USS Akron (ZRS-4), Navy Zeppelin dirigible in the United States. Consolidated N2Y-1 training plane, equipped for trapeze hookup, fastens to the USS Akron. It disconnects and flies away. Three planes beneath the USS Akron airship. Another N2Y-1 attempts to hook up, misses and flies off. Belly of USS Akron. One N2Y-1 hooked on and others in background. N2Y-1 hooked on, releases and flies away.
The New York Yankees train at Atlantic City New Jersey for the 1944 baseball season, during World War 2. Yankees players, wearing long sleeves, jog around the infield. Manager Joe McCarthy addresses the club. Players warm up with throwing and batting drills. Outfielder Ed Levy (#9) swings in batting cage. Second baseman Stuffy Sternweiss (#2) takes a swing. Manager McCarthy clowns around with movie camera. Action shifts to New York Giants spring training camp in Lakewood, New Jersey. Catcher Gus Mancuso takes part in camera tricks. Manager and Hall of Fame slugger Mel Ott looks over his squad. Shortshop Billy Jurges hits a ground ball. (Note: Spring training for all Major League Baseball clubs was in the north that year because of travel restrictions during World War II.)
A fire destroys arms and war materiel stores, some bound for Britain, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Waterfront fire guts granaries, warehouses and other vital property. Fire fighters fight to extinguish the fire. Fire raging from buildings. A huge crowd gathers near the fire site. The fire fighters spray water on the buildings to extinguish the fire. (World War II period).
A seaplane transported to Soviet Union. 46 ton heavy Martin seaplane ready to be loaded aboard a freighter in Jersey City, New Jersey. Plane hoisted in a sling as it is loaded on to the freighter.
Film starts showing the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm, docked at Jersey City, New Jersey, in World War 2. Some Ship's officers and crew are on deck and two armed Sailors stand on either side where the ramp meets the ship's deck. Two uniformed policeman come up the boarding ramp carrying a person on a littter. Ship's officer directs them where to take that person. Next, Japanese Nationals and Issei with their families begin boarding. Ship's officer and a sailor direct them where to go. Many boarding have small children. A ship's officer and a sailor carry another person aboard on a litter. A woman alone breezes past the guards. More families with small children board. An ambulatory, disabled , young Japanese woman is helped aboard by a man and a nurse. Two nurses help another woman board. Scene shifts to the pier where U.S. customs officials check baggage being brought aboard the ship and check identifications of passengers who will board. Next, a ship's doctor is seen attending a young girl in the ship's infirmary. He checks her vital signs. Then a Red Cross nurse enters and takes the patient's temperature and pulse rate.
Japanese Nationals and Issei, with families, arrive by bus at Jersey City, New Jersey, to board Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm for repatriation to Japan, in World War 2. View of passengers being processed at Customs area of the port. From that point, on, the file shows dozens of Japanese men, the first to board, coming up the gangplank to the ship's deck. Most of them are wearing business suits. Two armed U.S. Navy sailors guard the boarding point. Closeup of one Japanese man standing on the deck. A uniformed policemen boards, carrying a Japanese woman over his shoulder A nurse follows carrying something in her arms. She and another nurse then head toward the area where the woman had been taken. Another Japanese woman is helped aboard by two Red Cross women. Two uniformed policemen carry a passenger on a litter, aboard.
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