Invasion of Guam in Pacific Theater during World War II. A Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) approaches the beach and fires 40 mm guns. 40 mm tracers strafe the beach. LCI moves very close to the shore and continues to strafe the coast with 40 mm guns. Explosions occur on the coast. United States Navy high speed transport APD dead in water as a landing craft moves away from it.
Internees at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Otto Feuer, a Jewish internee from Hamburg states how he has been in concentration camps for past so many years. He thanks the American Army for liberating them from the concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany on April 11, 1945. Other internees in the background.
Aerial view of Fort Trumbell, Connecticut. Coast Guard enlistees learn to tie different types of seaman's knots. At a signal drill they learn flag semaphore. Men receive radio instructions and operate radio sets as well as telegraph keys.
Role of United States Coast Guards. A luxury liner, SS Morro Castle burns at sea as smoke rises from it. United States Coast Guard Cutter Tampa (WPG-48) underway to rescue the people on board the liner. A 75 foot long patrol boat underway to reach the burning vessel. Men aboard life boats. Men swim in the sea as lifeboats rescue them. Men swim towards the beach where beach patrol men save their lives. Smoke rises from the burning ship. USCG Cutter Tampa seen towing the SS Morro Castle after the disaster (but the hawser then broke and the Morro Castle drifted aground). Remains of the charred vessel aground at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Animated map shows Houses of Refuge on Florida Atlantic coast, and Coast Guard Stations along the Gulf coast. View of a hurricane on the Gulf coast. Coast Guard Station personnel distributing food to hurricane victims. A victim receiving medical care. Scene shifts to California coast where Coast Guard Stations are found at San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and on the Northwest coast leading up to Puget Sound and Seattle in Washington state. Scene shifts again, to the Great Lakes where many Coast Guard Stations are shown on map, most of them along Lake Michigan. A station is indicated at the Great Falls of the Ohio River in Kentucky.
United States Ships in France during World War I. United states Navy destroyers Burrows (Number 29), Little, Jarvis, Bell, Winslow and Wainwright in the harbor at Brest, France. Transport ships and assorted other craft in the harbor.
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