A 100 mile car race held in Bridgehampton, Long Island. People gather to watch the race. Cars line up on the race track. Participants get inside the cars. A man gives signal to start the race. Spectators watch the event. Tommy Cole of London wins the race.
A British Lion-Class Battle Cruiser (either HMS Lion or her sister ship, HMS Princess Royal) at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands with several utility boats along her port side. Smoke issuing from one of her stacks. Several views of her 13.5-inch forward guns in twin turrets. The guns are maneuvered in various ways. (Momentary view of a sailor straddling one of the barrels.) view from an aircraft, of the Battle Cruiser underway. Scene shifts to anchored ship with torpedo nets deployed and tended by two motor launches. (Guns are visible on the ship.) Scene shifts back to closeups of 13.5-inch guns on battle cruiser. Next, several minesweepers are seen moving in parallel courses across the water. Final scene shows what might be the USS Arkansas (BB-33) which was part of American Battleship Division Nine with the British Grand Fleet in World War 1. Other warships of the Grand Fleet in background. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
War Correspondents on Saipan, Marianas Islands during World War II. Interior of war correspondent's quarters. Correspondents typing documents and playing cards. Some correspondents rest on their cots.
Marines sit in bomb crater on island. Smoke in the background. Marines fire machine gun at Japanese position, and into a dead Japanese soldier. Burning building. Marines fire machine guns between sandbags. Burned body of dead Japanese soldier. Marines march along roadway. Palm trees on beach. Small craft on beach, tide is out. Japanese torpedoes on dollies on beach. (World War II period).
American flag raised on Tarawa Island, Pacific Ocean. Marine holds flag and other marines watch. Marine bugler sounds call as flag is raised. Marine enlisted men and officer salute as the flag is raised. American flag hoisted up palm tree. Marines salute the flag. Marine General Smith and staff salute at flag-raising.
The USS Honolulu (CL-48) underway at a sea around Kolombangara Island. Sailors rest on the deck of the ship. Curtiss SOC-3 Seagull aircraft catapulted from the USS Honolulu (CL-48). Gunner in cockpit of SOC-3. A ship in background.
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