U.S. Navy Fleet Review on Christmas Day, 1918, in New York City harbor. View from stern of a ship flying large American flag. Behind it are several other vessels, including a small ship flying the American flag. The wind is strong causing the flags to stand out sharply. Barrage balloons are seen in the sky overhead. The battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) passes nearby, with the ship's company lining her deck in formation around her railings. Sailors loading a deck gun to fire salutes from the camera ship, as a ferry boat passes in the background. A transport ship in camouflage is in far background. Army and Navy officers aboard the camera ship salute colors on passing ship (unseen). A Florida class battleship passing nearby with her company assembled on deck. A New York class battleship passing in review. Sailor firing deck gun in salute from camera ship. Another New York Class battleship passing in review. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and Secretary of War, Newton Baker, both in top hats, standing on deck of camera ship. The Statue of Liberty on Bedloes Island, in New York Harbor. The USS Texas (BB-35) passing in review, with a Camel Sopwith airplane on a launch platform installed atop her gun turret number 2. More battleships making way in trail formation. Aerial view from low altitude of the USS Arizona (BB-39).
Construction of aircraft, during World War I, at the German factory, Albatros Werke GmbH, located on Johannisthal airfield near Berlin. Wood is unloaded for use. Machinery for a woodworking room. Stacks of wooden planks. Men work on the machinery. Ribs are cut for wings. Men operate machinery. They cut the ribs and stringers. Men work on wooden structures. Women at work on parts of aircraft. Wing assemblies are wired and covered. Assembling of the complete cell. Fuselage sections are assembled and sanded in the assembly department. Tail and wing sections are attached to the fuselage. A large number of aircraft in process in the plant. Finished aircraft seen in a shed include an Albatros C.1 reconnaissance airplane and several early models of Albatros C.III, with small vertical stabilizers. The C.III tail was made larger in the version later produced at Ostdeutsche Albatros Werke, in Schneidemühl, Pommern,Prussia (Present day Poland).
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge attends Memorial Day services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. The President speaks at the podium. Mrs. Coolidge, U.S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis and U.S. Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur also at the ceremony. They all walk down a flight of stairs and approach the Tomb of the Unknown. The President lays flowers, takes off his hat and crosses his heart. He puts on his hat and moves away. Mrs. Coolidge come forward to pay respects.
Conditions in Japan in 1927-1928. An animated map of the Pacific Ocean depicts the growth of Japanese military might since 1894. The map depicts areas under Japanese empire in 1894, the Chinese Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Russian Japanese War Of 1904-1905 (Russo-Japanese War), the territory under Japanese influence and World War I from 1914-1918. Officers watch as Japanese soldiers march. Japanese cavalry units. Soldiers run forward. Japanese Emperor Hirohito looks at the maneuvers at the Imperial Japanese Military Academy in Tokyo. He salutes standing at a dais. The soldiers parade. A naval smoke screen is laid to shield the army at a river crossing. The Emperor looks on as soldiers in a barge land at a shore. Two vessels in a water body. Japanese sailors march. Emperor Hirohito in conversation with military officials. From the deck of his flagship 'Katori', he watches as naval guns are fired.
A parade in Buffalo, New York. A large crowd of junior birdmen salute United States Army Air Corps pilot Jimmy Doolittle. Jimmy Doolittle on a dais with dignitaries.
Newsreel entitled "Maple Leafs Beat Visiting Orioles in Diamond Opener." Footage is from opening day 1937 in the double-A International League, then one of the top minor leagues in North American baseball. View of packed stands at Maple Leaf Stadium in Toronto. British flag raised before the start of game. (Canada was then technically a self-governing dominion of Great Britain.) Players put caps back on after national anthems. Teams run off the field. William Donald Ross, a Canadian politician who was co-owner of the Maple Leafs, throws a baseball. Orioles player hits a single. Maple Leafs player hits a single. More shots of the crowd
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