Americans display (holding it upside down) a huge Japanese rising sun Vice Admiral rank flag , captured after a desperate "banzai" attack by Japanese forces on Saipan, during World War 2. A photograpner takes a picture. Ammunition left on the ground from the battle. Two knocked-out Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tanks. Destroyed defensive positions and buildings. Americans examine remains of buildings and defensive positions. Several local civilians walk into the center of the scene of death and destruction. Dead Japanese soldiers are seen everywhere, throughout the sequence. (Note: Aftermath of the "Tanapag Plain banzai attack" on July 6th and 7th, 1944. Americans engaged included units of the 105th Infantry; 165th Infantry; 23rd Marines; 24th Marines; 25th Marines; 20th Marines; and 10th Marines.)
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Herman's crew whales and processes its catch. A whale alongside the ship. It emerges from the water and dives back. A second boat comes from the ship to assist the first one. The boats return to the ship after whaling. A crew member looks at the catch. They hoist the whale boats up to the ship. Men scrape and wash whale bone (baleen). Captain Pedersen examines a whale bone. The whaler near an ice sheet. A man with a can. Ropes from the ship.
Two USAF F-80 Shooting Star aircraft in loose formation descending slowly over wintry terrain and seen, from another aircraft, as they fly above treetops.
United States Air Force and Army rescue operations during an avalanche in the Alaskan Mountain Ranges in the United States. United States Air Force personnel and civilians carry supply boxes and crates to a C-123 B aircraft. The crates are piled up on a field. They are loaded onto the plane. Men inside the aircraft check the crates.
Wiley Post hands a can of exposed film to a Pathe News representative while standing in front of his Winnie Mae airplane. Closeup of Pathe News logo with the words 'Winnie Mae Round the World Filght' on Wiley Post's airplane. Wiley Post waves to camera as he enters his plane. Wiley Post wears an early pressure suit fitted with a metal helmet.
View from aloft, aboard Coast Guard Cutter breaking through ice in Alaskan waters. View at bow, as icebreaker moves ahead and then backs up again. View of park benches and a baseball field on shore. An industrial complex on hill in distance is topped by large oil tank with "Sinclair" painted across it. Crew members lean over railing at bow to watch the ice being broken. View from aloft of the stern, as the Cutter moves into open waters. American flag seen briefly, aloft. A tug boat is seen making its way through ice in harbor. Heavy wake from the cutter is seen. The tug boat moves into channel created by the Cutter, very close to shore.
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