USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States. U.S. 14th Naval District band on one of the keys to left of the memorial. Crowd on the beach in the background. Ship's company manning rail during services. Men at quarters on board USS Buchanan. Colors at half mast on memorial. Wreaths being dropped from memorial to water by Navy and Marine personnel. Band on one key, spectators on beach in the background. Marine rifle squad on platform built over the memorial. Sailors in ranks on the deck, looking towards memorial during services. Memorial during dedication with colors at half-mast. People seated aboard the Arizona Memorial.
As film begins, U.S. Marine paratroopers are seen jumping from an R4D (Douglas DC-3) transport aircraft. View of the airplane with Marines parachuting from its cargo door. (The aircraft has "QF"and number 17225 stenciled on its tail, and United states Marines on its fuselage.) A marine descending on opened parachute is seen from below. Narrator describes them as "Pathfinders," to establish landing zones. As they hit the ground, the parachuting marines quickly set up homing devices, electronic signals and markers to guide incoming helicopters. The amphibious assault carrier, USS Princeton (LPH-5) is seen underway at sea, with her deck full of marine helicopters. She is accompanied by a transport ship. Closeups of the carrier and helicopters, from low flying helicopter overhead (unseen). Scene shifts to pilots being briefed aboard the ship. Marines in battle dress on the carrier flight deck. They double-time and board their assigned Sikorsky H-34 helicopters. View from inside a helicopter as marines board it. View from helicopter flying above those on flight deck shows those below with their engines running. Deck crew directs launching of the choppers. The H-34s are followed by Sikorsky H-56 helicopters carrying heavy equipment. Several views of them flying near the ship. Formation of helicopters in flight en route to landing areas. Helicopters heading to the beach and landing in formation. Closeup of them landing and marines moving quickly to exit and take up their positions ashore. An artillery piece suspended from a helicopter, being lowered to the ground. A number of views of marines and equipment deploying from helicopters. Scene shifts to landing craft in formation approaching the beach. Explosion occurs on shore.
A beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. People walk along the beach. A rock island in the background. Men surf on waves at sea. People on rocks along the shore.
Ford Model T cars being driven out the exit door of the Highland Park factory, Michigan,circa 1916. Numerous Model T cars driving on both sides of a divided highway. The Ford Highland Park Plant, circa 1920. Panoramic exterior views of the Ford River Rouge plant and factory buildings, circa 1930. A Ford Freighter ship, docked at the River Rouge plant. A view of the home of Henry and Clara Ford, at 66 Edison Road (now 140) Dearborn, Michigan, in 1914. Sketch of children coming home from school, singing song from McGuffey reader school book. View of schoolroom with McGuffey readers on desk. Narrator relates story of Henry Ford trying to buy a McGuffey reader and being unable to obtain one. Narrator states that Ford realizes from this incident "the changes that are reordering his culture. The modes of life which Henry so loved are passing, disappearing into history." Street scene outside Ford Plant, during shift change, and street filled with workers. A car driving on empty road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The historic Wayside Inn (immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tales of the Wayside Inn") which Henry Ford purchased in 1923, to preserve for posterity. View of the original Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City, circa 1912. View of crowded sidewalks and street on 5th Avenue, and other street scenes in New York City, circa 1920. Model T Ford cars driving in U.S. National Parks. A visitor feeding a bear from his Ford car, as a U.S. National Park Ranger stands nearby. People in Ford Model T, stopped by side of road to pick wild flowers. Two men remove a seat back from their Model T car to make a camper. Both men lying down in the car. Man carrying picnic basket from Ford Model T, parked beside a beach, where he joins the rest of his party on the sand. Children run along the beach, and stop to play with seaweed.
Children at school cafeteria lunchroom in a school. A boy selects food from the lunch line offerings and puts it on his tray. Building of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A few POV views of buildings and homes of a small town along a rural road, as seen from a moving car or vehicle. A small power plant. Sign announcing future home of Loudoun County campus of the Northern Virginia Community College. A Childrens Hospital under construction. A new campus under construction for the Mercer County Community College. A mother and baby. A newborn baby being brought to car from hospital, by a nurse. Area of heavy industry. Contaminated beach in Mendocino County California with warning sign, "Raw sewage. This beach quarantined." A working cowboy with rope lariat. A golfer on golf links. A farmer plowing behind a mule. A large piece of farm equipment in operation. A small ferry moving several cars across a river. Low aerial view of late 1960s and early 1970s cars on a network of highways.
U.S. Navy nurse recruitment promotional film. U.S. Navy nurse walking amongst patients in beds at hospital. Navy nurse talking to orderly as she prepares surgical instruments. Two nurses converse. A group of young men and women run from beach into the water at Waikiki Beach in Hawaii with Diamond Head in the background. Aerial view of Bethesda Naval Hospital complex.
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