Hurricane Doria, Beulah and Chloe in North Atlantic. Hurricane Doria lashes the eastern Seaboard. Water filled streets. People evacuate the city and drive off in cars. Hurricane Beulah plows through the Carribean and Hurricane Chloe batters North Atlantic shipping. Vehicles drive on water filled roads. Man sits outside a bar and seafood restaurant.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun's family aboard a ship underway in the North Atlantic Ocean. Men from Eva's family and others clad in white clothes come on to the deck of the ship for a Line Crossing ceremony (probably to mark crossing of the Arctic Circle). Those conducting the ceremony are dressed in costumes, some as warriors. One is dressed as King Neptune. Ceremony being performed on the deck to initiate those who are crossing the line (Arctic circle) for the first time. Officers and other passengers look on. The new initiates are subjected to many hijinks, such as mock shaving for the men. The affair is terminated as the intitiates are prodded into the swimming pool aboard the ship. Some of them are being thrown into the pool as others look on.
Anti submarine activities of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) involving forces of SACLANT. Coordination and integration between British Naval and Air Forces is mission of Headquarters, Joint Royal Navy Coastal Command. A sign reads 'Operations Room.' Inside, Royal Air Force and Navy Officers review large map displays. A lone British Avro Shackelton aircraft flies out on patrol over the Atlantic Ocean. The pilot and other crew members seated in the aircraft, wearing helmets and oxygen masks.. The crew uses devices like sonar, radar and other devices to search for submarines. They radio findings back to headquarters where it is made available to Air Force and Naval analysts.
U.S. battleship USS New Jersey (BB-16) being test bombed in the Atlantic Ocean as part of General Billy Mitchell's efforts to demonstrate the effect of air power in warfare. A close up of the USS New Jersey (BB-16). The ship begins to sink after aerial bombing. One mast falls and the U.S. battleship tilts on one side. The ship gradually submerges into water off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Allied invasion of North West Africa during World War II. Coastline of Dakar, Senegal. A harbor in Dakar with ships at th harbor. A map of North West Africa depicts the location of Dakar. Aerial views of the city of Casablanca, Morocco. A harbor in Algiers, Algeria. Ships in the harbor. A large Allied invasion convoy underway in the Atlantic Ocean as aircraft fly overhead. American soldiers aboard a troops ship. U.S. aircraft carrier underway at sea. U.S. Navy Douglas Devastator TBD-1 and Dauntless SBD-1 take off from the deck of the aircraft carrier. United States troops climb down cargo nets and onto barges. Enemy aircraft in flight as they attack the Allied ships. Smoke rises as naval guns fire at the coastline. U.S. soldiers land on the shore and get off barges.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercise, Operation Strikeback, in the Atlantic Ocean. A submarine underway at high speed on surface, creating heavy wake. Regulus missile in flight over water. British aircraft in flight. Aircraft carrier, USS Forrestal (CVA -59) underway. Aerial view of aircraft on the flight deck of the carrier. Douglas A-3 Skywarrior aircraft landing on the flight deck. Atomic bomb explosion.
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