German U boat U-234 after being captured by the United States in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New Hampshire during World War II. U-234 underway on the surface of water with YT( tugboats ) alongside. Portsmouth Lighthouse in the background. The submarine surfaces and is flanked by the tugboats.
Allied Supreme Commander for South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur en route to Milne Bay, New Guinea during World War 2. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid and Rear Admiral Van Hook at Archerfield in Brisbane, Australia. They await the arrival of General MacArthur. A car arrives at the airfield and General MacArthur gets out of the car. The General being greeted by the Admirals. Views inside aircraft of General MacArthur and the Admirals aboard MacArthur's personal B-17 Flying Fortress "Bataan" as they confer while the aircraft is in flight. Next scene shows three officers aboard US Navy ship USS Phoenix underway in the Pacific Ocean. A convoy of Allied ship underway in far background with a sailor at a blinker in the foreground.
New recruits receive military haircuts at the U.S. Great Lakes Naval Training Center in World War 2. Views of them taking swimming tests at a swimming pool. They line up outside a Training Center Chapel and march inside. A large group takes academic tests. Petty officera interview recruits, as they each are screened to see what specialties they are most suited for in the Navy. Several sit on a bench, comparing their job evaluations. A large formation of recruits doing pushups and other exercises, outdoors.
Opening scene shows new recruit sailors making up their bunks, at the U.S. Great Lakes Navy training center during World War 2. A broom being used by a sailor. Six recruits using their feet to clean a floor with scouring pads. Recruits sitting out of windows as they clean them in their barracks. Others with pails and cleaning materials on the barracks porch and cleaning the barracks latrine. The barracks members are seen lined up for inspection, which is announced by a bugler. A Lieutenant, Junior Grade, is escorted through the barracks and salutes the barracks chief as he leaves. Next, an honor guard of recruits, in whites, and shouldered arms, raise a rooster flag, outside their barracks, indicating a successful inspection. Recruits are seen engaged in their turn at cleaning shared entities, such as the mess and cooking facilities and staffing them during so-called Service Week. A recruit standing watch outside a building presents arms in salute, as an officer passes to enter. He tries to be observant, taking notice as a truck passes, and of a work party nearby. Scene shifts to sailors on watch aboard a ship. A sailor aboard ship, speaking into an intercom system. Bow view of a U.S. Navy Cruiser, showing heavy guns in her triple turrets. The sentry continuing to walk his post in a military manner. A petty officer demonstrating the venerable art of knot tying to a class of recruits, who then practice tying them, themselves. more views of recruits performing chores. Scene shifts to recruits being trained to operate 40mm Bofors antiaircraft guns. One is seen at controls of a pedestal-mounted M-1917 water-cooled 30 caliber machine gun. The anti aircraft batteries commence firing at a drone biplane seen flying overhead. A flood of tracers is seen directed toward the target drone.
The airborne "City of Chicago" airplane, a Stinson SM-1 "Detroiter," circling the Sky Harbor Airport at Northbrook, Illinois, while setting a new flight endurance record. A large number of people gathered at the airport looking skywards toward the aircraft being flown by John Hunter and Kenneth Hunter. A separate Stinson SM-1 aircraft, known as "Big Ben," flown by their brothers Albert Hunter and Walter Hunter, refuels the endurance aircraft in mid air, with a flexible hose connected from the refueling aircraft that is flying just above the other Stinson SM-1 aircraft. View from aboard the refueling aircraft, looking downward at Kenneth Hunter who is standing up in the open cockpit and directing the hose during the mid-flight refueling operation. After refueling is complete, the hose is seen to drop free from the "City of Chicago." One of the Hunter brothers standing up and leaning out toward the nose of the "City of Chicago" aircraft as he inspects the engine during mid-flight. View on the ground of civilians looking upward at the aircraft flying in the sky. (The "City of Chicago" record set during this flight was 553 hours, 41 minutes, 30 seconds in the air.)
Allied troops at a company rest area on Periers front below Carentan in Normandy, France during World War II. A jeep loaded with socks and new equipment pulls up into the rest area. A soldier washes feet in a helmet. A soldier shaves.
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