Invasion of Saipan in the Mariana Islands during World War II.. A task force leaves Roi anchorage. Destroyers and light aircraft carriers in sea. A U.S. Navy OS2U Kingfisher floatplane on a catapult. Battleships and an Escort aircraft carrier in the sea.
A guide shows farms and gardens to people in Morocco. He points towards areas of the farm using a wooden stick. hills in the background. A mixture of local and Western people watch and listen. The guide walks with the visitors through a garden.
Mohamed (Muhammad) Ben Youssef (Mohamed V), Sultan of Morocco, walks through a garden with friends. A gardener, using a watering can, pauses to bow, as the Sultan walks past. The Sultan escorts his party past a pool of water associated with a structure being built on the grounds. He converses with a construction worker. Together, they climb partially completed steps of the building and examine the work. Later, the sultan and his son, Moulay Hassan, place small pieces of tile in a complicated mosaic, part of the structure.
Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, United States. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert stand and talk in front of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, also known as ENIAC, their invention. A woman technician hands over paper results. Readings are taken from a meter on the control panel of the early computer (the first electronic, general purpose, programmable digital computer). A technician attaches equipment to a control panel. A woman works on a terminal interface while a man checks results using an abacus. Numbers are observed as they light on a display.
The Royal Air Force ( RAF ) in Great Britain during World War II. Aircraft in flight. Workers work for the production of aircraft. Officers greet in front of a line of stationed aircraft. A Royal Air Force Lockheed Hudson light bomber taxis and takes off. The Lockheed Hudson in flight. Narrator acknowledging America and its workers for the contribution of the Hudson and the B-17. A RAF B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft takes off. Trainees march. The trainees work on equipment learning use of guns and bomb dropping mechanisms on the planes. A link trainer in operation. Classroom instructions given to the trainees. Airmen at controls in mock bomber trainers. An officer at a desk talks to a bomber crew as one of the crewman makes a report on the results of their bombing run, on behalf of the bomber crew. Another officer makes a report for fighter pilots. A fighter pilot picks up a telephone. The fighter pilots run to their aircraft. The aircraft taxi and take off, participating in the Battle of Britain.
Interior view from right side of an aircraft taking off from Torokina Air Strip on Bougainville Island, during World War 2. Numerous aircraft are seen parked near trees beside the runway, including U.S. Marine Corps F4U Corsairs; P-38 Lightnings; RNZAF P-40s; and USAAF Piper L-4 Grasshoppers. F4U Corsairs are taxiing beside the runway. Aircraft interior backward view from the departing aircraft's tail, shows the runway below and behind, with water on two sides. Next, the narrow airstrip is seen as the camera airplane flies overhead, just offshore, parallel to the runway. The camera continues to focus on the airfield as the plane climbs to higher altitude. Aerial view of small islands below, with small boats leaving wakes as they speed across the water. Next is view at lower altitude as the camera plane flies offshore parallel to the airstrip runway, as if on a downwind leg for landing. Next scenes are from above nearby Piva Yoke fighter airstrip, and parallel Piva Uncle bomber airstrip, which appears to be under construction. It is cut out of jungle and no aircraft are seen on it. The camera airplane's right rear horizontal stabilizer is seen momentarily as it flies slowly over the site. Some smoke rises from the area. Views of mountain and a river, as the flight continues. The final view is from offshore, over the sea.
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