United States Navy's dirigible Los Angeles moored to 'USS Patoka' for a test trip from Lakehurst, New Jersey to Montauk Harbor, Long Island. Dirigible Los Angeles being moored on the mast of USS Patoka in the North Atlantic Ocean. Crew members walk out of the dirigible. A United States aircraft dives.
Film opens showing the nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus (SSN 571) moving underway, on the surface, in the Thames River, near Groton, Connecticut. Several crew members stand on the boat's deck, as it heads toward the Long Island Sound. Change of scene shows a cartoon representation of a nuclear reaction occuring inside a nuclear reactor. Next, the reactor is seen enclosed in a containment with a pump attached. To this a heat exchanger is then shown in combination with the reactor and pump. Finally, the cartoon schematic includes a turbine, drive, and a propeller. An arrow points to control and fuel rods atop the reactor containment, and fuel rods descend into the reactor. The next animated illustration shows the reactor and drive assembly through a cutaway in a sketch of the Nautilus submarine.
Launch of the world's first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, at shipyard of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Connecticut. Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower breaks a bottle of champagne on the bow of USS Nautilus as a part of tradition. The submarine slides down the ways into the waters of the Thames River. A Navy CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter flies above USS Nautilus underway in Long Island Sound..
The first Albatross birds from Midway Island land in San Francisco, California after a 4000 miles flight. Two men take the birds out of a cage. A Pan American Clipper aircraft parked in the background. A man feeds the birds inside a cage at the Fleischacker Zoo.
Two police motorcycles escort a black truck carrying Martin Insull, following his deportation from Canada. The truck displays "Atlas Bro Co" across its top. (Martin is brother of the famous fugitive, Samuel Insull who fled the country following the collapse of his various utility company holding companies, most notably Middle Western Utilities.) Martin Insull is being brought to the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, to answer charges about his involvement in the matter. Scene shifts to Cook County Courthouse where Martin Insull is escorted by various officials. A group of men and women stand in the area. Some exhibit signs of distress. View from above of the Cook County jail. Smoke from stacks obscuring it somewhat. Change of scene shows heavily armed FBI agents escorting handcuffed and chained gangster George Francis Barnes aka “Machine Gun Kelly" at an American Airlines facility in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1933. They escort him past a parked airplane. Closeup of the "Lima News" of Lima, Ohio, with headline reflecting a national federal campaign against gangsters and criminals in the U.S. View of crowded courtroom. View of Alcatraz prison on its rock island in San Francisco Bay, California. Interior view of cell blocks in Alcatraz. Federal officials escorting arrested men in handcuffs who hide their faces as they approach the camera.
U.S. Marines of the 1st Tank Battalion aboard the USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) headed toward Peleliu in the Palau Islands during World War 2. Marines work on their M4A2 Sherman tanks aboard ship. They use tar and tape to seal places on the tanks as they prepare them for amphibious assault.They clean a hatch on one. A Marine points out water proofing points on tank. A slate reads "motor trouble" on September 12th. Another reads: "Passing Army Convoy." Then a long line of ships is seen on the horizon in the distance.
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