Cadets of U.S. Navy Aviation Academy get acquainted with catapult takeoffs and practice mock carrier landings. View from aircraft making a carrier landing. Backseat views of aircraft performing aerobatics, including slow roll, Immelman, and double snap roll. Graduation day and cadets receive their Navy Wings of Gold.
U.S. Combat Team during the war in Korea. Focus on Signal Corps and Engineer Corps activities. Soldiers observe the readings of radar mounted on a truck and talk over the radio reporting incoming mortar information, while other soldiers plot return fire to the enemy mortar positions. Signal Corps soldiers work to run communication wires using different techniques: by hand, using planes, and using mules. Soldier holds boxes of carrier pigeons and places them in the jeep. Soldier in camp writing message on paper. Soldier ties a message onto a carrier pigeon's foot and releases the pigeon to deliver the message. Pigeon in flight. Soldier at a different base removing message from foot of pigeon. Mortar team firing on enemy positions. Army engineer corps drilling through mountains, placing dynamite charges, and blasting mountains. Bulldozer making road. Trucks moving along the roads. Welder repairing a bridge. Soldiers with a mine detecting device search for land mines and disable them.
U.S. Navy bombing campaign against Japanese-held Gilbert and Marshall Islands during World War II. This film taken aboard the heavy crusier, USS Northampton, CA-26. Captain William Dwight Chandler, Jr. (1890-1977) looks out at the sea with binoculars. Officer, helmsman and another sailor on bridge of the ship (interior). Officer, wearing older-style steel helmet, looks out to sea with binoculars. Gunnery officer wearing headphones. A Curtiss SOC Seagull seaplane is seen on catapult, behind him. Carrier at some distance, as seen through railings.
U.S. Coast Guard Captain Roger C.Heimer of the Samuel Chase (APA-26), steps down to the main deck, where crewmen are assembled. They honor Captain Heimer, who will be leaving the ship in Norfolk, by presenting him with a plaque, that appears to chronicle the major campaigns in which the Chase participated. The Captain thanks them and speaks to the crew. He then climbs a ladder down the ship's side. Other officers follow him. Soon, the captain and officers are seen climbing back on the main deck, where they converse. A Consolidated PB2Y Coronado flying boat is seen flying overhead. The American flag flutters from the ship.
Troops of the U.S. 9th Armored Division are assembled at the Schlörplatz in Weiden, Bavaria, to hear from their commanding General, John W. Leonard. Some stand in tanks and other armored vehicles, while others stand at attention. Next scene shows the troops at parade rest. They face an improvised speaker stand with a color guard and the American flag and two unit flags. Behind it is the Gustav von Schlör monument. To the right, a road sign indicates 90 km to Regensburg. View shifts to show backs of the soldiers, with arms and hands in parade rest position, waiting for their Commander. Next, General Leonard is seen standing somewhat below and in front of the colors and color guards. He is in battle gear and appears very relaxed and informal, as he addresses the troops.View, from a distance, shows the large number of troops assembled and listening. More views, including some closeups, of the troops listening. Closeup of some soldiers reacting to the good news, by waving and doffing their helmets. Upon being dismissed, happy troops smile and converse as they disperse. (Note: Vehicles seen include: M16 Halftrack, M4 Sherman, and M36 Tank Destroyer)
View of U.S. Army transport ship, "El Aquario," at dockside in San Francisco, California, preparing to get underway in support of the Army Air Corp Alaska Flight Project, in 1934. Views from aboard the El Aquario, as it makes its way out of San Francisco. View from amidship, forward to the pilot house. Views of surrounding scenery as the ship makes way in protected inland waters from Seattle Washington through Vancouver, British Columbia, and Southern Alaska. View on deck as the ship rolls while underway.. View in ship's dining hall during meal as she rolls slightly (not enough to upset the dishes). An isolated waterfront house seen along the way.
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