The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca in the harbor in United States. Several flags on a rope on the cutter. Men aboard the cutter. U.S. flag displayed on the cutter. Men on the deck of the cutter. The bow of the Coast Guard cutter. Men at work on the base of the cutter bow. U.S. flag and United States Coast Guard flag on the bow of the cutter. The cutter rolls on to the water from the harbor.
Bill Holmes risks his life and repairs a high flagstaff in New York City, New York. View of tall buildings and skyscrapers in New York City. A flagstaff on one of the tallest buildings. Man named Bill Holmes is seen climbing his way up to the top of the flag staff in a death defying stunt to repair the flag pole. Men gather on the ground, watch Bill Holmes climbing up. Bill Holmes, with a cigarette in his mouth, on the topmost position of the flag staff. Another man with Bill Holmes on the flag pole, performing the repair. A man stands at the base of the flagstaff and waves to the men.
A U.S. official and Cuban officials at the monument to the victims of battleship USS Maine in Havana, Cuba. The monument to the victims of USS Maine. Cuban Government officials and the American Ambassador offering wreaths at the base of the monument in memory of U.S. Naval officers and men who died when the battleship USS Maine sank. Label on one of the wreaths read 'Personal Representative of the United States of America'. A large crowd gathered around the monument. An aircraft in flight above the buildings in the vicinity of the monument. Views of the monument and the crowd.
Austrian Chancellor Engelburt Dollfuss visits Innsbruck, Austria. Guardsmen of paramilitary group Heimwehr, defending the borders of Austria, stand in rows. The guardsmen march on a snow covered road. Engelburt Dollfuss with an official reviews the troops. Officials salute the Chancellor. Heimwehr guardsmen patrol the Austrian border. Guards on an ice covered road. Guns placed on the road. Two men walking on a snow covered road. One of the men carrying a baggage. The guardsmen search the men and the baggage at the border. Chancellor Dollfuss with officials. Horsemen and troops standing in formation to honor the Chancellor. He visits a monument. An official lays a wreath at the base of the monument. Chancellor Dollfuss stands beside the monument. The troops stand at attention at the side of the monument and salute.
A spectator sits on a lamp post to watch soldiers of New York's 6th National Guard Division parade on a street in Manhattan, New York City, following their mobilization for the U.S.Punitive Expedition in 1916. Locomobile Armored cars of the 1st Armored Motor Battery, of the New York National Guard move along a roadway, followed by trucks carrying soldiers and automobiles and motorcycles. Spectators, including girls with flowers, watch from the roadsides. Scene shifts to open platform train station, where National Guard troops, with shouldered rifles, march onto the platform, next to a parked empty passenger train The platform is crowded with spectators and well wishers. Another scene shows a train filled with National Guard soldiers leaning out its windows, waving at friends and loved ones. Closeup of soldiers leaning out the windows of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger car. Two of them lean out to hold babies and kiss them goodbye. Scene shifts to dusty outdoor rail yard, where army horses are being readied to board boxcars. Closeup of fenced corral in which horses are guided for loading. Huge numbers of horses are herded by cowboys into corrals. A group of National guard soldiers stand on a rail bed and wave and smile for the camera. Army wagons are loaded on flat cars in a train parked behind them. Next, a large contingent of National Guard troops is seen marching onto an Army base.
U.S. aviators of the 1st Aero Squadron pose in front of a Curtiss JN-3 airplane their base in Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916. The rest of their aircraft are lined up, parked, side by side. Scene shifts abruptly to views of camp below, from an airplane flying above it. Pilot is seen in open cockpit.
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