A woman of the U.S. Navy WAVES program ("Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service") operating motion picture projectors in a projection booth, during World War 2. She wears a short-sleeve white shirtwaist and black seaman's tie pushed back on each side. she watches the screen (unseen) while monitoring the projectors. The sequence is interrupted. It picks up again as she is seen threading the film on a motion picture film projector and starting it
U.S. Iowa-class Battleship displays its 16-inch guns in triple turrets, during World War 2. The turrets rotate independently during the demonstration. U.S. Navy sailors riding on motorized dolleys transporting bombs on a Naval base. A flight of three U.S. Navy F6F aircraft, equipped with centerline gasoline drop tanks, is seen in formation. The flight leader, begins to dive. Partial closeup of a U.S. heavy cruiser, with forward triple turret guns elevated toward the port stern and next set of guns only slightly elevated in the same direction.
Views from on deck, as the U.S. Navy Battleship, North Carolina (BB-55), fires salvoes from her 16 inch, 45 caliber guns, in triple turrets, at sea, during World War 2. View of the North Carolina from another ship as she fires her 5-inch, 38 caliber guns. Complete change of scene, to front view of torpedoes aboard a U.S. Fletcher class Destroyer. The Destroyer launches one set of 5 Mk 15 torpedoes while underway. She rotates two turrets containing 5-inch guns.
German Mobilization showing advance of soldiers through streets of Germany, preparing to head to the war front. German officers and Chief of Staff Paul Von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff in Germany. Group of men listening to a person speaking. Dignitaries in a conference. Crowd move on streets.
British troops following a Mark IV tank on a road beside war damaged village houses. Troops of the The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment consolidating their positions in a captured German trench. Group of British gunners who have been in action since the Battle of Mons, in 1914, relax and take a smoking break in a trench area.
Ocean liners Leviathan and Mauretania coming toward New York City pier. American Troops of the 27th Division disembarking from ocean liners, at the end of World War 1 service. Soldiers walking down ramp from USS Leviathan to dock.
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