Final stages of the Battle of Saipan in the Mariana Islands during World War II. U.S. carrier-based airplanes land at and are refueled at a captured airfield renamed as Conroy Airfield. Bombers and fighters take off to bomb Japanese positions on the northern tip of Saipan. Smoke billows up from a Japanese ammunition dump by U.S. bombings. U.S. Marine Commander Carlson confers with an officer. Marines and tanks advance. Mortars are fired at Japanese pillboxes and caves on a hill. Smoke billows up from the hillside. The marines continue advancing. Animated map connects Saipan with Tokyo and the Philippines. The marines after the capture of Saipan.
A training film based on oceanographic study in the Atlantic Ocean. Water crashes over bow area of a U.S. Coast Guard ship underway. Bow of ship dips down in rough seas. Rough sea as seen from deck of ship. Tremendous whitecaps and high seas. View of sea and forecastle of ship from bridge. Stormy sea and dark sky overhead. A merchant ship is towed by Coast Guard ship underway. Merchant ship underway. Coast Guard officers on wing of bridge in ship.
A training film based on oceanographic study showing Atlantis-11 ship going underway in the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. flag flies from stern of a Coast Guard ship which is secured to dock. Many craft tied up in the background. Two technicians look over an item on electronic panel. Laboratory technician performs oxygen analysis. Small flask is partly filled with liquid from a glass tube on a bench. Crowd on dock area and aboard U.S. navy oceanographic research ship Atlantis 11. Brow pulled inboard on Atlantis 11 from dock. Two men on fantail of ship on right and crewmen on forecastle of cutter in left. Atlantis 11 pulls away from crowded dock. Crowd on dock waving. Atlantis 11 underway in mid-stream.
October 29, 1954, General Maxwell B. Taylor, Commander of the U.S. 8th Army, in Korea, escorts a South Korean diplomat up the stairs to a reviewing stand. A color guard is seen and then a view of the Korean representative, General Taylor, and Major General Charles D.W. Canham, Commander of the Third U.S. Infantry Division, saluting as soldiers of the 3rd Division begin marching in review. Camera focuses on the seated Army band, playing for the marchers. Soldiers of the 3rd Division are seen passing behind the band, carrying their Duffel bags and other belongings on their way to board the U.S. Navy transport ship USS General M. B. Stewart (AP-140) which would take them home to the USA. The next scene shows 3rd Division soldiers leaving the the USS M.B. Stewart at New Orleans, Louisiana. A huge banner hangs on a port building welcoming the Division. American troops with massed flags stand with Audie Murphy, on a bunting covered porch to welcome the returning 3rd Division troops. An Army marching band plays as they parade across the dock. Several motorcycle policemen lead a parade or the returning troops along the streets of New Orleans. Scene shifts to Master Sergeant Queen at the filming location for the Army production, "The Big Picture." Audie Murphy is with him, and praises the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, noting that he had served as one of its soldiers.
A mid air recovery of a space capsule from an orbit over the Pacific Ocean. Aircraft in flight over the Pacific Ocean. They snare the descending Discoverer XIV capsule while in flight. Men watch the event.
The Battleship, USS Colorado (BB-45) underway in the channel entering Pearl Harbor Naval Station, Hawaii. Sailors in white uniforms line the rails. A Vought OS2U Kingfisher scout plane can be seen high on aft deck, above gun turret. A group of Naval personnel stand on a platform at Berth F-12A, waiting for the the ship. USS Colorado rotates with help from tugboats and moves forward into the berth.
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