Coast Guard trainees learn rifle shooting at Fort Trumbell, Connecticut. Men practice firing rifles and other small arms.
Wiley Post hands a can of exposed film to a Pathe News representative while standing in front of his Winnie Mae airplane. Closeup of Pathe News logo with the words 'Winnie Mae Round the World Filght' on Wiley Post's airplane. Wiley Post waves to camera as he enters his plane. Wiley Post wears an early pressure suit fitted with a metal helmet.
Presidential train parked in a train station at a city in Pennsylvania,during President Roosevelt's reelection campaign in 1940. It is surrounded by a phalanx of officials and police. View from rear of the train reveals a huge crowd jamming the train station, outside. A banner reads: "Lavery for Congress,"and another announces AFL support 500,000 strong for Franklin D. Roosevelt. The President speaks from the train's rear platform, and waves as the train pulls out of the station. Interesting side profile view of the President waving to the crowd as his railroad train car starts moving away.
CINCPAC ( Commander in Chief, Pacific Command ) change of command aboard USS Ranger at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States. Marines load saluting batteries at the end of a pier. USS Ranger in the background. An officer gives a signal to fire a 17 gun salute. A lanyard being pulled. The saluting battery is fired. A hot shell is removed. A Marine officer gives an order to fire the saluting battery, he drops his hand.
CINCPAC ( Commander in Chief, Pacific Command ) change of command aboard USS Ranger at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States. USS Ranger at a dock. A U.S. Navy Sikorsky SH-34G helicopter takes off from the ship. The helicopter in flight overhead. Guests arrive at the side of USS Ranger. American actor Kirk Douglas is greeted as he arrives at the side of USS Ranger. Former Under-Secretary of the Navy Paul "Red" Burgess Fay, Jr arrives. United States Marine Corps General Wallace Martin Greene, Jr arrives. Governor of Hawaii John Anthony Burns also arrives. He walks towards the brow. Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command Admiral Harry D. Felt arrives. He steps out of a limousine with Mrs Felt. Admiral U.S.G. Sharp debark from the limousine after his arrival. Admiral Felt walks through the rank of sideboys with his flag under his arm. He goes up to the flight deck level in an elevator with his wife.
Carpenter -Whitney expedition in Alaska, United States. Ptarmigan birds as they change their brown spring plumage to white winter ones in Alaska, United States. Ptarmigan move about with branches of trees in the foreground.
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