After extensive slate of historical information, this film shows U.S. Coast Guard personnel launching a large dory (life boat) from the U.S. Coast Guard Gloucester Station in Gloucester, Massachusetts (Old House Cove, westerly side Gloucester Harbor). They slide the boat down rails, launching it directly into the water. Coast Guardsmen in foul weather gear are seen rowing a large lifeboat in rough waters near rocky shores. Eight men row, sitting in four pairs side-by-side on fixed thwarts (benches) and one stands in the stern (a coxwain) steering with a 16’ oar. A powered life boat is seen briefly, in extremely rough waters. Remainder of the film shows an animated map of the East and South coasts of the United States with dots identifying Coast Guard Stations on those coasts. At this point, the film concentrates on Rescue Stations in the Boston Division. A beached two-masted sailing ship is shown. A large steamship emitting black smoke from her funnel, is seen beached and listing on a shore. Aerial view of Light House on Block Island, off Rhode Island. Aerial view of a freighter run aground just off shore. Aerial view of a Coast Guard Station with a highway running past it. Aerial view of another Coast Guard Station located where narrator says is a dangerous point.
A film titled 'Campaign in Sicily' on the campaign of Allied forces to invade Sicily, Italy during World War II (Operation Husky). Animated map shows the target area of the Allies. British Army General Alan Gordon Cunningham, U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder , British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, U.S. Army General George Smith Patton and United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant General James Harold Doolittle plan and discuss during the campaign. Lt. Gen. Doolittle and some officers stand near an airplane. U.S. airplanes bomb Pantelleria. Aircraft in formation flight over the target area and drop bombs. British infantry goes ashore. Masses of Italian prisoners of war march along. Rubbled buildings in the area. Axis airplanes bomb an Allied supply ship off an island. British engineers repair an airstrip on the island. Allied bombers strike target areas in Italy. Troops transports assemble in a harbor at Alexandria, Egypt. Ships being loaded at the harbor. Generals Eisenhower and Patton aboard USS Monrovia. Ships underway at sea. U.S. Navy sailors receive a briefing over a large table map conducted by U.S. Navy officers. Animated map shows target areas and Allied strategies and invaded areas. Allied troops, following a night naval bombardment, land in Sicily using amphibious vehicles and floating causeways. Landing ships are unloaded. Steel mash mats are laid down. Bulldozers are taken ashore. General Patton and 3rd Infantry Division units land. Axis airplanes attack the convoy. They drop bombs over target areas. An ammunition ship is exploded. Heavy columns of smoke rise as ships and landing craft explode. Soldiers advance along a town. Artillery and tanks advance along. Wrecked airplanes and equipment in the area. Dead bodies of soldiers on the ground. A medic treats a wounded. Aircraft in flight overhead. Officers in the balcony of a building. People gather outside the building. Animated map invasion by Allied forces. Prisoners of war are marched along a field. Soldiers advance.
Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. A small group of personnel watches the recovery of an aircraft. An A-7A aircraft comes to a halt on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. The aircraft taxis on the flight deck. A tractor in the right foreground. An A-7A aircraft making a recovery, rolls to a stop. A wire is released from a tail hook. The aircraft taxis out. Ready bomb stowage area behind the island, a large amount of bombs secured to the bomb carts. Personnel working in the far background. Ordnance personnel working around the bomb fuse carts. An ordnance man holds a bomb fuse in his hand. Ready bomb stowage area behind the island. Ordnance personnel working in the background. Bombs and bomb fuses in the foreground. An ordnance man works with a hand full of safety wires attaching them to a fuse cart. The ordnance man wheels a fuse cart down the deck area. Personnel standing between the aircraft. The ordnance man wheels the cart down the deck toward the A-7A, stops at the A-7A. An ordnance man attaches two fuses to two separate bombs. A fuse being screwed on the nose of a bomb by the ordnance man. The ordnance man attaches the safety wire. A clip being put on the safety wire of the bomb. An ordnance man works with the safety wire on the bomb attached to the A-7A. United States Navy F-4J Phantom II and U.S. Navy A-6A Intruder in the background on the flight deck.
Activities aboard USS Randolph (CV-15). Ordnance man works on torpedo attached to side of SH-3A helicopter. Ordnance man secures depth bomb to helicopter. Tow tractor moves over flight deck next to island. Another tractor comes from left towing an S2F (aka ""Stoof" by sailors). This plane is from squadron VS-27. Side view of the aircraft with name 'USS Randolph' on engine nacelle. Ship's island in the background. Tractor tows another S2F on flight deck. SH-3A helicopters in the background.
L-5 sentinel planes over jungle in Palawan, Philippines. Aerial view of mountains. An island as seen from L-5. Shoreline and clouds seen from plane. Islands below the L-5 in flight.
Views from one of two U.S. Navy Class C airships in flight over Bedloe's Island, New York City. Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island. Airships pass over the Statue of Liberty.
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