Maneuvers of U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in the vicinity of the Sacramento Mountains in Texas. Men fire machine guns on a field. Other men ride horses on the field.
Activities of U.S. soldiers at Fort Hancock in New Jersey. Soldiers stand near a railroad gun. Some of the soldiers stand on a guard tower and watch a target with binoculars. They load and fire the railroad gun towards the sea target. A splash in water due to the firing.
Domestic activities of the United States Coast Guard in the United States during World War II. Coast guardsmen patrol a beach. Men seated in a car drive past on the beach. A U.S. Coast Guard man seated on a horse patrols along the beach. A Coast Guard patrol walks on the beach. Newspaper showing headline and article about disruption of Operation Pastorius by Coast Guard in World War 2, leading to capture of Nazi German would-be saboteurs. View of two of the captured saboteurs being escorted by guards. Smoke in the foreground from the burning of a ship. Men on the deck of a ship. They take an oath. Men aboard a motor boat. Men aboard a yacht and other ships underway at sea. Men aboard a life boat arrive at a beach. They carry the men rescued by them on stretchers.
Activities of U.S. 8th Army Air Forces in the European Theater during World War II. An airplane takes off from an airfield. Airplanes lined up on the airfield. They take off from the field and fly in formation overhead. Men load a bomb in the bomb bay of an airplane. A pilot in the cockpit of the airplane. Airplanes fly in formation. Airplanes parked on the airfield.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. Group of men gathered at a stream bed digging and panning for gold. Dramatization of a sailing ship leaving dock as gathered crowd of men, women, and children wave goodbye from dock during mid 1800's Gold Rush. Merchant Marine sailing ships underway at sea. Men working on a clipper ship. Views of tall sailing clipper ships at full sail and in storms with dramatization of crews battling to stay afloat during storm. Clipper ships round Cape Horn during the California Gold Rush of 1849 (dramatized). Fulton's steamship, the North River Steamboat, or Clermont, sails up the Hudson River. Smoke from the stacks of the steam ship. View of a steamship overtaking a sailing vessel at sea, as narrator describes the demise of the tall sailing ships after the arrival of the steamship. (World War II period).
A German submarine underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. German sailors and officer aboard the submarine. They watch a U.S. ship through a periscope. A sailor watches the target through binoculars. The submarine emerges out of water and torpedoes the ship. The ship burns. German sailors watch the burning ship and cheer.
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