U.S. Army Colonel Lief J. Sverdrup takes breakfast in a jungle at Nadrab. Soldiers bring him food. A soldier walks to a stream and gets a bucket of water. (World War II period).
U.S. P-38 Lightning and heavy bomber aircraft in flight approaching the Wewak airfield. Close-up aerial views of P-38s and B-25 Mitchell aircraft. Aircraft attacking Japanese Fourth Air Army targets. Several B-24 liberators, B-25 bombers and P-38 lightning aircraft flying over the airfield. Aircraft rolling, circling and flying low over airfield and dropping bombs. A B-24 Liberator on its side in a pond. Appears to have crashed off edge of Allied airfield on returning from Wewak raid. (World War II period).
A new steel plant is introduced at Gala ceremony in Ashland, Kentucky. A band plays musical instrument as it marches at a gala ceremony. Civilians stand behind a boundary of rope. Officials speak at dais. A man digs mud and shovel it. View of steel plant. Interior: Fuel is being burnt inside the combustion chamber. Molten material is being poured.
First ships at new dock after Allied liberation of Manila, Philippines during World War II. Dutch and American ships at dock area. “Fort Amsterdam” ship in Manila. Dutch and American flags on their ships. Trucks seen in foreground. Filipino workers load supplies. A crane hoists the supplies and load on to truck.
Scene from fight between professional boxers Mike Leonard and Jack Cushing, staged at the Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A.. Several spectators in background.
View of the overhead crossing of the Pennsylvania and Jersey Central railroads at Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Philadelphia Express on the Jersey Central passes underneath at full speed, just before a train passes overhead on the Pennsylvania crossing. (Filmed by Edison Company, 1897)
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