View of a motorboat heading toward an Japanese Imperial Navy Niagra-class light cruiser anchored near a submarine, in waters off Kiska,in the Aleutian Islands, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Japanese naval guns firing. A U.S. Army Air forces B-24 Liberator bomber is seen in flight overhead. Explosion and smoke fills scene next to Japanese camera ship, and then another bomb explodes in the water nearby. A Japanese submarine and destroyer are in the background. Japanese ship fires anti-aircraft guns at a U.S. PBY-5 Catalina in flight overhead. Camera follows flight of the Catalina past ship's funnel which is emitting black smoke. Another bomb hits water near the ship. More anti-aircraft fire is seen from the ship. The Catalina turns away, with a slight trail of smoke behind. Next, a large explosion is seen from a bomb striking near the shore. A Catalina, flying toward the camera ship, passes over a hill, through black flak clouds, and is struck. It descends, emitting trailing puffs of black smoke and strikes the shoreline in an explosion and black smoke.
A number of girls participate in a unique hobby horse race in Santa Monica,California. Participants ride a quadricycle with hobby horses. One of the girls wins the race.
Nearly 600 strikers during labor dispute at Douglas AirCraft Company surrender to police in Santa Monica, California. Several emerge from company building and get in Black Maria paddy wagon and are taken to Los Angeles jail.
Newsreel titled 'Auto plane for road and skyway is demonstrated' shows an Arrowbile flying car (sometimes spelled aerobile) running on the road in Santa Monica,California. The tail-less machine invented by Waldo Waterman (Waterman's Aerobile) being attached with wings and then it takes off as an aircraft.
A film titled ' Giant plow made to uncover soil buried under sand ' shows three 90 horse power tractors pulling a giant plow capable of making a six feet deep furrow in Santa Ana,California. The plow uncovers soil from underneath a sand cover.
Army Aircraft production at Douglas Company plant in Santa Monica, California. Interior of the Douglas plant, where C-47 (DC-3) transport planes and B-18 Bolo bombers are seen in various stages of manufacture. A factory worker watches as the landing gear of a bomber is raised into retracted position. A row of Wright Cyclone radial engines sit on stands. A group of B-10 aircraft in formation passing by the rock face of a mountain, at altitude below the mountaintop.
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