Birds and rock formation on Clipperton Island. Birds seated on a rock. Birds in flight. A jeep travels around the island. The coast of Clipperton Island. A rock formation shows a peninsula. A man walks on the rocks. Birds on rocks. A navigation light. Two birds in a nest.
Aerial view of Clipperton Island during Admiral Byrd's special Navy mission in the South Pacific. Shoreline of the island reveals massive stagnate freshwater lagoon within island's interior. Waves break against the coastline.
Animation shows U.S. strategy for advances against Japanese in the Solomon Islands, and beyond, emanating from bases on Guadalcanal. The remote island of Rendova. U.S. Army, Marine, and Seabee units landing on Rendova. A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber flies very low over the landing party. LVTs are seen (Landing Vehicle Track). Scenes of dense jungle. Large amounts of supplies are unloaded on the beachhead. U.S. troops set up antiaircraft guns on the beachhead. A formation of 4 Japanese dive bombers approaches. They peel off and attack. Fires burn from Japanese bombing. U.S. casualties being treated at the beachhead. U.S. marines exchange fire with Japanese snipers in dense jungle. Several dead Japanese soldiers. LSTs (Landing ship Tank) arrive at beachhead, carrying heavy armor and construction equipment. Seabees operating bulldozers on the island. 155 mm guns are pulled through the jungle, emplaced, and commence firing.
Aerial footage of 8 planes off in the distance. Closeup shot of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, with WW2 Lockheed P-38 Lightning airplanes flying far in the background. Closeup aerial shots of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft with the pilot visible in front of a thunderhead cloud. Various shots of Balalae Island, in the Solomon Islands. Bombs falling towards the island before explosions are seen along the airfield. Smoke rising from the impacts.
A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of foreign animal diseases. A technician works with bacteriological incubators to grow tissue cultures. Technicians inoculate a culture with foot and mouth disease virus of animal. The technicians carry out this procedure in a safety hood. Cattle are used as research animals and are held in quarantine for two weeks. Animals enter a research building after the quarantine period is over. The animals are herded through different doors in the building. A man dumps food for the animals in a chute. The cattle feed is processed in a hammer mill. Air passes through filters. Glass block openings in the research building. A guard patrols the area in a radio equipped vehicle. A fisherman's boat goes away from Plum Island coast. Two wire fences to isolate the area. A technician handles supplies.
U.S. Admiral Byrd's special navy mission in the South Pacific. Two men frolic with a small pig on Clipperton Island. Snow on the island. The pig runs and the two men run after it to catch it.
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