The airborne "City of Chicago" airplane circling the Sky Harbor Airport, at Northbrook, Illinois, setting a new flight endurance record. A large number of people gathered at the airport looking skywards. Stinson SM-1 aircraft, known as "Big Ben," flown by their brothers Albert and Walter, refuels City of Chicago in mid air. After refueling is complete, the hose is seen to drop free from the "City of Chicago." One of the Hunter brothers on the nose of "City of Chicago" as he inspects an engine. Civilians look at the sky.
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.
Westland Mine coal mine workers, wearing helmets with lights, are gathered in a room as they listen to a radio news broadcast in a local office of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to the labor strike by 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. Maps of Westland mines No. 1 and 2 are among many that line the walls of the office. The mine workers look at a notice of the Government takeover ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, and a notice to their union, The United Mine Workers of America. Coal miners check their personal equipment in preparation for entering mines, with the strike now ended.
Amphibious forces of United States Army leave Guadalcanal harbor to attack enemy positions on the Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. troops and equipment are loaded aboard LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry). Marines and infantry board the LCIs. Landing crafts loaded with troops head for an LST (Landing Ship Tank) anchored at Guadalcanal harbor. Amphibious forces underway in the Pacific Ocean head for New Georgia on the Solomon Islands. Soldiers look through binoculars. U.S. Army Air Force fighter aircraft in the sky. .
Workmen wearing hard hats rig catwalks for the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. The first footways being laid between the towers of the huge new Golden Gate Bridge rising 750 feet above San Francisco Bay.
Ruins in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. The entrance to a Savings Bank which is set up and doing business in a light wooden structure built inside the shell of the original bank building. A Japanese man pulls a cart along a road which has been partially cleared. A man walks through debris of a collapsed building. A Japanese man cleans away rubble from his property, preparatory to planting his garden and erecting his new home. A Japanese telephone maintenance man repairs lines on a telephone pole. A group of Japanese children collects sea shells near a bridge along the fringe of Motoyasu River.
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