A bulldozer excavates a shelter trench in a public park in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the start of World War 2. A street and commercial buildings are in the background. The bulldozer digs the trench deeper. Shovel of the bulldozer lifts the dirt. Civilian workers dig trenches in another location in Honolulu, next to a street.
The Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin Buddhist temple and surrounding hills in Honolulu, Hawaii. Clouds in the sky pass over the hills. A traditional Japanese wooden temple made from wood in the temple grounds.
Industrial activity in Hawaii. Flat cars loaded with material pass on railroad tracks in Honolulu, Hawaii early in World War 2. Smoke issues from smoke stacks of factories. Clouds in the sky. Flat cars loaded down with supplies. A factory processing pineapple.
President Rutherford Birchard Hayes' house in Ohio, United States. View of President Hayes's tomb. View of President James Abram Garfield's house in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Tomb and statue of President Garfield. View of the birth place of President William McKinley at Niles, Ohio. Scene shifts to Queen Liliʻuokalani at Royal Parade in Honolulu Hawaii. (Her throne was relinquished to the United States in 1893.) Men, women and children participate in the parade. Queen Liliuokalani reviews the parade and greets dignitaries. Sanford B. Dole, first Governor of Hawaii, views the parade. Hawaiian soldiers parade, followed by United States armed forces. A mounted band plays on horseback.
Business activities in Honolulu, Hawaii. President of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce Tatsuo Yamamoto and Secretary Tsunoda. Members of Hawaii Legislature include Baker, Paschoal, Robinson, McFarland and Pasqual Akina Keolohe at a formal gathering.
Scenes of Amelia Earhart taxiing her Lockheed Vega 5B airplane to the ramp, at Oakland Airport, on January 12, 1935, having left Wheeler Field, Honolulu the day before. This completed her solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii (the first person to successfully accomplish such a transpacific flight). Crowds her airplane as she taxis in, and parks near a hangar of the U.S. Naval Air Station. Amelia stands in the cockpit of her airplane, holding a bouquet of flowers, as crowds mill about on the ramp beneath. Change of scene shows Amelia standing on a steel platform, of the airport tower, with her husband, George Putnam. Closeups of Amelia.
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