United States Air Corps Lieutenant Roscoe Charles Wilson is seen wearing civilian clothing and parachute. Lt. R.C. Wilson, a pilot, climbs into the cockpit of a modified Boeing P-26 fuselage. The fuselage is mounted in a jig designed to protect the propeller during landing accidents. The entire fuselage is tipped over slowly as a means of demonstrating the protection device. Lieutenant Wilson in cockpit pushing against sponge rubber in top of canopy.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. A dog mobile railroad at Nome in Alaska. Dogs pull the rail car with people seated in it. The 50 miles long railroad. Herman in the docks. Crew waves to the natives as they depart. Herman arrives at Port Clarence. A fishing camp on the beach. Natives near tents at the camp. A native woman seated.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Salmon drying on sticks in the village. A native holds puppies in his arms. Men play a sport. A man holds a bundle on a stick as another man runs towards it. Houses in the background. Natives row a boat. The whaler underway. A boat with a native overturns. He rows the boat.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Herman's crew whales and processes its catch. A whale alongside the ship. It emerges from the water and dives back. A second boat comes from the ship to assist the first one. The boats return to the ship after whaling. A crew member looks at the catch. They hoist the whale boats up to the ship. Men scrape and wash whale bone (baleen). Captain Pedersen examines a whale bone. The whaler near an ice sheet. A man with a can. Ropes from the ship.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The whaler at sea as it approaches first ice. Ice sheets in view. The bow of the ship breaks through young ice. Ship crosses between ice sheets. Large ice sheets in the water.
View of captured Japanese submarine I-401 during Operation Road's End. The boat is sunk as a target off Barber's Point, Oahu, Hawaii, on 31 May 1946. Closeup view of the I-401. Next, it is seen at some distance from the U.S. submarine, USS Trumpetfish (SS-425), as it moves away from the I-401. The Trumpetfish (unseen) fires two torpedoes, in succession, as it proceeds. The first strikes the I-401 just aft of the conning tower. A little later, the second strikes amidships. The I-401 is seen sinking, stern first.
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