A football match between the Notre Dame Irish and the Purdue Boilermakers in South Bend, Indiana. The stadium on game day. Students stand and form the word 'Irish'. Spectators watch a game and cheer the players. The game in progress. The numbers on the field indicate the number of yards to the nearest end zone. Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour team up in a great passing combination for three touchdowns. The Irish of Notre Dame score 26 and the Purdue Boilermakers score 14. The Irish win the game.
Launching of first liquid fuel rocket on a Staten Island New York beach in 1933. U.S. rocket experimenters including George Edward Pendray launch the first liquid fuel missile. They prepare for launching of the rocket and fill fuel of rocket which is powered with gasoline and liquid oxygen. Missile being launched and its fuel tank explodes due to over heating. Rocket crashes down on beach. Experimenters stand with pieces of the broken rocket. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Film opens showing American soldiers riding in an open tracked personnel carrier, along a road in France, during World War 2. They pass a burning destroyed German tank at the roadside. A U.S. Army truck full of troops and a jeep follow the personnel carrier. Next dragon's teeth tank traps are seen in the snow. A U.S. M10 tank destroyer and a truck are parked near the dragon's teeth. A gunner atop the M10 fires his M2 Browning heavy machine gun. The M10 continues to move past the dragon's teeth. Infantry are seen accompanied by a whitewashed M4A3(76) Sherman tank. Other troops are settled into positions in the snow beside the narrow road. View from behind advancing troops. Explosions in a hillside as shells strike from an M4A3(105) firing rounds. White smoke rising from phosphorous shells fired into a German village. An M4A3(76) tank firing rounds in the village. Sherman medium tanks moving through rubble and then on a town street. Two M4A3(75) tanks parked side-by-side in the town. Tank commander in one points down the street, as hatch in the nearest one begins to open. U.S. infantry moving through the town accompanied by these tanks. Armored infantry hunker down behind a tank as it passes a church building. Some soldiers scamper down a hill toward village wooden buildings. Two are seen escorting a German prisoner, who collapses and has to be helped to his feet. Three other U.S. soldiers are approached by a surrendering German soldier with his hands in the air. Next American soldiers are seen taking several surrendering German soldiers into custody.
A novel method to pay fines in food to aid the needy (during the Great Depression). inaugurated by the Mayor of Marion, Indiana, Jack Edwards. A policeman of Marion stops a motorist who has broken a law and talks to him. The police officer checks documents. A court building. The interiors of the building shows the Court in session. A lawyer questions the motor vehicle law breaker. The man is told to pay a fine in quantities of staple groceries, vegetables and meat, equivalent to dollars. The man presents the goods and brings in a live chicken as part of it, which he puts on a table in the court room. An official acknowledges his payment, encourages him to be safe, and tells him he is free to go.
Sheep run in stockyard, Chicago, Illinois. A large flock of sheep run down a ramp to the stockyard slaughter pens.
Submarine crew training at the U.S. Naval Fleet Training Center in Charleston, South Carolina. In a submarine simulator, crew members practice work at various operating stations. The lighting is dimmed. Naval Commander, manning periscope, calls out observations and readings, as he rotates it. Crew members at large panel wear headsets and make observations. Commander closes and lowers periscope.
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