Soldiers in full battle dress ride in Ford Motor Company amphibious jeeps during an Army demonstration and test in World War 2. They enter a river from a park and maneuver in the water in their jeeps. Closeups of some from a bridge, as they drive under it in the water. Flotilla of jeeps maneuvering in the water. Glimpse of two soldiers standing on the bridge as a jeep passes underneath. Closeup of a jeep driving up onto a river bank.).
Soldiers in full battle dress test drive Ford Motor Company anphibious jeeps during World War 2. Film begins showing an amphibious jeep backing up in a marsh and then plunging into a river. View of two soldiers standing guard on a bridge, as several jeeps drive under it in the water. Flotilla of jeeps maneuvering in the water. Glimpse of two soldiers standing on the bridge as a jeep passes underneath. Closeup of a jeep driving up onto a river bank. Closeup of one driving past the camera. View from atop the bridge, where the two soldiers are standing. View downward from bridge as a jeep passes underneath. View from bridge as jeeps pass in both directions in the water underneath.
Numerous views of amphibious jeeps racing from land into a river in Army tests of Ford Motor Company anphibious jeeps during World War 2. The jeeps carry Army troops with full field packs. After plunging into the water, a group of the jeeps drives through the water in loose formation at a relatively slow speed. Closeups os several jeeps leaving the water and climbing a river bank.
Several Ford Motor Company GPA amphibious jeeps driven by U.S. Army soldiers, cause big splashes as they drive into a river during a demonstration and test.in World War 2. They are a sample of so-called "Seeps" or "Sea Jeeps," assembled at the company's River Rouge complex, near Detroit, Michigan, from 1942-1943. View from behind a soldier driving one of them. Various views of the Sea Jeeps navigating singly and in groups and formations in the water. The soldiers in them are dressed in battle gear with weapons and steel helmets. One by one, the Sea Jeeps are seen driving out of the river up onto the river bank. Scene shifts to an area with military trucks and other vehicles parked. Three Army soldiers on motorcycles lead a long line of Sea Jeeps filled with soldiers through that area and along a highway
Opening scene shows Henry Ford speaking at the dedication of the U.S. Navy Service School, on land of the Ford Motor Company, in Dearborn, Michigan, during World War 2. Ford says, "During this crisis, our organization wants to do everything possible to help Americans and the President." Scene shifts to the Eickes-class destroyer, USS Elliot (DD-146), steaming with black smoke billowing from her stacks. Some other unidentified ships are nearby. View of a U.S. Navy Submarine tender with several submarines on either side of her. The U.S. Submarine, USS Sturgeon (SS-187) moving slowly in very calm waters, and then with two other submarines moving together in the ocean. Closeup of submarine O-3 (SS-64) moving at periscope depth and then surfacing and later cruising on the surface with crew on deck.
A single funnel freighter, with two masts, is seen sinking from the stern, in U.S. waters, in 1919. Her aft section is already under water, with only her stern mast visible. There is no sign of life aboard the ship. Film is taken from another vessel nearby, that is rising and falling with surface waves. The sinking ship is going under rapidly, sternfirst. Next, only her bow is seen as it starts to slip beneath the surface of the water, rotating slightly to starboard, as she goes straight down, and disappears from view. (The clip is only 24 seconds long and no other information is available.)
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