Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents undergo their training in the United States. A field training for the agents. They fire rifles at target boards. The training continues in night. The agents fire rifles and hit the target boards at night. FBI Director John Edgar Hoover addresses the nation and talks about the goal of eradication of crime from the country.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. Paintings of the founders of the U.S. Navy like John Paul Jones. Merchant ships underway at sea. Men work on a ship. Men standing on the deck of the ship. A map locates places. Dramatizations of sailing ships in combat against pirates in the Atlantic Ocean. They fought against the pirates during the Revolutionary War and in the war of 1812. Men fire deck guns from a ship. Smoke arises due to the firing. People lined up outside a building. Officials seated inside a building.
Led by U.S. soldiers in a jeep, a group of civilians with hands on their heads (German civilians being expelled from Czechoslovia or possibly also Czechs accused of collaboration with Germany) are marched under guard by Czech partisans,along a wide cobblestone street in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. View from above in building across the street, as American soldiers escort high-ranking German officers from their headquarters, into a waiting halftrack. Several Czech civilians taken prisoner by a Czech woman carrying a pistol. view from a building on Klatovska street, of American flag flying next door, and American troops in a line of halftracks on the street below. view up the street towards Masaryk square, shows Czech flag flying above the American flag on next-door building. Twin Spires of the neo-romanesque church of St.John Nepomuk on Chodske square in distance.
Segments of film, shot under direction of John Ford,for documentary on Battle of Midway in World War 2. Two U.S. Navy F4F-4s take off successively from deck of an aircraft carrier. A Douglas Dauntless (SBD-3) takes off. Man in steel helmet strains to look directly overhead through binoculars, as a flight of five Japanese zeros peels off overhead and dives. One is seen releasing a bomb. The Five aircraft fly away in trail formation and then reappear flying toward the camera and dropping bombs. Flak clouds hang low in the air. Objects stike the water with splashes. Antiaircraft fire, with tracers visible, is directed at low flying airplane. Two Japanese zero fighters zoom low toward the camera and pull out overhead. A flight of three Douglas Dauntless aircraft in formation.
Color footage shot during WWII under the direction of John Ford for his documentary on the Battle of Midway. United States aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy F4F-4 Wildcat aircraft taking off from the flight deck. Other F4Fs warming up in the background. Men aboard the aircraft carrier. Douglas TBDs and SBDs flying low over water, simulating attacks on Japanese ships. Flak in the sky. Smoke rising from simulated burning ships.
Segments of color footage shot for John Ford's wartime documentary on the Battle of Midway, during World War II. Sailors near a gun aboard a U.S. warship. Individual Douglas SBDs repeatedly fly overhead. An SBD dauntless ditches in the sea. A destroyer approaches to rescue the crew.
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