Aerial View of the Hoover Dam in Nevada. Automobile traffic driving alongside of and on top of Hoover Dam. Generators in the power house of Hoover Dam. Wide shot of Hoover Dam. Closeup us raging Colorado River water, followed by shot of controlled stream from Hoover Dam.
Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. Yachts of all shapes and sizes take off from Los Angeles on a 3-week sail to Hawaii as the Transpacific Yacht Race starts. Yachts underway at sea for 2000 mile run, mountains in the background. Sailors on the yachts. The yachts at sea.
U.S. Air Force jets completes Atlantic Round Trip. U.S. Air Force aircraft lands after completion of a round trip circuit of two U.S. Air Force jet tankers Bravo and Alpha from New York to London. A man signals for landing. The pilot in the cockpit. Air Force personnel disembark the jet. Personnel are greeted by an officer.
Training of American troops of Japanese ancestry, at Camp Shelby in Mississippi, during World War 2. Film opens showing a steam locomotive heading toward the camera, pulling a long train of passenger cars from which U.S. Army troops of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, comprising American soldiers of Japanese ancestry, are seen waving from the windows. They step from the train, carrying their personal gear in duffle bags. Two African American train porters in white coats assist some soldiers as they leave the train. The troops load their gear and climb aboard canvas covered 2-1/2 ton army trucks that drive into Camp Shelby. The camp's Water tower and chapel building are seen in background. One soldier reads newspaper with headline:"Rommel Reported Moving Out Men,"(referring to German General Rommel and his Afrika Korps). Next scene shows troops gathering up their gear and marching off the their billets
Opening scene shows U.S. soldiers of Japanese ancestry, in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, moving en masse over a training obstacle. Views from the side and headon, as the troops come charging down the obstacle. Next, they traverse a deep trench containing some fixed obstacles, and proceed over a berm.View of them descending at a run. The troops charge toward, and taking cover in, trenches and simulated shell holes. A view of them assembled in the grass across from the camera, which is separated from them by part of the obstacle course. Suddenly, an explosion occurs in the obstacle course, close to the camera. (World War II period).
Members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team are seen assembled near instructors at Camp Shelby in Mississippi. Barracks are behind them. Two 37mm anti-tank artillery pieces are positioned nearby. Camp instructors roll another one closer to the camera, and an instructor points out its features to a 442nd officer, as the troops also observe. The troops then come forward and watch closely as several instructors demonstrate the operation of the weapon. Next, two 442nd troops take up positions at the field piece and are coached through the motions of its operation.Closeup of soldiers manning the gun.
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