As film begins, two U.S. B-24 bombers are seen taxiing across the Adak airfield to takeoff on a bombing run against the Japanese airfield at Kiska Island. Closeup of B-24 with engines running. About an inch of water covers the ramp. The two bombers take off (followed by others unseen). Airmen on the ground watch them depart. Scene shifts to the port of Adak. A cargo ship and a tugboat moving a barge are seen in the water. Trucks drive along the beachfront. Mountains loom in the background. Military supplies, including munitions are seen piled along the beach. Soldiers carry some goods over their shoulders. Closeup of items piled on the beach. A dog trots along with soldiers walking the beach. Change of scene highlights guns installed as coastal defense on the island, including fixed heavy guns, anti-aircraft guns and machine guns. A sailor viewed through a life safer buoy, paints part of a warship. A Navy PBY Catalina on patrol is seen overhead. U.S. gunboats patrol the harbor. Crew members are seen aboard a U.S. destroyer patrolling deep waters off Adak. They exchange blinker light messages with a Bancroft-class (four-stacker) destroyer. Glimpse of the Bancroft-class destroyer flashing blinkers lights. Sailors on a destroyer respond to alarm of sonar sound contacts and man battle stations. Closeup of a Bancroft-class destroyer, followed by views of depth charges being launched from a destroyer underway. Exchanges of blinker light messages between camera destroyer and a Bancroft-class destroyer.
Capabilities of U.S. amphibious vehicles carried by landing ships, United States. LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel-5) moves up a beach. LVTP-5 leaves beach and goes in surf. LVTA-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Armored-5) moves up on a beach. LVTA-5 equipped with a howitzer.
View from cockpit of a U.S. Navy PBY airplane circling to land at the Naval Air Station Kanoehe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii. View from the land, as PBY taxis in toward beach after landing. A man stands by a white flag at beach front to guide the seaplane. A crewman seated on the wing of the seaplane. A man swims out to the PBY, as it approaches the beach. Several flights of Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft fly overhead in formation.
U.S. Navy and Marines engaged in live fire amphibious assault exercise. Explosions on beach as Navy and Marine aircraft fly overhead and a wave of landing craft carrying marines approaches. Next, the landing craft arrive at the beach and marines storm ashore and proceed over hills and rough terrain toward their objective. Numerous views of Marines charging over sand berms. Armor and vehicles being driven from landing craft through the surf. An M48 Patton tank comes ashore through the surf and drives toward the camera and then very close past it. tankers in top and forward hatches are seen. As it passes, a pair of wading vents can be seen on its rear deck. Closeup of its treads. Several tracked landing vehicles drive in a line along the edge of the beach. Closeups of some. Marine riflemen charging across the terrain. Fires burning. explosions occuring beside Marines running from their landing craft. Marines charging from parked helicopter as explosions occur nearby.
The United States Army Quartermaster Corps in the United States during World War 2. Supplies for the Quartermaster Corps like boots, dresses, cigarettes and hardware. A tent encampment. A soldier standing in a wooded region. An officer seated at a table in an office. The flag with the Quartermaster Corps insignia flutters from a pole. Point of view shot at nearly eye level with large column of U.S. Army soldiers marching toward camera position, holding rifles as they march in formation. The soldiers eat seated at tables in a dining hall or mess area. The Quartermaster Corps unload boxes of supplies during a war overseas. A number of boxes of supplies on a beach. Several Quartermaster Corps unloading boxes from landing crafts on the beach. View of a pair of boots which is part of the necessary uniform equipment. A large number of cabbages in a heap. Pieces of hardware hung on stands on a wall. The boxes of supplies are stacked in a store before distribution. The corps distributed uniforms. United States Army Soldiers on tanks moving on a path. The soldiers arrive at landing crafts on a beach. Large columns of U.S. Army soldiers march in formation. Women's Army Corps (WAC) and nurses move in formation. Women working in textile webbing factory with large spools of webbing or string during manufacture process. The soldiers march. Ships in a harbor. Supplies at a dock for army and navy requirements.
New world speed records being set in the United States in 1933. People push race car on Daytona Beach. Sir Malcolm Campbell, a racing motorist drives his "Blue Bird" race car at Daytona Beach, Florida, setting a new speed record. Spectators stand at beach as they watch him. Campbell seated in his racing car as he smokes after the run. People stand around him. Garfield 'Gar' Arthur Wood, a racer using a racing boat named "Miss America X" sets a new world record to win Harmsworth Trophy for his speed run on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. View of Gar Wood smiling. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years prior.
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