Hitchcock scores seven goals in Meadow Brook Polo. He leads his Sands Point team to 14-10 victory over Greentree Four. Polo player Tommy Hitchcock talks with his buddy nearby tents. Match is played between teams. Hitchcock scores a goal in end.
Motion pictures of skyscraper buildings on Manhattan as photographed from a U.S. Navy C-class airship. Also seen is a sister C-class Navy airship in flight above New York Bay, with several ships underway below it. Views of the Woolworth Building (233 Broadway, New York, NY 10007, United States) from the Navy airship.
Philippines Campaign in Philippines during World War II. The U.S. invasion fleet underway at sea. The fleet shells the beach of Leyte. Smoke rising from the shelling. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Mitscher views the shelling. U.S. battleships in view. General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Mitscher talking to each other. Smoke rises from the areas along the beach. Infantry aboard landing crafts reach the Leyte beach. The troops disembark the crafts and move towards the beach. The soldiers take their position. The soldiers with guns in prone position under cover of bushes. The soldiers advance among the trees in the beach.
United States Navy loads war materiel aboard an LST,in the Pacific theater, during World War II. A four wheeled trailer, artillery and equipment hoisted by a crane aboard an LST(Landing Ship Tank) at the loading dock. Artillery gun raised at the dock as men assist. A soldier stands on a ship and watches the dock area. An operator in the control room of a ship. Other ships and group of marines on the deck.
United States Marines in the Philippines during World War II. Marines advance down a small dusty road. United States flag flies after the marines capture the area. Smoke rises in the background. Several marines around a light tank. A photographer with his camera and a reporter with his portable typewriter, during a combat break. Marines in the background. The reporter types a dispatch. The photographer smokes a cigarette and cleans a lens on his camera.
Armed U.S. Marines exit from heavily sandbagged barracks to a waiting truck containing a pair of Browning M1919 .30 caliber medium machine guns on a Scarff Gun-Ring Mount. A Lewis gun is fastened to the inside of the truck. As they emerge, some look to the sky, while the rest board the truck. One sets up a radio on the pavement and another looks through binoculars. Two officers unfold a rolled up map and one salutes and runs to the cab of the truck, while the other crouches with the radio operator. The event is repeated in a second take, filmed at a slightly closer distance. Next is a closeup of Marines in the truck pointing their weapons skyward as the truck pulls away. Closeup of heavily sandbagged entrance of building as Marines exit in another repeat of the event. Repeat of the two officers (both Lieutenants) and the radio operator pointing at a spot on the map. In final scenes, several Marines are seen silhouetted against the sky as one rotates the Browning machine gun on its Scarff mount.
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