Activities of the U.S. Navy personnel in the United States during the Battle of Midway of World war II. U.S. Navy PBY Catalina airplane parked at a beach. Crewmen working on the airplane. Bombs loaded under the wing section. Cockpit of the airplane. Man seated in the airplane while in flight. An officer saluting. Three airplanes flying in formation.
Film 'Emergency Conservation Work' shows development of the National Parks system in the United States. Images from early 1930s in the United States with idle and quiet factories, mills, and smokestacks due to unemployment and Great Depression. Factory with a board that reads 'Closed' on it. Unemployed workers stand in line at the gates of the General Employment Agency and gather around bulletin boards at the agency. Young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at a meal with heads bowed in prayer, and then standing in a line at the start of a work day. CCC workers digging in a field. Several sign boards seen including: Edisto State Park developed by U.S. department of Interior; CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camps SP-3 Poinsett Co. 421; Myrtle Beach State Park Emergency Conservation Work; Co. 262 CCC Camp Florida SP-3; Old Lodge Camp SP-15.
A U.S. Marine Corps Reconnaissance Team begins a field training exercise, after having landed from a submarine and changed into their camouflage fatigues. They patrol through small trees and underbrush. A Grumman S2F aircraft lands on a small airstrip, and the recon team emerges from the woods to board it for flight back to their base. A formation of marines with field gear, starts to move double-time along a dirt path. A formation of Sikorsky H-34 helicopters seen flying low over plumes of black smoke rising. Marines, in amphibious assault training operation, approach surf in Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs). They run from the LVTs as they hit the beach. Marine infantry and M48 Patton tanks during actual combat (or realistic training exercise), with large plumes of black smoke rising in various locations.
Women display wooden bathing suits in Hoquaim, Washington. Three women wearing swimsuits cut thin strips of wood. They put thin pieces of these strips on their swimsuits. Women wearing wooden swimsuits get into water at the beach. They display their swimsuits.
Panning views of Honolulu, Hawaii, from the Punchbowl crater overlooking the city. The camera pans from the East, where Diamond Head can be seen in the distance, and moves toward the South, with the Pacific ocean in the background.The camera stops panning about where the Ilikai hotel on Waikaki Beach comes into view. This process is repeated, again. The camera then reverses, panning back to the East and Northeast. It also repeats this pan again. Finally, a more distant view is seen followed by several fragmentary spurious shots.
A message from United States Marine Corps First Lieutenant Tyrone Power (prewar Hollywood movie star actor) in the United States. Tyrone Power delivering a message. (Clip includes opening musical intro but no sound thereafter). U.S. Marines marching in a formation. A large crowd watching sailors in the background. A number of women corps in uniforms march in formation. Several buildings in the background. USMC honor guard marching. The sailors standing in a formation at a side. The Marines firing deck guns. A woman officer speaking into a microphone. U.S. National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (Bethesda Naval Hospital). A wounded Marine being attended by a nurse. Nurses attending to the wounded lying on beds in a hospital ward. Two Marines beside deck guns. Explosions occurring at sea. Several Marines at a beachhead. The Marines attending to the wounded on the beach. View of Lt. Tyrone Power delivering the speech. (World War II period).
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