United States Marine Corps undergoing training at U.S. Marine Corps base in San Diego, California. Modern Marines operate portable radars on field. The Radar can detect a soldier hiding in the woods. Young Marines walk in the courtyard of U.S. Marine Corps Base. Marines undergo maintenance and repair training at the San Diego Base. Officer takes a class. Marines work on individual equipment as part of their training. Officer inspects his students work. Marines building a radio receiver. They also learn to repair radio.
Homecoming of USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in San Diego, California. Men at quarters aboard the ship. The Mayor of San Diego Joshua H. Bean speaks. The Consul of Sweden, Waldo Homburg comes to speak. Wives greet their sailor husbands on the dock. The sailors kiss and hug their wives and children.
Dramatization: Young U.S. Navy recruits in training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California. The recruits undergo various training exercises. Dramatization shows a group of recruits working as teams to climb a wall. A recruit runs through a semaphore training exercise and toward barracks. He reads from a paper and announces permission has been granted for the recruits to go fishing. The recruits in uniform on fishing boats at sea. New recruits joke around standing on the boat. Two recruits slip a fish down the shirt of a fellow recruit. A recruit (played by George Reeves - later "Superman") points to several Destroyers and mistakenly calls them Battleships. Another recruit points out a submarine. A commanding officer points out the view of North Island Naval Base, and the port and downtown area of San Diego. The recruits are fishing. An officer asks an enlisted man to pick up a blue tackle box and he picks up a yellow one instead.
Testing of American seaplane fighter aircraft F2Y Sea Dart at San Diego Bay in San Diego, California. The F2Y Sea Dart taxiing on bay waters during a test flight. Other vessels in the water. The F2Y Sea Dart taxis and takes off. The seaplane in flight. The bow of a huge vessel in view. The F2Y Sea Dart lands on the bay waters. The seaplane moves past another vessel. Buildings on the shore in the background. The seaplane taxis on the water. Vessels sail past the seaplane. The seaplane comes to a halt.
Testing of American seaplane fighter aircraft F2Y Sea Dart at San Diego Bay in San Diego, California. The F2Y Sea Dart taxis during a test. The seaplane comes to a halt and again taxis on the water taking a turn. Hangars on the shore in the background. The seaplane taxis on the bay waters.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives, in an open car decorated with patriotic bunting, at a pier in San Diego, where the American cruiser, USS Houston (CA -30) is docked. Camera focuses on the superstructure of the Cruiser, which displays the American flag and a flag with the Presidential Seal. Next, the President is seen looking over the railing of the Houston as well-wishers wave from the dock below. Closeup of Roosevelt smiling broadly as he waves from the ship's railing. Glimpse of USS Houston underway in San Diego harbor. (Note: On this occasion, President Franklin D. Roosevelt boarded the USS Houston for a fishing trip. His party included scientists from the Smithsonian Institute, who were to collect specimens from Central and South America while the President fished.)
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