U.S. Army Overseas Motion Picture Exchange in New York, United States during World War II. U.S. soldiers take films from a rack and put them into a fiber case. Soldiers at a shipping table putting fiber film cases into a carton for overseas shipping. A sign on a door: "War Department, Army Service Forces, Special Service Division, New York Branch, Overseas Motion Picture Service". The door is opened and a soldier leaves with a film case. Another soldier leaves the office.
United States 5th Air Force transport service in Port Moresby, New Guinea during World War II. Aerial view of ships harbored near Port Moresby. A sign board reads "Air Transport Enquiries Here, Refreight and Passage on Flying Boat". GIs get off a truck ambulance and are weighed on freight scales outside air terminals. U.S. Army soldier on a stretcher is transferred into a small boat at Port Moresby then moved out to a British Short S 23 Empire "C" Class flying boat. Local natives of New Guinea assist in transport efforts. Passengers and baggage loaded into the aircraft. Mountains in the background.
The skyline of New York. View of Queensboro Bridge, the 59th Street Bridge, a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. The skyscrapers seen in the background. View of the skyscrapers from Governors Island. Staten Island Ferry underway at sea in the foreground.
Pitcairn PCA-2 and PCA-1B autogyro in flight over city and harbor in New York. Pitcairn PCA-2 and PCA-1B autogyro takes off from a field piloted by J C Ray and C J Faulkner respectively. The autogyro flies over New York city below level of skyscrapers. The autogyro flies near Statue of Liberty. PCA-2 and PCA-1B in flight over city and harbor. Autogyro flies over the ships underway at sea.
U.S. Coast Guards capture liquor gamblers in New York during Prohibition. Men unload liquor aboard barges and speedboat docked at the New York harbor. A man watches the liquor bottles. Another man hauls a trolley loaded with liquor cartons. U.S. Coast Guard officials organize inquiries to capture two barges. The officials inspect the Canadian liquor barges. The officials capture the gamblers.
Formation of B-6A bombers flying over Southern Long Island, New York, above Jones Beach and South shore residential estates. They head northward where Long Island Sound and the North Shore of Long Island can be seen. In one aircraft, a West Point cadet is seen , sitting next to the pilot, in open cockpit of bomber, looking at map. The formation proceeds towards the Hudson River and over a dam, reservoir, and water aeration plant providing water to New York City..
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