Ship building in the United States. A shipyard worker drills holes in steel plate of a ship. Another worker welds a section of steel. People gathered in large number for the launching of two ships. Charles M. Schwab of the shipping board addresses gathering of shipyard workers and guests, at the launching of a ship. (Steel titan Schwab was then the Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a Congressionally appointed board over all shipbuilding in the United States). American flags in the background. Ship is launched and moves slowly down the ways.
A U.S. Navy film titled ‘Docking and Undocking Large Flying Boats’ giving details about large flying boats in United States. A Martin XPB2M-1flying boat in water moves towards U dock for docking. Animation gives top view of a flying boat docking. U-dock shows sanders of slip which protects hull of boat. Main docking line extends from end of the slip to the boat. Inner buoy lines extend to anchor buoys and the flying boat. Outer buoy lines extend from winches to boat. Member of the crew handles lines from bow of the flying boat. Dock crewmen in a boat moving around flying boat and connect buoy lines. Officer signals for docking from dock. Dock crewmen handling lines at winches. Flying boat moves in. Tail of flying boat enters slip. Dock crewman handle lines at bow of flying boat. Crewman hooks up flying boat. Crewman releases the hook during an undocking procedure .
A report on nose-first docking of large flying boat, United States. Martin XPB2M-1flying boat moves towards a U-dock. Crewman handles lines from the flying boat. Dock crewmen in small boat connect buoy lines to tail of flying boat. Main docking line being attached to the bow of flying boat. Officer gives signal for docking from slip. Flying boat moored in. Dock crewmen handle lines. Tail-first undocking of flying boat as flying boat moves out of slip. Another method of docking being demonstrated as flying boat docks. Dock crewmen handle lines.
U.S. 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry, 1st Brigade carries out Operation Wahiawa in Cu Chi district, Saigon, Vietnam. Soldiers on patrol walk through a dense jungle. A soldier prepares to deactivate a booby trap with a hand grenade. A huge cache of Vietcong rice stacked in burlap bags. The soldiers load the rice from a hiding place in the jungle onto an M-113 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier). (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 1st Infantry Division soldiers advance through a jungle in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. M-113 APCs (Armored Personnel Carrier) with soldiers atop move out of a camp. The soldiers walk in tread marks of APCs in sand. The soldiers follow the APCs.
U.S. Task Force in Colleville-sur-Mer after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A beachhead at Omaha Beach. M5 high speed tractors tow howitzers from LSTs (Landing Ship Tank). U.S. soldiers on the beach.
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