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Story of the U.S. Navy Seabees (Fighting construction men). History, recruitment, training, and deployment of the Seabees.

History and story of the Seabees. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks speaks in his office in Washington, DC. A view of the U.S. Capitol building through his window. He gives a brief history of the Seabees and introduces the film. Retrospective footage shows a formation of Japanese warplanes. Views of Honolulu, Hawaii, Midway, Taviti, and Wake Islands. U.S. civilian construction workers. Hickam and Wheeler fields, in Hawaii, being bombed by Japanese airplanes during attack on December 7, 1941. U.S. Navy ships in Pearl Harbor burning. U.S. casualties on stretchers. American soldiers raising the flag with fire and smoke behind them. Seebee recruitment poster. Volunteers going to enlist. Navy Seabee trainees learning military and construction skills. Practicing methods of rapid construction for combat zones. Trainees negotiating obstacle courses. Amphibious assault training. Seabee units parading in dress whites, followed by Seabees in some of their combat vehicles: DUKWs, construction graders, and bulldozers. U.S. Navy sailors loading onto railroad train cars as a newly trained battalion of Seabees leaving training camp by train. A band plays seeing them off. Seabees loading up at a port of embarkation. A troop ship seen. The troop ship moving away from the wharf, with help from tugboat. (World War II period).

Location: Davisville Rhode Island USA
Date: 1944, December
Duration: 7 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044964
United States sail boat 'Constellation' defeats British 'Sovereign' in America's Cup sailboat cup race in the United States.

America's Cup sailboat race of 1964 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Sail boat 'Constellation' defeats British 'Sovereign' sailing vessel in four straight races. The sail boats underway in the ocean. Other boats monitor the race. 'Constellation' way ahead of 'Sovereign'.

Location: Newport Rhode Island USA
Date: 1964, December 24
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046615
Three prisoners escape from Alcatraz prison, warden shows their pictures to the press in California.

Three bank robbers escape from Alcatraz prison in California on June 11, 1962. Escape proof Alcatraz prison at Island. Drainage pipe opening into the sea. Sign reads 'Keep Out'. People outside the prison. Official seated at a table, while photographers click pictures. Warden with pictures of three prisoners; Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin. Dummies in beds of the prisoners. Drain pipes at the top of a cell block. Coast guard watch looks through binoculars as San Francisco bay is searched. A helicopter flies overhead during the search.

Location: Alcatraz Island California USA
Date: 1962, June 14
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046759
United States Nuclear Test Operation Ivy: King test

United States conducts nuclear tests for Operation King at Enewetak Atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) in the Marshall Islands. Footage of King test, which involved a prototype of a Mk 18 Super Oralloy bomb ("SOB") dropped by a B-36H bomber. Broken clouds in sky. Whiteness of blast from atomic bomb obscures the area. Shock wave spreads over the water, the mushroom cloud with its thin trunk extends up from the water, top of the cloud becomes very white. Mushroom cloud churns up further skyward.

Location: Enewetak Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1952, November 16
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046796
U.S. troops fire artillery guns, rockets and grenades to take out enemies hidden behind pillboxes in Garapan on Saipan.

The joint force assault by the American Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force against Japanese on Garapan, the capital city of Saipan in the Mariana Islands, during World War 2. U.S. artillery guns are fired at Japanese forces. U.S. troops carry their injured men under cover of a tank. Rockets are fired to take down enemy snipers. Incendiary grenades are fired to smoke the enemies out of their pillboxes. A Japanese soldier is taken as prisoner.

Location: Garapan Saipan Mariana Islands
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050446
U.S. marines on Saipan after securing it during World War II

U.S. Marines on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War 2. A shirtless U.S. marine poses in front of a truck. A wounded marine carried on a litter to a dock. Marines and vehicles seen at base of so-called "Suicide Cliff" on Saipan. Marines gathered on and around a U.S. M3 Gun Motor Carriage (75mm). Two marines carry a fallen comrade (completely covered on a litter). View of marines gathered on the beach, around several Japanese prisoners seated beneath some sort of Japanese structure supporting a scale.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050870
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