Activities of U.S. 8th Army Air Forces in the European Theater during World War II. An airplane takes off from an airfield. Airplanes lined up on the airfield. They take off from the field and fly in formation overhead. Men load a bomb in the bomb bay of an airplane. A pilot in the cockpit of the airplane. Airplanes fly in formation. Airplanes parked on the airfield.
Antisubmarine activities of the United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Cutters and airships of the USCG and U.S. Navy patrol around a convoy underway. U.S. Navy airship in the air. The U.S. Navy, the USCG and the U.S. Merchant Marine work together. An officer watches enemy action through binoculars. The U.S. flag flying from a flag mast. A man watches through binoculars and other men prepare for a counter attack. Man operates signal light to relay information. Depth charges readied and guns are fired from the ships. They sink a German submarine after it torpedoes a merchant ship. Merchant seamen come aboard a cutter from a life raft.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. Group of men gathered at a stream bed digging and panning for gold. Dramatization of a sailing ship leaving dock as gathered crowd of men, women, and children wave goodbye from dock during mid 1800's Gold Rush. Merchant Marine sailing ships underway at sea. Men working on a clipper ship. Views of tall sailing clipper ships at full sail and in storms with dramatization of crews battling to stay afloat during storm. Clipper ships round Cape Horn during the California Gold Rush of 1849 (dramatized). Fulton's steamship, the North River Steamboat, or Clermont, sails up the Hudson River. Smoke from the stacks of the steam ship. View of a steamship overtaking a sailing vessel at sea, as narrator describes the demise of the tall sailing ships after the arrival of the steamship. (World War II period).
A German submarine underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. German sailors and officer aboard the submarine. They watch a U.S. ship through a periscope. A sailor watches the target through binoculars. The submarine emerges out of water and torpedoes the ship. The ship burns. German sailors watch the burning ship and cheer.
Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States during World War II. A Japanese aircraft carrier underway at sea. Japanese officials aboard the aircraft carrier discuss amongst themselves. An airplane takes off from the aircraft carrier ship for attack. Japanese sailors watch the airplane. Airplanes fly in formation overhead.
Activities of the United States Army in South Vietnam during the Battle of Khe Sanh of the Vietnam War. U.S. Army troops including African American soldiers load and fire an M-107, 175 mm self propelled gun from a revetment. One of the soldiers talks over a phone. Smoke rises from the firing of the gun. The howitzer is turned to fire in another direction.
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