U.S. Army paratroopers are seen heading toward C-47 transport planes and boarding them for a planned post-war airborne exercise in the Philippines. A large number of C-47 transport aircraft are seen with engines running on an airfield. They begin to taxi out for takeoff. View of a C-47 plane in flight, carrying an advance trooper who parachutes out carrying a radio beacon which he is next seen setting up the "Eureka" part of Signal Corps "Rebecca/Eureka" system. Closeup of the equipment and the trooper setting it up. He assembles a long radio antenna attached to the transmitter. View of three C-47 aircraft in flight heading toward the paratrooper drop zone. Animated drawing shows how the aircraft, carrying the "Rebecca" airborne interrogators, home in on the Eureka signal from the ground. Next, paratroopers are seen exiting aircraft over the drop zone. View from another airplane of the troopers' chutes opening and them descending from the C-47s. Parachutes are silhouetted against cloudy skies. Paratroopers landing, some roughly, on the ground.
U.S. submarine underway in the Pacific Ocean. Sailors and officers aboard the submarine watching the enemy actions through binoculars. United States flag and small Japanese flags flying atop the conning tower. A life boat along the side of submarine. Officers looking through binoculars and discussing amongst themselves. A man sending blinker signals. A sailor coming out of hole on the deck of the submarine. Officers talking amongst themselves. (World War II period).
Glimpse of pilot and crewmember with binoculars, inside a U.S. Navy K-5 anti-submarine blimp in flight over Long Island Sound. Aerial view of the blimp, over water. View from the blimp, of a submarine moving at hight speed, partially submerged, in the water below. Later views of the submarine fully surfaced moving at low speed.
Aerial view of a U.S. Navy K-5 anti-submarine blimp in flight over a partially submerged submarine moving in the waters of Long Island Sound, during World War 2. Views from the air, of the submarine underway and then submerging to periscope depth
A snow covered area. Transportable weather stations being used according to requirements. These mobile units can be transported anywhere. A man gets inside a weather station. Airplanes flying in formation overhead. Parachutes being dropped from the airplane. A soldier stands holding an air balloon. Another soldier stands nearby. Humidity, temperature and air pressure are being measured. A rocket being launched for the purpose.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is reelected as the next President of the United States. Roosevelt seated at a desk in his office. He addresses the nation. He thanks people for supporting him.
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