First of three American air attacks on Japanese positions in Hong Kong on 25 Oct 1942, during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces North American B-25 Mitchell aircraft lined up at an airfield in China. General Claire L. Chennault, of Flying Tigers fame, discusses the missions with Colonel Caleb V. Haynes China Air Task Force (CATF) Bomber Section Commander and Colonel Robert T. Scott (CATF's 23rd Fighter Group Commander) 11th Bomb Squadron B-25 takes off from Ehr Tong Airfield at Kweilin (Guilin), China along with P-40 fighter escort. Formation of escorting Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighters. B-25 bombers in flight over mountain ranges. Bombs being dropped over the Hong Kong headquarters of the Japanese. Bombs impact and smoke rises.
People are seen skiing down the slopes of snow covered mountains in Utah. Then, an avalanche of snow is shown across a valley. It thunders down the mountainside covering trees and everything in its path and rapidly approaches the camera position. Scene shifts to a Snow Ranger of the U.S. Forest Service. View of badges worn by such Rangers. View of the Snow Ranger headquarters in Alta, Utah, where avalanche studies are conducted. Camera pans along a swath of deep snow on a mountainside.
A training film about the means of forecasting and controlling avalanches in Alta, Utah. A 81 mm mortar being used to set off an avalanche. Men work on the mortar. A 75 mm Mountain Howitzer being worked on for setting off an avalanche. Men load a shell into the Howitzer and fire. A slab avalanche is set off as snow drifts down a slope. A dust cloud is formed.
U.S. 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in the South Pacific during World War II. Prints on Rabaul negative being washed. A soldier puts the negatives in containers. A personnel dries the prints as he places them on machine. Machine gives out dried prints A sign on a door reads 'Printing'. Negatives brought to a dryer from the developing room. Men dry negative roll. A man rubs on either side of the negatives. June 4th, 1943: A soldier sleeps as others chat.
U.S. 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in the South Pacific during World War II. Aircraft of the 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron lined up on a taxi way. An overcast sky with dark clouds. Flashes occur in the dark due to firing.
A U.S. submarine patrol in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Crew men aboard USS Springer. The captain on the deck of the submarine. A man holds onto a halyard from which a Japanese flag flutters. An officer lights a cigarette. Four small Japanese flags on a halyard aboard USS Springer. Men on watch bridge of the submarine. A man looks through binoculars and smiles. Crew members converse with ship mates. Bearded men talk.
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