U.S. Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis visiting sites of interest in Hawaii. Rustic military Headquarters building displays sign, "Kilauea Military Camp." A car drives up and passengers step out to be greeted happily by women and children who have been waiting on the building porch. (Slate explains that this is a military rest camp a half mile from the Kilauea crater.) Camera pans across cabins occupied by military families. Some soldiers are seen having fun on the grounds. Camp visitors are seen looking across a crater at smoke rising from the active Mauna Loa volcano. View from behind of Secretary Davis conversing with the Superintendent, Richard T. Evans, of Kilauea National Park, as they both watch the steaming crater. A huge chunk of lava rock bearing a sign that reads: "8 tons, hurled over one mile high during eruption May, 1924." A slug of lava clinging to skeleton of a tree. Sign at base of tree reads: "Don't touch spatter on trees, Very Fragile."
Camera pans into crater of Kilauea volcano, where someone has scrawled an inscription in the lava (not readable). Scene shifts to Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis, and Hawaii Territorial Governor, Wallace R. Farrington, stepping out of the local volcano museum, onto a patio, where other persons are standing. Scene shifts to deck of the battleship, USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) where Secretary Davis stands near the railing. Closeup of Major General Fox Conner, Commander of the U.S. Army Hawaii Department, standing with Rear Admiral Robert R. Marvel, aboard the Pennsylvania. Marines firing gun salute with artillery field pieces as the Pennsylvania arrives at Pier 5 in Pearl Harbor. Secretary Davis on the dock, with his party including: daughters, Alice and Cynthia; Civilian aide, John H. Holliday and Military Aide, 1st Lieutenant Lester J. Maitland. The daughters are assisted as they enter a car. Next, Secretary Davis and Aide Holliday, enter a car displaying the Secretary of War Flag on its hood.
The Reconnaissance Patrol in Korea. Tank with United States soldiers aboard drives on rough roads. Soldiers patrol on foot. They climb a hill. United States soldier uses a mine detector. (Korean War)
Reconnaissance Patrol in Korea. Two United States soldiers walk ahead of M4 Sherman Tank using a mine detector. Soldiers fires Quad .50 Caliber Machine Gun targeting on hill. M4 tank named "Renobaby II" drives off road to make way for other vehicle. (Korean War)
187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team of the U.S. Army patrol in Munson-ni, Korea during the Korean War. They climb uphill on foot. Wounded Korean man carried by two other Koreans. Men fold parachutes on ground. Helicopter flies overhead. Soldiers pass a village with Korean civilians on road. United States officers drive an army jeep. Corporal Robert T Turner, a combat still photographer checks his camera.
U.S. Army 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team members practice parachute drop in Korea, during Korean War. Large group of paratroopers parachute into plowed field. Weapons and supplies are also air dropped. Soldiers walk past a Lieutenant who kneels on a chute that carried a box containing a M1919A4 .30 Cal Machine gun. The gun is seen on a tripod, on the ground.
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