United States Navy airship Akron being successfully tried in Akron, Ohio. Crew members gathered around the 785 feet long airship as it prepares for its maiden flight. The airship in flight. Aerial view of the airship in flight.
United States Coast Guard chases illegal liquor smugglers in Stapleton, New York during prohibition. A Coast Guardsman aboard a ship fires at a speeding boat of rum smugglers including Jim Deering. The Coast Guards at a harbor as they embark onto a speed boat and it pulls away. They chase the smugglers. They arrest the smugglers and confiscate illicit liquor cargo. The smugglers with their hands held up. Officers bring them to the dock.
The American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. United States troops loaded in landing crafts as they head towards New Guinea beach. The landing crafts hit the beach and the soldiers unload from the crafts and land. A number of landing crafts head towards the beach. The crafts at the beach as the soldiers land.
A dramatization about veterans of World War II as they learn to make pipes in Washington DC, United States. A World War II veteran Bob Ballad of 69th Infantry Division looks at a pipe. Bertram's Pipe Shop in Washington DC. A number of pipes being displayed in a window at the shop. Bob Ballad outside the shop. He goes there to learn the art of pipe making. Several war veterans learn to make pipes during a training course organized by the Bertram's. Partially disabled men work on machines and learn various operations involved in the process of pipe making.
The United States Army enters St. Lo, France during World War II. Soldiers among hedgerows as they hunt for German snipers. The soldiers walk along a dusty road leading to St. Lo. Heavy firing takes place. Captured German nurses march after being released. American and British soldiers receive medical aid. The soldiers walk through a mined area. A U.S. Army truck on fire. The soldiers hunt for the German snipers. They enter a building. A damaged building. A sign reads ' Refugee camp off limits'. French refugees at a camp as children play and women look on. View of flag draped body of U.S. Army Major Thomas D. Howie, of the 29th Infantry Division, on a pile of rubble beside the Saint-Croix Church in the Bascule District of St Lo.
Nazi German U boats surrender in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the United States near the end of World War 2. A German U boat U-858 underway in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape May, New Jersey, as it prepares to surrender to U.S. forces. A barrage balloon in flight. U.S. Navy escort vessels pull along side the submarine. Aircraft in flight. U.S. officers man the U boat and search for weapons aboard the submarine. German crew of the U boat lined up. Off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire another German U boat being taken over by the American crew. A U.S. sailor aboard a ship signals a blinker light. The U boat crew surrenders and disembarks. The crew being taken as prisoners to be taken to a Prisoner of War camp.
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