U.S. and England. An R-34 dirigible airship in flight. The R-34 moored to the ground with a large craft around the gondola. A British Bristol fighter aircraft in flight. Animation of the maps of the U.S. and the Great Britain coming closer together, figuratively, through the speed of air travel.
World War II German submarine U-564, commanded by Rehinhard Suhren, is seen partially submerged in order to accept reload of torpedoes at sea from another submarine in the South Atlantic ocean. Crew of U-564 seen keeping torpedo afloat with life vests and swimming it into position on deck before submarine surfaces to contain it. View of black cat symbol on U-564. Torpedo being loaded into position. German crew seen below decks relaxing, and then responding to battle stations alarm.
German submarine U-564, commanded by Reinhard Suhren, on patrol in the South Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. Periscope view reveals a Swedish freighter flying neutral flags. The freighter is permitted to pass. Periscope view then shows American sailing yacht. The yacht crew abandons ship and then U-564 destroys the yacht.
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