Three Curtiss N-9 Training Seaplanes, ostensibly piloted by student aviators, take off from waterfront at Pensacola, Florida, carrying a news photographer with them. View from rear cockpit of airplane tail and wake in the water as one of the planes commences takeoff. Brief glimpse of a Vought Corsair I (O2U) seaplane atop the Battleship USS Colorado (BB-45) and after it has been lowered to the water at the battleship's stern. Several Navy biplanes landing on the USS Langley (CV-1) as she is underway. A flight of Loening OL-5 amphibian aircraft, as viewed past the tail of one of them, in flight. Fifteen U.S. Navy biplanes flying in formation. A Consolidated P2Y-1 Ranger seaplane taking off from water past an Omaha-class light cruiser. Illustrated map of Hawaii showing location is relation to surrounding major land masses.
Elevated view of traffic on a street in Honolulu, Hawaii. Vehicles drive past on a busy street with buildings all along. The Aloha clock tower seen in the distance. Hawaiian civilians cross the road. A U.S. navy enlisted sailor looks over a captured two man Japanese submarine. The submarine placed on a metal stand.
Scenes of French civilians and German army vehicles on street in Paris, France during the Nazi occupation. The French, American and the United Kingdom flags flutter from a pole high over a building. French civilians read notices and walk in a street. Men ride bicycles. A board on a building reads 'Deutsches Soldatenkino' meaning "German Soldier's Cinema". The German flags on a building. Army trucks drive past on a road.
U.S.Army Air Corps P-47s with engines running, taxiing our for takeoff. Army personnel in Runway control unit with signal light.(Few seconds of film reversed.) Among the aircraft seen is P-47D, number 42-28543 named “Pat” piloted by Capt. Gordon S Stevens,of Smithfield,North Carolina, of the 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, stationed in England.(He was killed in action, 18 September 1944.) Views of the P-47s enroute to join up with B-17 bomber formations. P-51s and P-38s taking off. P-51s inflight to relieve P-47s of escort duty.US pilot with mission profile inked on back of his hand. Narrator (Ronald Reagan?) describes the way successive relays of U.S. fighters relieved each other performing bomber escort duties. Scenes from captured German film shows alarm sounding and German fighter pilots scrambling in Me-109s and FW-190s to intercept the U.S. bombers. Escorting U.S. P-51s jettison their long range drop tanks preparing to meet attacking German interceptors. Gun camera footage shows many German fighters being destroyed.P-47s, P-51s and P-38s firing their guns. Several Me-109s in formation. German gun camera clip showing many B-17s being shot to pieces by 22mm gunfire and falling, often in flames.
Two police motorcycles escort a black truck carrying Martin Insull, following his deportation from Canada. The truck displays "Atlas Bro Co" across its top. (Martin is brother of the famous fugitive, Samuel Insull who fled the country following the collapse of his various utility company holding companies, most notably Middle Western Utilities.) Martin Insull is being brought to the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, to answer charges about his involvement in the matter. Scene shifts to Cook County Courthouse where Martin Insull is escorted by various officials. A group of men and women stand in the area. Some exhibit signs of distress. View from above of the Cook County jail. Smoke from stacks obscuring it somewhat. Change of scene shows heavily armed FBI agents escorting handcuffed and chained gangster George Francis Barnes aka “Machine Gun Kelly" at an American Airlines facility in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1933. They escort him past a parked airplane. Closeup of the "Lima News" of Lima, Ohio, with headline reflecting a national federal campaign against gangsters and criminals in the U.S. View of crowded courtroom. View of Alcatraz prison on its rock island in San Francisco Bay, California. Interior view of cell blocks in Alcatraz. Federal officials escorting arrested men in handcuffs who hide their faces as they approach the camera.
Crowd of workers outside a rifle factory. Trolleys pass each other on streets while driving through crowd of workers coming and going outside the armament factory.
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