Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps working on radio equipment in the United States. The exterior of a U.S. Army Signal Corps building with "Squier laboratory" written outside the building. The interior of the laboratory. Engineers conducting experiments and working on various equipment for communications, including Radar, Color Radio Telephoto, and single sideband transmission for long haul radio communication. A machine that appears to be spinning and heating hot glass. An engineer operating a machine beneath a sign that says "Thermionic Shake Tests." An engineer tests various signal lights. Signal Corps men observing a radio tower. Instructors teach and demonstrate various kinds of radio relay equipment to other Signal Corps personnel. A large board reads "Multiplex terminating." An officer explains a diagram to the Signal Corps personnel. Soldiers examine disassembled radios. Demonstration of a map being transmitted to a soldier in the field via facsimile machine. Close views of a spinning drum on the facsimile machine and the map visible on it. A dramatized shot of a B-17 bomber aircraft in flight. The pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. The pilot looks at the signals transmitted through the radar. The aircraft navigates with the radar in bad weather. A map locates Boston, Lynn, Nantasket and Quincy and it is compared to the radar image of the same region.
Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps working on the radio equipment in the United States. Long range forecast by the radar instruments. Men gather on a field testing weather analysis and automatic weather station forecasting instruments. Man seated in a large portable spinning radar device in the field. The instruments dropped by parachute send the weather observations details.
U.S. Army paratroopers are seen heading toward C-47 transport planes and boarding them for a planned post-war airborne exercise in the Philippines. A large number of C-47 transport aircraft are seen with engines running on an airfield. They begin to taxi out for takeoff. View of a C-47 plane in flight, carrying an advance trooper who parachutes out carrying a radio beacon which he is next seen setting up the "Eureka" part of Signal Corps "Rebecca/Eureka" system. Closeup of the equipment and the trooper setting it up. He assembles a long radio antenna attached to the transmitter. View of three C-47 aircraft in flight heading toward the paratrooper drop zone. Animated drawing shows how the aircraft, carrying the "Rebecca" airborne interrogators, home in on the Eureka signal from the ground. Next, paratroopers are seen exiting aircraft over the drop zone. View from another airplane of the troopers' chutes opening and them descending from the C-47s. Parachutes are silhouetted against cloudy skies. Paratroopers landing, some roughly, on the ground.
Korean junk with no sails showing, meets a U.S. submarine in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The two man crew of the junk maneuvers alongside the submarine using long poles to prevent collision. A package of food is tossed from the submarine to the Junk, which then maneuvers away from the submarine. The Junk is seen being tossed about by waves. A sailor on the submarine watches through binoculars. Sailors maneuver twin bofors antiaircraft gun on deck.
United States Navy Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287) in Apra Harbor, Guam, during World War 2. He is there to decorate the Captain and crew of the boat. Admiral Nimitz is seen at a microphone, addressing officers and sailors. Cameramen taking the photographs of the event. Navy band playing in the background. Admiral Nimitz presents the Navy Cross to Commander Alexander Kelly Tyree, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Bowfin (SS-287), on the Seventh War Patrol of that submarine during the period 25 January 1945 to 25 March 1945. Admiral Nimitz then proceeds to decorate more officers and sailors from the crew. Nimitz returns to the microphone, reads a citation, and decorates several more crew members. He and other officers hold long hand salutes as the ceremony is concluding. Admiral Nimitz then announces the end of the ceremony and walks away. Camera focuses on a sailor with medal pinned on his shirt.
U.S. submarine underway in the Pacific Ocean. A rock island in the foreground. Sailors loading 5 inches gun. Gun crew lined up on the deck of the submarine. Man on the bow of submarine trying to retrieve an object floating in water. Man securing the object with a long pole from bow of the boat. Men loading and firing 5 inches gun. Puffs of smoke from the top of the island. Firing at the island. Men aboard the submarine viewing the action with glasses. (World War II period).
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