War Admiral wins Washington Handicap horse race at Laurel Park Racecourse (198 Laurel Race Track Rd, Laurel, MD 20725, United States) in Laurel, Maryland. War Admiral with his jockey Charles Kurtsinger on the racing track. Spectators seated in stands. The race starts. Spectators in the stand watch the race and cheer. War Admiral wins the race.
West Point Military Academy cadets being shown the latest war equipment at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The cadets stand in a circle and a tank in the foreground. A cadet seated inside a M2 Light tank (nicknamed "Mae West") and drives the tank. The cadets applaud. The cadets watch the tank as it rolls on the ground. A tank rolls down a slope into water and splashes water up toward the cadets. Demonstrations of heavy artillery guns and howitzers: Soldiers load shells in a large field gun. They fire the gun and cadets close their ears with fingers. Another large field gun fires and cadets stand around the artillery. The last gun demonstrated is possibly an 8 inch gun M1888 and is shown on a disappearing carriage that retracts the gun back and down following its recoil after firing.
Midshipmen from United States Naval Academy at a dock in Annapolis, Maryland. A midshipman kisses a woman. Midshipmen stand in formation at a dock. Small tenders at the dock. The 1100 Navy midshipman board the boats. They are seated in the boats and wave as the boats set out approaching a nearby docked U.S. Navy battleship. U.S. flag in the foreground and cadets waving as they prepare to embark on a summer trip with Le Havre, France as their first stop.
25th Annual Junior boxing championship at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The young boys practice in a boxing ring for the championship. Two young boys fight in the ring. Others stand outside the boxing ring and watch. The young boys boxing. A referee in the ring. The boys boxing. Two other boys in the ring boxing. One of them cry after a strong punch. The boy sits on a bench. The boy goes back in the ring and fights back. Both the boys fighting. The spectators in the background. (World War II period).
Second Class Midshipmen launch their flight training with a descent into a pool in a Dilbert Dunker at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annaolis, Maryland. A ditching course for training the pilots to learn how to correctly escape a submerged airplane. The Dilbert Dunker descends into a pool. A pilot seated in the Dilbert Dunker. He gets it out and swims.
The Annual Junior Boxing Tournament in Annapolis, Maryland. Young boxers of naval families sit and receive instructions from a referee at an academy. The referee measures the weight of a young boxer on a weighting machine. Two boxers fight in a boxing ring. They display enthusiasm and display their skills during the match.
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