During a break at a ceremony honoring wing commander Colonel Peyton Gibson, a morale building session for the436th Reserve Troop Carrier Wing is held at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City. The 436th Reserve Troop Carrier Wing selects it's beauty queen who will compete nationwide for the Miss Air Force title. Planes in the background. 'U.S. Air Force Reserve' written on the building at the air field. The dog mascot of the Wing is seen. Female beauty queen contest participants model for the competition, dressed in bathing suits.
A huge Soviet Russian aircraft in flight above Valley Stream in New York. It is a unarmed Tupolev TB-1 (ANT-4) bomber, with lettering on side: "URSS-300", and was known as "Land of the Soviets" or "Soviet Country". The plane lands at Curtiss Field (also called Roosevelt Field that year) after completing a 13,000 mile journey from Moscow. A huge crowd tries to break the security lines to meet the airmen. Several cars parked on the airfield. Police try to control the crowds. The crowd rushes towards the plane. A police man riding a motorcycle. near the crowd, with the airplane parked behind.
An amphibious sailboat try-out for dry land race at Salt Lake City in Utah. A man sits on the sailboat. The sailboat with wheels travels on land. Several men stand in the background. The sailboat stops.
French Line Pier 10 at Staten Island in New York. French ship 'Ile De Re' at dock. Name and flags on side of ship on France. French flag on the stern. Freighter 'Leopold' chartered by the Red Cross to carry food to war-torn France during World War II. French flag on stern. Captain Lewis Thepaut going aboard Leopold. Leopold leaving dock. Coast Guard Escort near the ship. French ship 'Ile De Re' leaving dock. Leopold underway.
French Line Pier 10 at Staten Island in New York. Ship with French flag on stern. Flour being loaded aboard freighter 'Leopold' chartered by the Red Cross to carry food to France. Men aboard Leopold loading the sacks. A man sits on a bag. Sack bags in rows. Sacks read in French 'From America to France'.
U.S. Marines during landing maneuvers in New River, North Carolina. Marines charging from landing barge onto beach. Transport at sea. American flag on mast. Convoy of transport sat sea. Naval officer looks at plane flying overhead, speaks to Marine officer, and then looks through binoculars. Marine bugler. Sailor on bridge blows whistle. Landing barges and Higgins boats are lowered from transport. Navy officer on bridge gives orders through megaphone. Sailor holds signal flags beside him. A gun is lowered from transport. Marines climb down cargo net and board landing boat. Landing boat and barges approaching shore line and beaching. Marines dash through surf and charge onto beach. Medium tanks roll off landing barges onto the beach.
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