U.S. Navy PBY Catalina at a beach in the United States. Air crewmen standing in front of the U.S. Navy PBY Catalina. PBY going down a sea plane ramp. The airplane taxiing in water. PBY in flight overhead.
Activities of the U.S. Navy personnel in the United States during the Battle of Midway of World war II. U.S. Navy PBY Catalina airplane parked at a beach. Crewmen working on the airplane. Bombs loaded under the wing section. Cockpit of the airplane. Man seated in the airplane while in flight. An officer saluting. Three airplanes flying in formation.
Film 'Emergency Conservation Work' shows development of the National Parks system in the United States. Images from early 1930s in the United States with idle and quiet factories, mills, and smokestacks due to unemployment and Great Depression. Factory with a board that reads 'Closed' on it. Unemployed workers stand in line at the gates of the General Employment Agency and gather around bulletin boards at the agency. Young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at a meal with heads bowed in prayer, and then standing in a line at the start of a work day. CCC workers digging in a field. Several sign boards seen including: Edisto State Park developed by U.S. department of Interior; CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camps SP-3 Poinsett Co. 421; Myrtle Beach State Park Emergency Conservation Work; Co. 262 CCC Camp Florida SP-3; Old Lodge Camp SP-15.
A U.S. Marine Corps Reconnaissance Team begins a field training exercise, after having landed from a submarine and changed into their camouflage fatigues. They patrol through small trees and underbrush. A Grumman S2F aircraft lands on a small airstrip, and the recon team emerges from the woods to board it for flight back to their base. A formation of marines with field gear, starts to move double-time along a dirt path. A formation of Sikorsky H-34 helicopters seen flying low over plumes of black smoke rising. Marines, in amphibious assault training operation, approach surf in Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs). They run from the LVTs as they hit the beach. Marine infantry and M48 Patton tanks during actual combat (or realistic training exercise), with large plumes of black smoke rising in various locations.
Women display wooden bathing suits in Hoquaim, Washington. Three women wearing swimsuits cut thin strips of wood. They put thin pieces of these strips on their swimsuits. Women wearing wooden swimsuits get into water at the beach. They display their swimsuits.
Engine failure forces a YB-10, of the 1934 U.S. Army Alaska Flight,to make a forced landing in Cook Inlet, two miles from Anchorage. View of the B-10 partly submerged in the water as men approach it in a small boat. The number 145 seen on the tail sticking out of the water. Boats moving near the stricken airplane and men wading in the water to assess ways of salvaging it. The aircraft on the beach after being pulled from the water. Men gathered around it starting repairs. A crane lifts a damaged propeller from the plane. Next, the crane lifts the right engine from the plane. View of the large crane with the engine suspended. A crewman walking under the nose of the repaired airplane. Another tapping a repair with a hammer.
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