A man and two children, an older girl and a boy, fishing on Long Island, New York during World War II. The man smokes a cigarette while a motorboat sails past.
Officer moves down a line of 6 soldiers, instructing each one to perform the long thrust attack towards him. Officer points out and corrects each trainee's mistakes. Exercise performed on a field with targets and other military training equipment in the distance.
Narrator discusses logistics of combining the long thrust bayonet attack with the withdrawal from said attack, and how to coach a group of soldiers into being fluid with the movement. This occurs over footage of an instructor demonstrating the move, first slowly and then at full speed. 6 trainees practice the moves with an instructor coaching them. First each move is done one by one, then chained together until all are performed in one fluid movement. The entire sequence is practiced two times. Final instruction given by the narrator is to practice in pairs without commands.
Two boats move in water. A U.S. Coast Guard vessel approaches a liquor smuggler's boat (during Prohibition). Sound of guns firing. U.S. Coast Guard pursuing the bootleggers running liquor. Both the boats move fast in water.
American men and women do sand-planing along the Atlantic coast in Southampton. Sand-planing is a combination of winter sledding and summer aqua-planing, with a mid sized board, reinforced with aluminum, dragged behind a jeep at 30 miles per hour. Ropes are tied to an Aluminum board at one end, and to a jeep at the other end. Jeep pulls the aluminum board on which a person stands and sand-planes. The boards in some views enter the shallows of the surf (early skim boarding or skimboard concept).
Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes and disproves a theory that a man falling 500 feet or more loses consciousness. Civilians and military spectators watch the demonstration. Views from the airplane as Sergeant Bose free-falls from 3000 feet, delaying his chute opening until 1500 feet. Some of his free fall in slow motion. He makes a routine parachute landing. Spectators and an ambulance come as a precaution to his landing point.
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