A newsreel compilation of several unrelated shots. A P-40 of the 57th Fighter Group takes off from deck of the USS Ranger (CV-4). In an unrelated shot, a view looking back past tail of an aircraft after takeoff, with the USS Enterprise behind. A Douglas SBD Dauntless airplane takes off from a Yorktown class carrier. View back past its tail in a pre-war shot as an airplane leaves the Lexington behind. On Feb. 20, 1942, during World War 2, while en route to attack Rabaul,in New Guinea, the Lexington is attacked by eighteen Japanese planes. She shoots down several of them. Machine gunners firing. Bombs bursting in water near the ship. An F4F with collapsed landing gear near edge of flight deck. Black smoke rising from burning Japanese plane in water. Sky blackened with flak. Machine gun tracer bullets visible. Inserted scenes show the stern of a British carrier, and views of a bombing attack in the Mediterranean against a British Illustrious class carrier. Another inserted scene shows a lone sailor running the length of the flight deck on the USS Enterprise in the Battle of Santa Cruz. A Japanese airplane bursts into flames. Another is struck and dives trailing smoke.( An inserted view of U.S. Douglas TBD Devastators peeling off and launching torpedoes.) Douglas Dauntless aircraft recovering back on the Lexington. Flight deck full of aircraft as the Lexington makes way in the Pacific. Animated segment showing numerous drawings of aircraft carriers and airplanes headed toward Japan. (Inserted view of Four U.S. aircraft carriers, USS Lexington, USS Ranger, USS Yorktown, and USS Enterprise seen together in prewar maneuvers.)
Military Training Grounds in Montreal, Canada during World War 1. Canadian recruits, in uniform, are given realistic training in trenches similar to those in the battlefields of Europe for World War I. They crouch in trenches and fire their weapons including machine guns. Two men climb a raised platform and fire a machine gun concealed by brush. Officers stand outside a sandbagged bunker as new recruits, still in civilian clothes, follow several uniformed soldiers out of the bunker. Sign on bunker reads: "Enlist Here." Recruits in uniform, work in field digging trenches and dugouts.
A view of an P-51K Mustang of the 41st Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group on an airstrip at Clark Field in Manila, Philippines, near end of World War 2 . A pilot climbs into the cockpit of the aircraft. An airplane lands and a fuel truck drives past in the background. Mountains in the far background. The pilot starts the engine and prepares to taxi. Fuel begins to slosh and spill from his left auxiliary drop tank. It continues as he begins to taxi. A new sequence shows nose of P-51 and propeller, then switches to pilot climbing into cockpit.
Antarctic Expedition of U.S. Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Total darkness for six months on the Antarctic Pole. Two men stand in a room in the camp area named 'Little America'. One man wears a thick coat. They read the difference of the temperatures between the New York City and Little America. A difference of 168 degrees is noted between the temperatures of two places. A provision storehouse. A man walks through a corridor built of snow to the store house. He takes out a food box. Sled dogs are dressed in warm clothes. Men seated around a table and dress the dogs.
Antarctic Expedition of U.S. Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. The camp area is called as 'Little America'. Total darkness for six months on the Antarctic Pole. Light sleds being built for the polar flight. Men use equipment to build the sleds. Concentrated food pemmican being packed in measured rations for a crew of four men. The investigating parties go and explore the barrier ice. They take torches with them. Hills and bottomless chasms. The men return back to the camp area. Their coats are covered with snow. Several men seated at a table. Men read wireless messages from home. Two men sit and read news about their children.
Commissioner Henry O' Malley's inspection trip to Alaska. The Bristol Bay Salmon Fisheries. Numerous ships and fishing boats sail in the water. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Haida among the boats. The Red Salmon Canning Company's new cannery in Bristol Bay. View of the cannery's dock. Cannery buildings and docks on the Bering Sea coast.
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