Followup to the U.S. Army Air Corps 1934 Alaska Flight. The U.S. Army Air Corps Photographic department processes and assembles the 60 rolls of film shot by the USAAC 1934 Alaska Flight during its aerial photo-mapping mission over 21 thousand square miles of Alaska territory. Photographic workers mount film onto large rolls and place them into developing solutions. Long strips of film are seen drying on rotating slatted drums.Oblique negatives placed in rectifying printer are transformed into vertical photographs. Workers develop the negatives. Developed single wing photographs. Composite five lens photographs ready for mapping.
View from SS Aleutian ocean liner, of the Alaskan Steamship Line, as it approaches dock at Juneau, Alaska. Sheer mountain face overlooks the docks. Large buildings of the largest Quartz Gold mine in Alaska, are stepped down the steep slope. The ship passes a building labeled "Juneau Cold Storage."After docking, the camera pans across many people on the wharf and a building labeled The Alaska Line. Various sorts of buildings line the waterfront area.
United States Secretary of Navy John H. Chafee arrives on USS Saratoga in the United States. John H Chafee is greeted by Captain Warren H Oniel, Commanding Officer of USS Saratoga. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral David Richardson is greeted by Captain Warren H Oniel. Officials converse with each other and pose for a photograph. Dignitaries don Mae West or life jackets before boarding a U.S. Navy Kaman UH-2C Seasprite helicopter.
United States Secretary of Navy John H. Chafee on USS Saratoga in the United States. Commanding Officer of USS Saratoga Captain Warren H Oniel, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral David Richardson and another dignitary walk on the ship deck. Vice Admiral David Richardson speaks to sailors. John H Chafee dons a Mae West. He gets into a hi-line chair and is hoisted high off the deck. The Secretary of Navy is being hi-lined to a destroyer alongside USS Saratoga. A welcoming committee welcomes John H. Chafee aboard the destroyer.
The film 'The Cryptologic Officer'. An antenna in the United States. Cryptologic equipment being loaded onto ships. A worker converses with an officer. A forklift is used to lift heavy containers. Communication technicians working in a box. They operate controls. An officer directs a junior technician. Ship crew members converse with cryptologic officers. 'Guest' written on a cup. A board reads 'Operations Officer'. An officer enters a room with 'Security' written on the door. He takes a seat at a desk and goes through papers on the table. The officer observes radar screens. A board reads 'Ranger', 'Coral Sea' and 'Hancock'. A cryptologic officer briefs key members about jamming, intrusion and interception.
The film 'Devil Boats' shows the construction of Patrol Torpedo Boats in the United States. A young woman stands on a small bridge. A Patrol Torpedo Boat in the background. Two patrol boats underway at sea. Naval officers stand in a line. Workers enter the ELCO Marine Division plant. Assembly of PT boat hull and wiring. A woman worker examines wiring. One of the oldest workers, Frederick Buckley, supervises. Scenes from the Packard factory in Detroit Michigan, where the engines for the PT Boats are made. Engineers and technicians work on building a boat. Ingots thrust into ladels and poured into iron cauldrons. Drop hammer at work on hot pieces. Aluminum crank case moving on assembly line and then anodized by dipping in anodizing solution. Welders weld jackets to cylinder heads on the engine. Engine block lowered into position and joined to completed crank case. Final assembly of engine for PT boat. A woman paints yellow color on a part of the boat. After completion the Patrol Torpedo Boat is lifted by a crane. Shows Bob Palmer who used to be a factory worker and is now in the Navy in the PT service. Naval officer shakes hands with Palmer who had been painting his ID on the engine block.
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