U.S. Women's National Amateur Golf Championship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Women score holes as they strive to win the championship. A large audience looks on. People cross over a bridge to move to the other part of the golf course. Virginia Van Vie wins the title for a third time, defeating Dorothy Traung. Virginia Van Vie being presented the winning trophy.
U.S. open tennis tournament in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Men's doubles finals where Adrian Quist- John Bromwich take on Hopman-Crawford. Quist and Bromwich win the title. The duo being presented with the trophies. Women's doubles finals where the pair of Alice Marble and Sarah Palfrey Fabyan win the title.
Cockatoos birds perform stunts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The birds on a miniature giant wheel as one of them operates it to demonstrate the way they used to entertain Allied soldiers in France during World War I. The birds enjoy a merry go round ride. They climb up and down a ladder. A bird hoists an American flag.
Evacuation of personnel from and delivery of emergency supplies to Bludenz, Austria after the avalanche disaster of 13th January, 1954. Supply packages with 'CARE' written on them being loaded into a United States H-19 helicopter. U.S. Colonel Robert L. Rizon accepts the CARE packages from Professor Baumgartner. Major Ontko and Herr Lange look on. A tent area with personnel outside the tents. The plateau area where H-19 helicopters land. A H-19 helicopter lifts off. A group of personnel affected by the avalanche watch the operations.
The types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during combat in WWII. An enactment shows a unit in a forest which has been cut off from its headquarters. The leader of the unit sights a friendly reconnaissance plane and throws a green smoke grenade to signal their position. Another grenade burns indicating their immediate need. The pilot of the aircraft throws a sign grenade. He signals them the way to be followed by throwing a red smoke grenade along the road to be followed.
The types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during WWII. An enactment shows units during an advance. Laying out a cloth in an arrow sign indicating the direction of an enemy fire and burning a smoke grenade near it. The smoke signal indicates the help required by the unit in knowing the direction of the enemy fire. A reconnaissance plane surveys the combat area and enemy installations. A pillbox being located and smoke grenades being burst. Soldiers fire 4.2 mortars at the pillbox and smoke rises. Smoke engulfs the pillbox. Ground units attack the area. A soldier sets off a colored smoke grenade to indicate cease fire. Soldiers advance and smoke from colored grenades rises.
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