Activities of U.S. Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. A marine fixes wounds on a Japanese prisoner. Other marines gathered around the Japanese prisoner. A tank in the background. Men advance along railroad tracks. An airplane in flight overhead. A man talks over a walkie-talkie. Men with rifles in the background. A man advances across a field. Fire and smoke rise from a hill in the background. Cliffs near Garapan. A machine gun crew keeps a lookout near the cliffs. A man talks over a walkie-talkie. A man armed with a carbine directs the troops along the railroad tracks. The marines advance along the railroad tracks. Dead Japanese at the side of the tracks.
Activities of U.S. Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. The marines move along a road. Trees on both sides of the road. A tank goes down hill on a dirt road. An ocean in the background. Smoke from an explosion in the background. Men following the tank. The marines move through a dense jungle. A man uses a flamethrower on dense undergrowth. Smoke rises. Men in a half track tank fire at the front. The half track tank in the middle of a field.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York during the Great Depression. An Eastern Airlines DC-3 passenger airplane with painted words on side "The Great Silver Fleet" taxis on a runway at Floyd Bennett Airport field by Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, New York City. Narrator describes WPA improvements to the airport. Plane parks atop a novel turntable and then is rotated to desired position. Rear hatch opens and crew member steps out. Trap door on ground near plane opens revealing a stairwell downward which debarking passengers then use to walk toward the main terminal. View of skyport landing and takeoff area on the East River and a pontoon-equipped small aircraft coming in for landing at one of these two skyports providing air taxi service from Manhattan Island. Narrator indicates that one skyport is located at 31st Street and another at Wall Street.
Recruitment of new Navy personnel in a Navy Department building in San Francisco, California. Men gather outside the building. They enter and leave the building. Sign boards outside the building read: "Let's Go Why Wait" and "Arise Americans" encouraging men to enlist in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. A board outside the entrance of the building reads: 'US Navy recruiting'. Military representative seated at a desk inside the building. New recruits gather inside the building and wait in a queue to give their applications to be recruited for posts.
US Navy ceremony handing over older submarines, early in World War 2 to the British Navy and Polish Navy, in New London, Connecticut. U.S. Navy officer reads a document as sailor stand and watch. U.S. Navy officers and sailors leave submarine and walk onto dock. British sailors take possession of the submarine. British officers conduct review of sailors on the submarine. Polish flag raised on another submarine as personnel salute. A sailor raises a ribbon flag on the conning tower. A Polish Navy sailor holds the flag of Poland on the submarine deck. An officer near a deck gun.
The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. The ship underway in the Pacific ocean. Flags flying atop flag poles on the mast of the ship. An airplane in flight overhead. A sailor stands near the controls of the ship. Other men aboard the ship. The ship convoy underway in the Pacific ocean.
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