A film depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory deliver a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. Animated map shows the route traveled by the ship from San Francisco. A skipper abroad the ship looks through a binoculars. The captain plots a graph for the navigation officer to follow. The locomotives aboard the ship. The ship underway in the pacific.
A film depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory deliver a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. Crew men painting the ship. Several views of men painting the ship. Two men attaching rope to a block. A man puts a nail and hits it with a hammer. Two men chipping old paint. A man aboard a lifeboat checks the parts and paints a rope on the lifeboat. A man with a peg leg climbs up a ladder for painting the ship. A close up of the man having peg leg. Men painting black color on a conning tower. Men working on the wire ropes. The wire ropes on the deck. A man on a ladder paints the rigging.
A film depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory deliver a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. A man stands at a deck. He looks at the bird flying. A crew man wearing a hat walks up to him and talks to him. Both of them go for a tour of the ship. They both climb up a ladder. The man points out his finger towards the main mast. He shows him the cargo boom. The man wearing hat shows hatch number 1 and climbs down a ladder. They both move towards the bridge. They both head towards the flying bridge aboard the ship. The man wearing hat steers a navigation wheel and other man looks at him. The man at controls. They both move towards the life boat. The man points out at the porthole. Both of them taking the tour of the ship. They both talk.
Reconstruction of Saipan airfield in the Mariana Islands by American soldiers. Damaged hangars on Saipan airfield due to bombings by Japan. Men beside bulldozers parked in an area. A bulldozer clearing the airstrip. Men set detonation charges on the ground. The bulldozers at work in the background. The charges going off resulting in explosions. Power shovels, bucket elevators and trucks used to reconstruct the airstrip. Equipment at work on the airstrip. Narrow gauge flatcars are loaded with supplies by a crane. The flatcars moving on a path. The supplies are unloaded. A man beside a flatcar. Men beside equipment clearing the airstrip. Two U.S. soldiers sitting on a track and one of them writes 'B & O Express' on the back of a rail cart. The men shake hands. A man beside a rail cart of drums on a track. Men stand on materials in rail carts and the rail carts move. Several tents in view. (World War II period).
French ocean liner SS Flandre at New York Harbor in the United States. SS Flandre arrives at New York Harbor after an engine failure during her maiden voyage. A U.S. official shake hands and receives the Captain of the ship. Other naval officers and officials standing behind the men. Men trying to anchor the ship in the harbor when electric winches fail to raise its anchor. The ship leaves the harbor with its passengers standing at railing. SS Flandre underway in the harbor.
Japanese women welcome GIs in Japan. Japanese women wearing traditional kimonos dance on a dockside welcoming GIs from the United States. GIs on the ship approaching the dock watch the women dance. The women performing an angel dance wave small U.S. flags. The soldiers, bound to Korea as replacements, disembark from the ship holding their baggages.
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