A forest service worker cuts and marks a tree for logging operations in Arizona, United States. Loggers cut down a large pine tree with a two man saw. The logs are loaded on a truck by heavy equipment loader. The logs are pushed off the back of the truck by a bulldozer. The logs are loaded in a train. Smoke rises from the locomotive engine of the train as it moves carrying large cut trees. Mountains in the background. A sawmill operation in Flagstaff, Arizona. Logs are brought to sawmills and dumped into a giant pool or pond area. Men with hooks move the logs up onto lifts that carry the logs into the saw mill. Men at the mill output side lift cut lumber off of the running belt track and stack it for pickup by a special lift machine that lifts the lumber bundles. Elevated view from a high ridge of the city of Flagstaff, Arizona. A woman and a child walk on a field with the mountains of the San Francisco Peaks rising in the background.
United States task force under Japanese air attack in the Pacific Theater.Their primary target is a U.S. Aircraft Carrier. A lone sailor seen running along the flight deck. Japanese aircraft in the sky. Antiaircraft fire from the Carrier and other U.S. ships fills sky with black puffs of smoke. Two Japanese planes are shot down and crash in water. The Carrier experiences several near-miss bomb explosions. Smoke arises due to the firing. Douglas Dauntless bombers seen on deck of carrier. Other ships in the background. A U.S. Navy F4F fighter crash lands on the carrier deck and crewmen attempt to clear it away under fire from Japanese aircraft. Near miss bombs cause Carrier to rock so much that aircraft on the deck gets shaken off. A Douglas Dauntless aircraft takes off from the carrier to engage the Japanese. (World War II period).
United States submarine sinks Japanese boat in the Pacific. Submarine bombards the boat. The boat catches fire. Smoke arises due to the fire on the boat. (World War II period).
U.S. Navy hospital ship USS Tranquility carries USS Indianapolis survivors at sea, following the Indianapolis' sinking by Japanese torpedo attack. The ship moored alongside dock. The ship enters Apra Harbor at Guam. Long line of ambulances waits on the dock. Fantail and midships of tranquility alongside dock. Ambulatory causalities from USS Indianapolis line rails. Ramp runs from gangway to platform on dock foe discharge of causalities from ship. Ambulatory causalities file down gangway ladder to ambulances on dock. Stern of the Tranquility with its name written on it. United States flag flying from staff. General activities on dock as men take the survivors on stretchers to ambulances. Gangway ladder as ambulatory causalities descend to dock.
Supply convoy reaches Quemoy in China despite the communist Chinese blockade, during Cold War. Ships carry the supplies at sea. Men on landing craft at the sea. Men on deck. President Chiang Kai Shek arrives at a press conference in Formosa. He opposes reduction of garrisons on the off-shore islands. Mainland China rebuffs United States peace bids with an enormous Chinese propaganda demonstration in Peiping (Beijing) on the grounds of the old Imperial Palace. Communist Chinese demonstrate with boards, placards and flags in hand. A huge crowd gathers at the palace grounds and decries what it calls American aggression in the Taiwan strait. President Zhou Enlai addresses the massive crowd.
1959 regular season college football game between teams of Purdue and Notre Dame at Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Game in progress. A large crowd gathers to watch the game. Fans in stands cheer and applaud. Boiler Makers defeat Notre Dame with a final scores of 28-7.
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