Annual battle with paper bag 'grenades' and ripe tomatoes at Long Island University. Flour seen rising in the air. Freshmen tear shirts and snatch pants during hazing ritual.
Local Pacific Islanders are seen in wooden dugout boats in the vicinity of U.S. Navy warships, in a bay during World War 2. Closeup of a man in one canoe with an outrigger. A boy sitting in one carrying a box of fruit. U.S. military engineers aboard a ship, look at shore with binoculars. Sailors in stern of a boat flying Naval ensign. Sailors on a barge, transport the fuselage and float of a OS2U Kingfisher Floatplane to an island, where they bring it ashore amidst grove of palm trees. Sailors roll 55gallon drums of fuel shore from a barge. A jeep is lowered over the side of a ship and driven ashore. Supplies, including foodstuffs, are brought ashore. Cartons containing canned corned beef; canned cherries, and many other foods, are stacked up in a warehouse. Engineers chart water depth in a bay as they mark boundaries for construction of a seaplane base. Caterpillar tractors level trees and clear land for the base. Soldiers install a 155mm long tom gun in position for coastal defense. Marines prepare temporary shelters of palm fronds. A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina seaplane flies overhead.
Newsreel 'Fashion parade'. Italian women wearing vintage Flapper girl dresses and long gloves. Women twirl as they enter a room. Models parade in elegant Rome saloons in the latest designs of Italian fashion designers. A model shows off her balloon dress. Stylish evening gowns with balloon skirts are given more emphasis.
A group of children sit and eat with a four year old chimpanzee at his birthday party. The chimpanzee wears clothes and a chain. It drinks milk from a huge bottle. The party ends up with a roller skating round of fun, for the chimpanzee and the children. The chimpanzee uses his long hands while skating and makes funny faces.
German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf-110 twin engine heavy fighter aircraft in flight during World War II. The plane flies low over field and attacks aircraft on the ground with cannon fire. Gun camera footage and point of view from inside Bf-110 aircraft during attack. Aerial view of Bf-110 in formation. Next scene shows close up aerial views of a formation of German Junkers Ju 86 bombers in flight. A pilot seen in the cockpit. Fire and smoke seen. Squadron of Ju 86 in formation, returning from a mission. At the German home base, A Junkers JU-52 is forced to make a landing on one wheel when the other seems to be lost due to enemy fire or accident. The pilot skillfully keeps the aircraft rolling on the one good wheel as long as possible, and then it falls and spins to the side. The crew evacuates and no one is injured, although the aircraft is seriously damaged. The Luftwaffe crew looks over the damage.
Stark battle landscape during battle of Eniwetok. U.S. forces taking cover as Japanese resistance continues. Dead Japanese soldier on the battlefield. Burned body of a dead Japanese soldier half emerged from a fox hole. U.S. marines attack Japanese in a cave entrance with hand grenades. Flamethrowers project a long stream of fire. Fire and smoke seen. A marine walks to a motionless Japanese soldier, pokes at him with rifle, then shoots him. U.S. Marines carry wounded down the beach in Eniwetok Island.
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