U.S. Atlantic Scouting Fleet in the Caribbean. Destroyers rafted together, and performing routine housekeeping and maintenance tasks. Fabrics are drying and airing on decks and sailors are engaged in washing. painting, and other activities. Hull numbers identify the USS Hatfield (No. 231) and USS Brooks (No. 232). View of the funnels and guns of respective ships, all in a row. Flotilla of small boats being used by sailors around the raft of destroyers. Mountains and sand hills in background. Tarpolins are spread and tied to provide shade on decks. Officers and sailors on outside bridges of the destroyers.
Operations of the Hurricane Hunters in the Caribbean. Interior of a United States Air Force Lockheed WC-130 Hercules aircraft in flight. A dropsonde operator speaking into a microphone. A pilot, a co-pilot and an engineer in the cockpit of the airplane.
A film titled 'Fire at sea averted by crew heroism' shows American liner Viking Princess emitting smoke due to a fire that occurred in its engine room in Windward Passage in the Caribbean. Except for two, all the other 496 passengers were safely evacuated by the crew. Cruise ship passengers arrive at Miami airport from a United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Passengers meet their family and friends.
Opening scene shows a Navy anti-submarine warfare SH-3A helicopter, of ASM Squadron HS-11, from Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 52 (CVSG-52) on the Carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18). It is filmed from another nearby helicopter as it executes a "dippiing sonar" procedure during fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea. .It is seen lowering an ASW tranducer, into the water by means of a cable. The helicopter remains in a hover throughout the sequence, with the sonor buoy deployed.
Map of the Caribbean is shown. A German sailor aboard a German submarine looks through his binoculars. The submarine moves through heavy seas. German officer looks through submarine's periscope. The coastline of Curacao is seen through the periscope. An allied freighter is spotted. German sailors prepare to attack. Shows several instrument panels, radar and gauges inside the submarine. Torpedo is fired from the submarine. German sailors cerebrate at the deck. Allied freighter gets destroyed and sunk. (World War II period).
U.S. African American troops in Caribbean Islands during a practice mission in World War II. Troops rush to practice alert. The troops man artillery batteries. Troops man a radar station and use aircraft detector and range finder. An artillery gun fired.