Amphibious assault training during World War II. A crewman operates the controls of a winch aboard USS Callaway (APA-35) in the Pacific off Camp Pendleton, California. Two MZ radio jeeps are lowered into a hold. A Higgins Boat, LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel ) number PA35-15 is seen leaving the ship loaded with U.S. Marines. Marines climb down landing nets over the side of the ship and board more Higgins boats. Boats number PA35-12 and PA35-11 are seen filled with Marines heading towards the beach.
U.S. Marine amphibious assault training during World War II. jeep on the beach at Camp Pendleton. Dunes on the beach are marked in places with large signs of various kinds. landing craft partially ashore. One is adrift in the surf. A vehicle flying some sort of exercise flag goes down the beach and stops near a group of marines and some boxes in the surf. View from stern of a landing craft underway. Two Navy Grumman TBF aircraft buzz the beach. Landing craft maneuvering near the beach. A vehicle being lowered from attack transport ship into a landing craft. Several transport ships and a Navy dirigible are seen out from the beach. F6F aircraft buzz the transport from which film is shot. A landing craft approaching the beach. View forward from landing craft as a jeep with two occupants leaves and drives through the surf.
Men working at the U.S. Mint. Factories and buildings in an area. Interior of the factory. Men working to produce coinage. Men producing pennies with the help of machines and equipment.
Inauguration of Luis Munoz Marin as first elected Governor of Puerto Rico. Large celebration with parade of U.S. troops and Puerto Rican National Guard. View of the Puerto Rican Capitol Building. American and Puerto Rican flags. Governor Luis Munoz Marin reviews parade. He takes the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice of the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, Angel de Jesus. Standing behind the Governor, is U.S. Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, who has his hand on the Governor's back, and congratulates him. The Governor speaks over microphone. Decorated floats pass by during the parade. Children cheer. Huge crowd gathered to watch the parade and cheer. Aerial view of the Puerto Rican Capitol Building.
Mrs. Rose Bucher, the wife of Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Bucher (USS Pueblo Skipper), watches her husband’s plight in North Korea on television. Rose Rohling-Bucher shares her concern about her husband’s condition in North Korea. News reporter Bill Warden asks Rose Rohling-Bucher about the possibility of her husband’s release. “I guess I won’t believe they’re home until he's standing in the living room”, Rose Bucher says.
Italian Army Alpini recovering bodies of victims from United States Air Force aircraft C-47 which crashed in French Italian Alps, on October 24, 1954, while on a flight from Rome, Italy, to Lyon, France. The crash site is at 8,500 feet on Mount Carbonè, in Northern Maritime Alps, near Limone Piemonte, Cuneo, Italy. Italian Alpini (mountain troops) lead mules laden with bodies of crash victims, in canvas bags, down a mountain path. They are seen placing one such canvas bag into a coffin. A U.S. and an Italian officer then drape it with an American flag and Alpini pallbearers carry it to a waiting vehicle and gently place it on board. An Italian Alpini honor guard presents arms and its commander salutes.