The ship S.S. Fort Jackson, part of the U.S. emergency fleet in 1929, is destroyed by salvage buyers at Richmond Beach in Washington. Flames and smoke rising as the S.S. Fort Jackson falls to pieces.
A celebration aboard a giant airplane high over New York City, en route to Atlantic City. Interior views of cabin of the airplane, and cockpit, while guests are seated in the plane during flight. They are served refreshments. Aerial view of the city of New York including skyscrapers like the Empire State Building. Aerial view of the George Washington Bridge spanning the Hudson River. British aviators James Mollison and his wife Amy Mollison are among guest honored by famous woman American Aviator Amelia Earhart on the flight. Heavy weight boxing champion Gene Tunney (with bandage on left side of face), artist Howard Chandler Christy and the publisher George Palmer Putnam are also among the guests. Stewardess or flight attendant is seen talking to pilots during flight, and serving drinks to guests. Gene Tunney smiles on receiving a drink.
The banker Edward Bremer tells the story of his kidnapping. He is at his home in Saint Paul in Minnesota. His abductors received a ransom of $200,000 ransom.
Labor strikers crowd around the entrances to a manufacturing plant as National Guardsmen herd strike-breakers (aka "scabs") into the shop New Albany. Women work at sewing machines in the factory. National Guard troops guard the shirt factory. Cars parked in the street. Ambulances carry-off the injured after a clash at another manufacturing plant in Jeffersonville.
A formation of 18 Curtiss P-40 aircraft, of the U.S.Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group, fly low over the shoreline of Long Island, New York, for gunnery practice. The bullets from their gunfire raise jets of water in the air as they strike the vicinity of what appears to be a sailboat target. Glimpse of a flight of three P-40s overhead. View of the floating target. More splashes from P-40 gunfire. A flight of 3 P-40s diving, and others forming up in formation. Remnants of the target in the water (World War II period).
View from the front, of Curtiss P-40 aircraft, from the U.S. Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group parked side-by-side with engines running on the flight line of Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. View from their rear. Next, three flights of three aircraft each are flying at low altitude, over the shore and waters of Long Island.
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