Aerial views and gun camera views of U.S. Navy planes attacking Japanese installations and shipping along coast in the Pacific Ocean in World War II. Explosions and smoke as ground targets are bombed and strafed. Aerial views of smoke rising from coastline.
Tsingtao (Qingdao) Shantung Province, China. Camera pans over a hilltop with foliage and several buildings, near the U.S. Navy Air Base at Tsingtao (Qingdao) Shantung Province, China. It focuses on several sailors standing near a completely destroyed Navy R5D (Douglas DC-4) aircraft. The outer wings are missing and its four engines have been removed. While panning the wreckage, the camera picks up part of a tail number reading:" 80395." To the right, another aircraft fuselage is seen. Strips of aluminum are missing from it. It also appears to be a Navy R5D. A view of the cockpit shows the two control yokes missing from their pedestals. (Apparently salvageable parts have been removed from these crashed aircraft by Navy personnel.)
In a outdoor speech before a joint assembly of the Mississippi State Legislature, Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army, talks about freedom, American tradition, and leadership. His remarks are critical of the current U.S. Administration and its failure of spirit, not of military resources, to tackle communism in Korea during the Korean War. He calls it a bankruptcy of leadership in our American tradition, and a glaring failure in Korea. He completes his speech, referring to God, and the religious faith upon which the country was erected. The General is applauded and thanked formally. The Legislators then act to dissolve the joint assembly.
A demonstration of the Aeronca GT-1 glide torpedo. Six Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, of the U.S. Army Air Forces, fly in formation. Next, splashes from their guided bombs are shown in water below. A slate appears with illustration and title, "Preset Glide Torpedo Model GT-1." A GT-1 is shown rotating while hung from a chain in a manufacturing area. Another Aeronca GB-1 is on the floor in the background. Four airmen push a GT-1 on a wheeled dolly. They roll it and position it underneath the wing of a B-17. Closeup of them jacking up the dolley to position the GT-1. View of the torpedo secured under the aircraft. Gun camera footage shows a GT-1 on a long glide towards the water, after release from above. View from water surface of the GT-1 approaching the water. At the last moment, its paravane (wing) separates and the torpedo contacts the water. The paravane falls aside into the water. The camera pans over to a makeshift target. The process is repeated with a second GT-1 but it is not seen close to the water. A third demonstration is successful and the wake of the torpedo is tracked from an overflying aircraft.
U.S. Army training film titled 'Don't be a Sucker'. Two wrestlers fight at wrestling match. One of the wrestlers dominates and defeats the other one. Two men in spectators, one of them looses the bet money. Gamblers playing a card game. The winner among them gets the money. A bar girl kisses the victorious man and he walks out with her. The man who lost the game strikes the winner from behind. As he falls and faints on street, the girl and other man take off his money. (World War II period).
The Army-McCarthy hearings held by the United State's Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations on Senator Joseph McCarthy underway. The hearing reviews various photographs of Schine together with senior military officials. Army counsel Joseph Welch seen holding up the photograph and talking about it. The photographs are shown to jury members for inspection. Roy Cohn, Chief Counsel for Joseph McCarthy speaks at the microphone with the photos on the table beside him. Jury chairmen, Senator Karl Mundt with other subcommittee members. Clip closes with an unrelated shot of the House of Representatives chamber in the U.S. Capitol with a meeting of the full House in session.
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