Blasts occur at an office below the German consulate and Communist headquarters in New York City, United States. Officers enter a building. A sign in German. Shattered glasses at the office below the Nazi consulate. Broken pieces of glass scattered around a desk. Broken pieces of glass spread around a window. The officers exit the building. A shattered display window at the Communist headquarters. A bust of Stalin with books in the background.
Daniel Beard addresses a gathering in New York, United States. A large number of Scouts from the Boy Scouts of America gathered at the World's Fair Festival in honor of the 90th birthday of Daniel Beard, who helped found the Boy Scouts. Daniel Carter Beard addresses the crowd. The boy scouts cheer and wave.
Scenes from the Harvest Moon Ball Amateur Dance Championship held in 1943 at Madison Square Garden, New York City. A Viennese Waltz performance is shown first, with dancing pairs waltzing. Audiences enjoy the different performances. A band plays music. Dancing couples in the Lindy Hop Division perform next. Many scenes of jazz and swing era Lindy hop dancing with acrobatic swings, dips and twists.
7th War Bond drive opens at Times Square in New York City, during World War 2. A large number of people gathered at the occasion. Crowd gathered around a statue of the flag raising on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan. (This is the original plaster edition created by sculptor Dr. Felix W. de Weldon, which served as the model for the future Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington Virginia). Soldiers seated as they look at the flag raising statue. Three survivors of the flag raising raise the American flag at the ceremony to promote the sale of bonds during the 7th War Bond drive: Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and PhM 2/c John H. Bradley, USN.
United States Coast Guard chases illegal liquor smugglers in Stapleton, New York during prohibition. A Coast Guardsman aboard a ship fires at a speeding boat of rum smugglers including Jim Deering. The Coast Guards at a harbor as they embark onto a speed boat and it pulls away. They chase the smugglers. They arrest the smugglers and confiscate illicit liquor cargo. The smugglers with their hands held up. Officers bring them to the dock.
General Douglas MacArthur (Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area) steps from a B-17 bomber at the airfield on Goodenough Island, New Guinea, during World War 2. He converses with Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger, Commander of the Sixth United States Army in the South West Pacific Area. Next they are seen sitting in a spruced up patrol boat underway in waters not far from the island (seen in background). A line of Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVT-1s) filled with soldiers, is seen moving across a field. On continues past an audience of sailors and soldiers, and enters the waters off the island. It continues, kicking up a wake as it moves through the water. A line of LVT-1s filled with troops, waits to also enter the water.
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