U.S. Army paratroopers enter U.S. military transport C-47 preparing for a drop during World War II. Paratroopers in a line enter the aircraft. Interior view of the C-47 aircraft as the soldiers enter. Close up of two paratroopers talking to each other. Paratroopers in the plane readying for takeoff. Another aircraft in the background. Close up of the face of an American paratrooper in the aircraft seated and ready for takeoff.
USS Arizona (BB-39) underway. Smoke rising up from the smokestack. U.S. Navy blimp 'On the fly' in flight overhead. Sailors aboard the ship. Packet U.S. mail lowered on the ship. United States President Hoover aboard the ship. Men standing near him. President Hoover receives his mail.
Flexible glass (plexiglass) and its varied uses being tested soon after its invention. A man works on a flexible glass. Flexible glass used at various places. A glass at a diving platform as a diver dives into the pool. A car moves over a flexible glass embedded in a wooden frame. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960.
U.S. Marines in France during World War I. An officer wearing a winter overcoat with fur collar, decorates U.S. Marines with Distinguished Service Medals, on a parade ground in France. Afterwards, a contingent of Marines parades, as part of the award ceremony. They carry an American flag, and salute as they pass the reviewing officers. A military marching brass band parades with the Marines. (Several scenes are repeated in the clip).
U.S. Airmen (figefighters) of the 430th Tactical Fighter Squadron are seen performing maintenance on fire truck and equipment in their firehouse at the Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, during the Vietnam War. Glimpse of airmen relaxing in a ready room. Others are sunbathing on cots outdoors. Parked aircraft and fuel trucks are seen on an airfield apron. One taxis forward, slightly. Suddenly, an airman in a flight suit is seen running as fast as possible to the firehouse. He runs into a shower locker room where some airmen are seated, grabs a roll of toilet paper, and runs outside, dropping the roll, once, in his haste. Next, several airmen run from the shower locker room Camera focuses on a coiled cobra snake sitting in the sun, at the shower facility. It jumps towards the building. An airman with a hooked pole, pulls the snake from an awning, onto the ground, where others surround it and use shovels, clubs, and other implements to kill it. the airman with the hook poses, holding the dead snake aloft. It appears to be about 8 feet long. Glimpse of sunbather lying unperturbed on his cot.
'Colored smoke grenades: their use in combat' shows the types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during combat in WW2. Colored smoke grenades burst. An orange smoke grenade burns. Grenades piled up in a crate. A soldier picks up a grenade from the crate and removes the outer can. He throws it on the ground and orange smoke rises from it. An aerial views of an area along a coast. Units advance in a field. An aircraft in flight. Different units burst different colored smoke grenades to pass on the information about their position to their Commander. The aircraft drops a colored grenade to get some information from the unit on advance. The unit sets off a purple grenade as an answer. (World War II period).
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