A cycling contest held at Coney Island in New York. Cyclists cheered by crowds ride bicycles on a track. Policemen try to control excited spectators. Italian rider Franco Georgetti wins the contest and holds the winner's trophy.
U.S. Task Force combat against enemy in the Pacific Theater depicts use of war bond money during World War II. Task force ships underway. A blinker signal is given from a ship. Formation of U.S. Army Air Force aircraft overhead. U.S. Navy officers discuss charts aboard a ship. U.S. sailors manning a gun. A U.S. submarine rises on water surface. Aircraft parked on the deck of a carrier. A U.S. aircraft takes off from the carrier to protect the advancing convoy. Navy guns aboard a ship are fired. U.S. aircraft peel off. Japanese bombers drop bombs on a U.S. convoy underway at sea. Ships burn after being attacked. A U.S. ship sinks. A Japanese pilot in the cockpit of a bomber. A Japanese bomber is downed by U.S. antiaircraft fire. U.S. Marines disembark from a ship and board a landing craft to assault a Japanese held island. A formation of aircraft. Marines wade ashore. The Marines advance on a beach. Japanese soldiers march on the beach. An aircraft crashes.
U.S. Army troops, task force ships and aircraft combat against the enemy in the Pacific Theater depicts use of war bond money during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force P-38 Lightening fighter aircraft in flight. U.S. Task Force ships being attacked by Japanese bombers in the Pacific Theater. U.S. troops advance on a Japanese held island. U.S. troops fire artillery guns and operate flame throwers. U.S. bomber drops bomb over Japanese ship. Japanese soldiers fire artillery guns. U.S. soldiers march. War bonds on a table.
View of Pacific island, bay, and rocky shoreline. A U.S. submarine maneuvering slowly in the bay. Surf rolling against shore. A small encampment seen on shore across inlet. Explosion occurs on nearby bluff. Three U.S. commandos emerge from foliage at shoreline. One of them cuts wires lying on shore. They move stealthily along the shore.
Glimpse of pilot and crewmember with binoculars, inside a U.S. Navy K-5 anti-submarine blimp in flight over Long Island Sound. Aerial view of the blimp, over water. View from the blimp, of a submarine moving at hight speed, partially submerged, in the water below. Later views of the submarine fully surfaced moving at low speed.
USS Nautilus (SS-168) underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. Marine Raiders of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion “Carlson’s Raiders” aboard the submarine. They stand near a deck gun. The marines do calisthenics physical fitness drills aboard the submarine. Marines stretching and raising their arms during exercise. The sub is en route to Makin island for the famous Makin Raid of August 17th and 18th, 1942.
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