Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan bound for Hamburg Germany. The USS Manhattan underway at sea on July 15, 1936 en route to the 1936 Olympics. Athletes play a shuffleboard game aboard the ship. Jesse Owens, an American track and field athlete, Glenn Cunningham, and other famous persons aboard the ship. The passengers disembark from the ship in Hamburg. They are welcomed by German officials.
Activities of men aboard USS Olympus (AGC-8) in the Atlantic Ocean during Operation High Jump. Men hold a Christmas tree on the deck. The Christmas tree is hoisted into air. Men heave on the line attached to the tree. They secure lines. USS Sennet en route to Antarctica. USS Sennet (SS-408) in rough seas, bow pitches. USS Mt. Olympus in the foreground. Men on Mt. Olympus look out at USS Sennet pitching in rough seas.
Opening scene shows U.S. soldiers of Japanese ancestry, in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, moving en masse over a training obstacle. Views from the side and headon, as the troops come charging down the obstacle. Next, they traverse a deep trench containing some fixed obstacles, and proceed over a berm.View of them descending at a run. The troops charge toward, and taking cover in, trenches and simulated shell holes. A view of them assembled in the grass across from the camera, which is separated from them by part of the obstacle course. Suddenly, an explosion occurs in the obstacle course, close to the camera. (World War II period).
A U.S. Navy Task Force underway in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of Saipan of World War II. The task force at anchor. APs (Transports), BBs (Battleships) and CLs (Light Cruisers) underway as the task force leaves Kwajalein and is en route to Saipan. Guard mail transferred from a DD (Destroyer) alongside. A formation of airplanes passes. An airplane lands aboard a CVE (Escort Aircraft Carrier).
Evaluation of Japanese bomb-carrying balloons sent across the Pacific to the United States by Japan during World War 2. Gun camera footage of American fighter planes from Aleutian Island bases firing at Japanese balloons en route to the Pacific coast of the United States. A balloon bomb which reached the shores of the United States. but did not explode is examined by United States Army soldiers. They unfold the rice paper parachute portion of the balloon and examine its construction. Close-up views of the balloon control mechanism are shown, including a circular frame that would hold anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Details of the wet cell battery and ballast weights are shown, including barometric aneroid switches which would operate to release ballast from simple hooks, as needed, to control balloon altitude. Narrator indicates it is believed the main purpose of the bombs was to start brush and forest fires.
A celebration during the Cultural Revolution and the deification of Mao Zedong in Beijing, China. A large crowd of civilians gathered in a square during the celebration. Paper lanterns seen. Buildings in the background. The civilians cheer and celebrate, all waving their copies of Mao's Little Red Book (sometimes called the Mao bible). Dignitaries stand on a raised platform. Cho En Lai addresses the gathering. Mao Zedong stands nearby. Communist Chinese leaders lead the crowds in chants. A band plays and masses of Chinese march with flags and moving a gigantic image of Mao Zedong. The sky above Tiananmen Square is filled with balloons. A mass of Red Guard Chinese youth march with huge mural Poster depicting Chinese workers. Images of Marx, Lenin and Stalin are carried in the parade. Large crowds of Chinese people march in the Tiananmen Square, waving their copies of Mao's Little Red Book.
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