U.S. President Herbert Hoover and the First Lady Louise Henry Hoover arrive to meet disabled war veterans on the South lawn of the White House. They circulate among and speak to disabled war veterans seated in wheel chairs.The President and Mrs. Hoover speak with disabled veterans, many of whom had lost limbs, as nurses bring them forward in wheel chairs, to meet the President and First Lady. They meet a war veteran lying on a stretcher. A man with crutches meets the President and the First Lady.
President Herbert Hoover reviewing exercises of the U.S. Navy fleet off the Virginia Capes. He is aboard the Cruiser, USS Salt lake City (CA-25). A U.S. aircraft takes off from an aircraft carrier. A Voight UO-1 airplane attempts hookup with the Navy dirigible, USS Los Angeles.
View of the White House. President Herbert Hoover converses with Charles A. Lindbergh in the White House garden. Standing with Lindbergh is his mother, Evangeline Land Lindbergh, and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Charles and Anne Lindbergh pose for a photograph, with President Hoover. Vice President Charles Curtis stands behind them.
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, in an open car, with his father, Richard E.Byrd, Sr., his wife, Marie (Donaldson Ames) Byrd and his son, Richard, in front of Union Station, in Washington, DC. Admiral Byrd conversing with President Hoover, in the White House garden, as the President presents him an award, from the National Geographic Society, recognizing his achievements in Antarctic exploration.
Montage of scenes from U.S. Navy exercises involving aircraft carrier and T4M-1 aircraft of Navy Squadron VT-2B. Crew on deck of Carrier fasten a torpedo under the fuselage of T4M-1 number 2-1-7. . The aircraft has logo, of dragon astride a bomb, painted on its side. The aircraft takes off from the carrier flight deck. Views of Navy cameraman and one from universal News hand cranking their movie cameras. View from aircraft, of explosion and smoke below and behind.Views from rear cockpit of aircraft in flight. View of Navy photographer in rear cockpit. View from rear seat of aircraft diving down towards warship underway. Views of the T4M-1 aircraft number 2-1-2 flying low over the water and releasing its torpedo. The torpedo leaving a wake as it heads toward the target ship (a single-stack freighter).Torpedo strikes target ship amidship with huge explosion.
View from rear of carrier-based aircraft that has just taken off from the USS Saratoga (CV-3), underway in the Pacific Ocean. The empennage of the airplane, with 4 guy wires, is seen with the carrier behind and several aircraft on its flight deck. From the backward view of the empennage, it appears that the departing aircraft may be a Boeing F3B-1.
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