A camouflaged freighter escorted by the U.S. Navy destroyer ship USS Schenck (DD-159) in the Atlantic Ocean. View of guns aboard the filming vessel. Other vessels underway in the far background. DD-159 moves at a distance. Smoke rises from smokestacks of several vessels in the far background. Crew members stand on the deck railings of the filming vessel. DD-159 and the camouflaged freighter.
American battleships, destroyers and submarine chasers escort freighter in the Atlantic. A passenger cruiser passes in the foreground. The U.S. flags at the bow and stern sections of the cruiser. Battleships move in formation. Sun sets at far horizon.
USS Alabama (BB-8) serves as a bombing practice target and is destroyed by Phosphorus bombs in the Chesapeake Bay, off the coast of Maryland, United States. Views of the USS Alabama at sea. A U.S. Army DH-4 single-engine bi-plane bomber of the 1st Provisional Air Brigade is prepared for a bombing run. Army soldier inspecting bombs attached to bottom of plane. The bomber in flight toward the target. Bombs released from the bomber. Huge explosions from phosphorus bombs on the mast birds nest area of the USS Alabama. The ship is completely shrouded in white smoke. Subsequent bombing run on the ship days later. The ship is struck by 2,000 pound bombs and quickly tips sideways and sinks in shallow water. Close views of the wrecked ship with mast toppled and massive destruction on deck.
During the timeframe of the Dies Committee hearings, under Representative Martin Dies, regarding the suppression of the American Communist Party. A U.S. newspaper headline: "Trotsky Seeks to Come Here for 'Fair Trial'. Friends of exiled Red back move to have his side of alleged plot known." (exiled from Soviet Union.) View of Russian-Ukrainian political leader Leon Trotsky reading aloud the text of a pamphlet. Bricked wall in the background.
U.S. bomber aircraft sinks the German Capitol ship, Ostfriesland under the command of General Billy Mitchell. Aerial views of bomb striking on the German battleship. Bomber dives in over the sinking battleship and drops bombs. Bubbles rise from area in which battleship sank. General Mitchell congratulates men and officers of the bomber group. View of the bomber group at Langley field showing early type of equipment, transportation and uniforms. General Mitchell addresses the men. Tower in the background. General Mitchell stands in front of a group of bomber pilots who sank the German battleship. Officers and airmen pose for a group picture. Hangars in the background.
Workers separate horizontal slabs of layered rock with picks, at Norris Dam site in Tennessee, United States. A man inserts blade of pick between layers of rock and uses it as lever to separate them.
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