Launching of Destroyer, USS Dallas (DD199) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A. Shipyard workers and guests cheer and wave American flags as the USS Dallas goes down the ways into the water.
Still photo: Men standing near the nose of a Thomas-Morse S4C Scout aircraft (sometimes called a Tommy).
Still photo taken at an unidentified airfield, presumably in Italy. An Italian bomber aircraft parked on the airfield. Some hangar buildings in the distant background.
Opens with slate that says 'Crossing the Line'. Depicts King Neptune shellback initiation ceremony aboard USS Idaho in the Atlantic Ocean en route to Rio de Janeiro. Slate indicates that President Elect of Brazil de Pessoa was on board. Sailors lie down on the ship deck. The captain welcomes King Neptune's messengers aboard the ship. They inform the captain that King Neptune will visit his ship. King Neptune and Queen Amphitrite are welcomed aboard the ship by the captain. The ship's officers are introduced to the Royal visitors. Queen Amphitrite meets old friends. The Court of King Neptune with sailors dressed in various costumes. The Royal barber shaves and cleans each sailor. The sailors are immersed in Neptune's salty water. View of a certificate awarded to a sailor following his successful initiation.
Baroness de la Rouche,world's first woman flier, climbing down from an airplane. Attendants meet her and place a coat around her shoulders.
German U-boat U-111, that was surrendered, after the armistice, and interned at Harwich, England, is seen docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in New York City. It was brought from Harwich by an American crew to help stimulate subscriptions in East Coast cities, during the Victory Bond drive . Sailors demonstrate movement of the deck gun on the U-boat. They also raise the periscope, in a demonstration, while the boat is still docked. Principal naval officers, currently in command, Lieutenant Commanders Garnet Halings and G.W. Russell , pose on the deck with members of the crew including some perched on the conning tower of the submarine. View of German and United States flags on the U-111.