United States soldiers aboard a Liberty ship underway in the Pacific Ocean towards the end of World War II. A ship anchored at a quay with a crane at the dock. Smoke rises from the stacks of the ship while it is anchored at the harbor. Soldiers on the dock. Equipment is being carried away in trailers after unloading. Sea gulls fly in the foreground. The bow of the anchored ship. Huge wooden crates in the foreground. Equipment being carried away at the dock. Military trucks lined up. A truck with a crane mounted on it.
Men riding the surf in Hawaii. Men ride the surf in outrigger. Diamond Head, a volcanic mountain in the background. Man on surfboard rides surf. Man and woman on surfboard ride surf. Several views of men riding surf in outrigger.
U.S. Army Air Corps flying cadets and instructors proceeding to a line of Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 airplanes at a training base in the U.S. A change of scene shows U.S. Army Air Corps pilots of the 8th Pursuit Group at Langley Field, Virginia, proceeding to a line of Curtiss P-36 Hawk airplanes. They start engines and begin to taxi out on the ramp. Unit insignia of the 33rd, 35th and 36th Pursuit Squadrons,respectively, are painted on the fuselages of the aircraft. They perform a mass takeoff and later fly over the field in formation.
(Before the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War 2). United States Army soldiers arriving in Hawaii. A truck convoy on a road. The soldiers aboard the trucks. Supplies and equipment loaded on the trucks. The soldiers arrive at U.S. Army camps. Soldiers running in a line in the camp. Soldiers include some who appear to be of Japanese-American descent or Hawaiian descent. They carry their luggage on shoulders and stand outside the tents. Closeup view of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Walter Short on a street in front of a staff car, confers with a civilian. (This is before General Short's reduction in rank to Major General which followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. General Short had been responsible for the defense of U.S. military institutions in Hawaii at the time of the attack.)
Soldiers of the U.S. Army's 16th Coast Artillery Regiment. practice operating a 14-inch disappearing rifle in Shore Battery Randolph at Ft. DeRussy, Honolulu, Hawaii. They load the gun and then raise its carriage bringing it into firing position above the battery's shielding parapet. In change of scene Infantrymen of the 298th Regiment. work on pillboxes along a Hawaiian beach. Soldiers set up a 37mm gun on a portable mount. The barrel of a .50-caliber machine gun shows from a pillbox firing slit.
Aerial views of the Hawaiian islands, United States. Cameraman records the scenes. Airplanes flies in formation over the island. Planes in flight over the mountains.
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