Yorkville neighborhood area of Manhattan, New York City, inhabited by Germans around the start of World War 2. Cars parked outside German shops. Traffic along the road. Pedestrians on the sidewalk. A sign reads "Cafe Hindenburg" and another sign for "Rudi's and Maxl's Brau-Haus." Another sign reads "Platzl Dance." Various German signs outside shops and restaurants in Yorkville. Sign board in front of the the "Der Entappenhase" theatre advertises information about the USS Panay sinking incident.
Remains of the Lockheed XP-38 that crashed at Mitchel Field, New York, the day before, after a cross-continental flight from March Field, California. The airplane was flown by Lieutenant Ben Kelsey, who escaped without injury. But the airplane was totally destroyed.
New York Harbor in New York, United States. Film starts showing two women on the deck of a ship using binoculars to view the traffic of ships and tugboats working in New York harbor. A variety of commercial vessels, mostly freighters are seen. One ocean liner, the General W.C. Gorgas is seen, with no visible passengers. (USS General W. C. Gorgas (ID-1365) was a a German ship seized by the US Shipping Board in World War I and used as a Navy troop ship. We see her as she departs New York on 25 April 1919 to embark Army troops and load cargo at Bordeaux, France.) Other scenes of interest include one closeup of a tugboat emitting a plume of black smoke.
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