Steam locomotive pulls long passenger train up to dirigible hangar at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.Visitors crowded aroung outside the hangar to see the German dirigible, LZ 129, Hindenburg, parked inside the hangar. Crowd enters the gate of the building. Sign overhead reads 'No Packages or Cameras allowed inside hangar'. The visitors are monitored by U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy personnel, as they enter the hangar.
Front view of LZ 129 Hindenburg approaching airfield for landing. LZ 129 Hindenburg overhead descending. Men await landing of Hindenburg on airfield.The Hindenburg makes several passes above airfield. Ground crew sets off smoke to show wind conditions. Tail fins of airship show Nazi swastika emblem on them. Ground crew near mooring tower at airfield.The Hindenburg descends to make landing.
LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship in flight. Crew members peer through open windows and open door. Name "Graf Zeppelin" painted on side of the airship. Ground crew sailors look up at LZ-127 in the air above Lakehurst. Ground crewmen surround the control bridge and cabin of the LZ-127, to stabilize and maneuver it on the ground. Views of Graf Zeppelin in flight over Lakehurst. It passes by a hangar.
Children walk on sidewalks, heading to school. Pet dog follows a boy to school. The boy enters the school house together with the dog, then exits a moment later to leave the dog outside the school. Young school boys queued up in school. African American school children in a line. Young African American school children dance. Boys and girl entering school buildings.
The tower of Woolworth Building as seen from building opposite. People look on. Various views of Woolworth Building. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building with clocks on all four sides and a sign reading: "Buy Liberty Bonds."
An English war bride is interviewed with her husband, a United States Army Captain, in uniform, upon her arrival in America after World War II. She says she doesn't know what to say, they have waited so long for this day. Another couple is interviewed with their baby. The British woman says it had been weeks and weeks since she had seen her husband. A third English war bride and her baby, reunited with her American husband, said she read, in American newspapers, that American girls are not too pleased about soldiers marrying English girls. She says further, that she hopes they won't feel too badly about it, because love is love, all over the world.
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