Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents undergo their training in the United States. A field training for the agents. They fire rifles at target boards. The training continues in night. The agents fire rifles and hit the target boards at night. FBI Director John Edgar Hoover addresses the nation and talks about the goal of eradication of crime from the country.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. Paintings of the founders of the U.S. Navy like John Paul Jones. Merchant ships underway at sea. Men work on a ship. Men standing on the deck of the ship. A map locates places. Dramatizations of sailing ships in combat against pirates in the Atlantic Ocean. They fought against the pirates during the Revolutionary War and in the war of 1812. Men fire deck guns from a ship. Smoke arises due to the firing. People lined up outside a building. Officials seated inside a building.
Led by U.S. soldiers in a jeep, a group of civilians with hands on their heads (German civilians being expelled from Czechoslovia or possibly also Czechs accused of collaboration with Germany) are marched under guard by Czech partisans,along a wide cobblestone street in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. View from above in building across the street, as American soldiers escort high-ranking German officers from their headquarters, into a waiting halftrack. Several Czech civilians taken prisoner by a Czech woman carrying a pistol. view from a building on Klatovska street, of American flag flying next door, and American troops in a line of halftracks on the street below. view up the street towards Masaryk square, shows Czech flag flying above the American flag on next-door building. Twin Spires of the neo-romanesque church of St.John Nepomuk on Chodske square in distance.
Segments of color footage shot for John Ford's wartime documentary on the Battle of Midway, during World War II. Sailors near a gun aboard a U.S. warship. Individual Douglas SBDs repeatedly fly overhead. An SBD dauntless ditches in the sea. A destroyer approaches to rescue the crew.
Color footage shot under the direction of John Ford, whose film crew was stationed at Midway during the battle. Japanese aircraft flying above Midway Island as they commence attacks. U.S. Marines firing an antiaircraft machine gun. Black flak bursts in the sky. Four SB2U - 3 ‘Vindicator’ dive bombers, of Marine Corps VMSB-241, taking off from Midway Island, with single bombs slung under their bellies. They pass a B-17 parked at side of runway. Japanese planes bombing Midway. An explosion near the camera with debris flying all about. A bomb hits only yards away from the camera. A hangar hit and on fire. American airplane overhead. Another bomb burst with debris thrown everywhere. U.S. Marines trying to deal with destruction and fires. Close up as they raise the American flag on a tall flagpole. A flaming fuel tank raising black smoke with the flag flying in the midst of the destruction. A Japanese airplane in flames. A jeep driving over debris near a destroyed U.S. airplane. Marine medic with red cross armband.More bombs striking fuel storage facilities and causing huge flames and black smoke. A Japanese airplane struck by machine gun fire loses power and crashes. The wing panel of a PBY Catalina, painted to simulate a crashed Japanese aircraft, has a puddle of gasoline burning in the middle of the "meatball" insignia.
American and French Army officers, on horseback, salute as a French and American infantry parade on a field in France during World War 1. The American and French flags are carried and various contingents of troops carry their respective identifying colors. Mounted officers accompany their units. General John J.Pershing reviews the joint French-American parade with French President Raymond Poincare and French Prime Minister Paul Painleve. French and American staff officers stand in the background. Animated map show the U.S. flag being overlayed on a smoldering Europe. A U.S. Stars & Stripes shield. (Note: Interestingly, only infantry units participate in this parade. No cavalry, or artillery are involved and rifles are the only weapons seen.)
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