United States sailors load ammunition and a machine gun onto a PBY Catalina amphibian plane parked on the ramp at a Navy base in the Pacific Theater, during World War 2. Sailors,standing on the aircraft wing, pull the number one propeller through before the engine is started.A sailor on the wing stands fireguard, as the number two engine is started.
Two mid-grade U.S. Navy aviation officers, one in a tropical pith helmet and the other in a side cap, discuss a 50 caliber machine gun with a Navy aviation Commodore, who handles the weapon. The scene is aboard a U.S. ship during World War 2.
Views of several different crash sites at U.S. Naval bases in World War 2. Firefighter in protective suit directs stream of foam on smoldering wreckage of what appears to be a crashed low wing single engine monoplane. Several sailors and an officer also help and are seen putting out the last remaining flames. An armed marine guard watches over destroyed parts of an engine, propeller and cowling sitting in a field. In change of scene, an officer directs a firefighter in protective gear as he hoses foam on the wreckage of a larger crashed aircraft. Shallow hole in ground is shown. Another scene shows sailors working around numerous pieces of aircraft wreckage laid out on the ground. Next sequence shows sailors running toward a smoking crash site.A vehicle with flag on it's bumper is parked nearby. Sailors direct hoses on the wreckage and smoke rises from it. Armed Marines walk about the area. The smoldering wreckage indicates this was a relatively small aircraft. In final scene, firefighters in protective gear, without helmets, direct hoses on another crash site. Flames persist.
Gunners put parachutes and 50 caliber machine gun into PBY- 5 Catalina float plane in South Pacific. Plane crew climbs up past waist hatch. Pilot and co-pilot climb up into waist hatch in preparation for patrol.
Plane's Captain and a sailor check oil on engines of a U.S. Navy PBY Catalina amphibian before starting during World War 2. Plane Captain and sailor turn props through by hand in preparation for starting. Engines started on PBY-5 Catalina. This sequence is repeated from different angle. It taxis across the hard ramp, past a sandbagged antiaircraft gun emplacement. The aircraft proceeds down a ramp into the water, where it continues taxiing slowly. In next sequence, it is seen returning again.
Excerpt from U.S. Deparment of Agriculture film "The Battle Is In our Hands." African American tenants pick cotton and process sorghum in fields. Farmers doing agricultural activities. Cattle at field. "Walls of Jericho" is sung by Paul Robeson in the background. (World War II period).
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