Nazi German spies attempting sabotage are caught in the United States during World War II. A sign on a building reads 'Federal Bureau of Investigation'. An official at a desk inside an office. A submarine underway at sea as a crew member looks through a periscope. Pictures of Nazi German would-be saboteurs caught by Coast Guard personnel and apprehended by the FBI after they landed near the coasts of Amagansett, Long Island and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. (This was Operation Pastorius which disrupted a Nazi German sabotage plot on U.S. soil in 1942.)
A large commercial freighter is seen beached and a long boat, containing a dozen or more Coastguardsmen, is pulling away from it. Next the men are seen running across the sand pulling a line from the ship. Closeup of two Coast Guard officers watching from ashore. . A seaman from the ship is transported via a bosun's chair to the shore. A group of Coastguardsmen weigh the taut rescue line down so the seaman can get out of the rig. View of a Coast Guard navigator at a table with a chart. A pair of dividers and a course plotter (plus his hat) are on the chart, which displays isobars. View from deck of a Coast Guard ship making way in rough seas. An anemometer rotating on the ship. Coast Guard crewman taking barometric pressure and other meteorological readings from instruments on the ship. Another, wearing a headset, monitors a real time chart being created from instruments on the ship. View from bow of Coast Guard ship engaged in International Ice Patrol, which charts and tracks icebergs to warn ships. Coast Guard crew member marking locations on a map. View of an iceberg. .
A chimney is razed in Wyandotte, Michigan. A 258 feet tall chimney made up of 1,10,000 bricks. Two men work at the base of the tall chimney. The chimney at a coast emits smoke. The chimney is razed and it collapses and falls into Lake Erie. Smoke rises. People gathered at the beach.
Capabilities of various types of amphibious vehicles and control ships employed in transportation of U.S. troops. LVT 3-C (Landing Vehicle Craft Mark-3) underway at sea. LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel Mark-5) on beachhead. LVT A-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Mark-5) on beach, equipped with howitzer. DUKW (six-wheel drive amphibious truck) underway at sea. Various types of control ships include DEC (Control Escort Vessel), PCEC (Patrol Craft Escort Communication ship),
Capabilities of U.S. LST (Landing Ship Tank) for transportation of troops and vehicles. LST underway at sea. Trucks on deck of the ship. Beached LST unloads supplies and troops. Troops on deck of LST. Sections of LST. LST unloads supplies. Helicopter on deck of ship. LST places causeways. Pontoon barges being unloaded from LST in water.
Capabilities of U.S. Landing Crafts, carried by various amphibious ships, United States. LCM-6 (Landing Craft Mechanized -6) underway. LCMs loaded with artillery, troops, and other supplies as it heads for the beach.
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