An American football match between New York Giants and Chicago Bears at Yankee Stadium in New York. The match starts. The players play the match. A score board with the scores of the teams. The spectators in a stand cheer. The players playing the match. Harlon Hills of Chicago Bears makes a shoestring catch. The spectators cheer as the Giants win against the Bears by 17-0.
Wounded soldiers from European Theater of Operation arrive by Air Evac C-54 aircraft to LaGuardia Airport, New York, where they are greeted by families and friends during World War II. Film opens with view through main cargo door into cabin of a military C-54 transport parked on the ramp at LaGuardia Airport, New York. The cabin is configured for air evacuation. Inside, wounded American soldiers are seen in a rack of litters stacked four high. A man in civilian clothes holds a clip board and speaks to soldiers on the airport ramp. A man drives a fork lift to the cargo door and lowers two of the wounded on litters to the ground, where waiting family members reach down to kiss and embrace them. Photographers take pictures and Army officers welcome the wounded. Media technicians set up microphones near on soldier who is with a woman. They record as the woman and soldier embrace and speak to each other. After momentary break, scene shifts back to cargo door of the C-54, where several Army soldiers watch the activities below where women greeting two more wounded are being photographed and recorded as they are reunited. The next scene is in a hangar, where a wounded soldier is sitting up in his litter with wife or sweetheart beside him and a man and woman behind him. Two microphones are set up next to them. The young couple kiss and embrace. Closeup of them.
New life raft is introduced during National Boat Safety Week in New York. Two men standing on a boat. They throw a life raft bundle into the water beside the boat and it opens. The self inflating life raft is made of synthetic rubber-coated nylon and can hold 10 people and equipment. It has an integrated sun canopy. A man jumps onto the life raft and enters into the raft. Two men row life raft.
Skyline of New York from Weehawken, New Jersey. View of buildings at the port. Ferry move in the foreground. Skyscrapers seen in the far background.
A lake in Upstate New York. Man walks in a dock on the lake. Snow covers the lake shore. New York City skyscrapers at night. A ship sailing past the Statue of Liberty. Smoke rises from funnel of ship.
The U.S. Battleship USS New York (BB-34) anchored in the Hudson River, circa 1918. The Hospital ship USS Solace (AH-2) is seen in the background. A seaplane flies low over the river, past the ships. Also seen are the battleships USS Pennsylvania (BB-38 ) and USS Utah (BB-31). (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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