Training flights at Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Officer trains the Naval Air Reserve airmen in a hall. They study the map on a wall. Officers arrive near airplanes parked on the airfield. They board the planes and the planes take off. Planes in formation.
Myron C Taylor on the SS Excalibur. Myron Taylor is President Roosevelt's special envoy to Pope Pius XII. He arrives home with Mrs Taylor on the SS Excalibur. Other officials on the ship. Cameramen taking photographs.
Models vying for the crown of Miss America at the Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Models walking on the ramp. People gather in the hall to watch the contest. Frances Burke from Philadelphia is crowned as Miss America.
Kids participating in boxing championship in New York. People gather to watch the boxers compete in championship. Boys of various ages vying for honors in Police Athletic League bouts at the World's fair. Boys fighting in the ring. Referee controlling them. Close up views of coaches on sidelines encouraging their boxers. View of boys watching as spectators in audience. View of young boys boxing and teenage boys boxing, including one African American boy.
The 71st Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division, New York / New Jersey National Guard arrive at a Fort Dix, N.J. for training. Guardsmen and new recruits coming out of train at railroad station. They march towards the camp. They are seen erecting tents and setting up a complete camp on the field. Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum, First Army commander, in glasses, wearing campaign hat, and Major General Clifford R. Powell, 44th Division commander, wearing garrison cap, pose in front of the Fort Dix Officers Club. Soldiers taking their belongings to the tents. KPs and mess attendant peel potatoes for a meal. One soldier sets up as a barber and shaves others. After camp is set up, some soldiers are seen resting on cots inside their tents. (World War II period).
Sightseers and several parked cars are seen on one bank of the Tacoma Narrows. They are watching undulations of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, called "Galloping Gertie" in the State of Washington, United States. Scene shifts to the bridge roadway as vibrations and oscillations increase leading to the total destruction of the the bridge. Pulsating winds blowing through the narrows caused vibrations of the bridge to reach its natural resonance frequency resulting in increased amplitude of oscillations until the structure was destroyed. Leonard Coatsworth, a Tacoma newspaper editor, is seen walking from the bridge near its end after abandoning his car, which is still on the bridge, until it collapses.
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