A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of foreign animal diseases. Animated map of the United States of America depicts the New England region of the U.S. affected with foot and mouth disease of animals during year 1870 and Mexico and Canada affected by epizootics in 1946 and 1952 respectively. A technician stores animal foot and mouth disease virus in a laboratory freezer.
A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of foreign animal diseases. Incoming supplies and equipment needed to carry out research are admitted through autoclaves to achieve sterilization. Technicians at different machines handle glassware and other equipment to be used for the research. Scientists expose research animals to foot and mouth disease virus in an isolated room. The virus is injected below the tongue of the animals. A man takes out the internal organs of a humanely destroyed cattle. The scientist lays down his knives and wears rubber gloves. He examines the internal organs of the cattle during the post-mortem. The animal carcass is placed into an incinerator. A technician wearing red clothing operates the incinerator. The carcass burns in the incinerator.
U.S. soldiers in bomb-damaged port facilities at Messina, Sicily, during World War 2. A U.S. Army Technical Sergeant wearing a holstered sidearm, walks past an overturned railroad locomotive. He stops and picks up an abandoned Italian Breda 30 light machine gun. He checks the weapon's action and holds it up in firing position. Another U.S. soldier rummages amongst abandoned Italian small arms. The Tech Sergeant climbs aboard an abandoned port utility tug vehicle. The camera focuses on the side profile of the vehicle. A crane on a railway is seen near a damaged ship. Chunks of concrete pier are seen and damaged port machinery. A small fire burns at the base of a hill near a rail line at the port.
Survivors of USS Indianapolis at a naval base hospital in Peleliu, Palau towards the end of World War II. Navy ambulances lined up on a dock. Casualties on stretchers are placed on the dock. A doctor converses with a patient. Casualties on stretchers are removed from ambulances and placed on the dock.
U.S. Navy survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) sinking in Peleliu, Palau towards the end of World War II. Entrance to a hospital ward at a naval base hospital. Ambulatory sailor patients exit from a building and climb into a waiting truck. Stretcher patients carried from the hospital ward and placed in waiting ambulances.
B-17Fs of the 8th Bomber Command, 1st Bomb Division, 305th Bomb Group, 366th Bomb Squadron, landing at their base, RAF Chelveston, in Northamptonshire, England, during World War II. The first to land displays a dozen yellow bombs, for missions, painted under the pilot's cockpit window, and Squadron code KY, and L, on its fuselage. Its tail number is 42-5053. The second plane to land displays KY and D, on fuselage, and tail number 42-29553. The third, shows the squadron's KY, but other markings are not readable. The fourth to land displays some mission bombs below its cockpit window, the Squadron KY, and J on the fuselage. Its tail number is 41-21624. Bomb Group tail codes and nose art are not seen on any of the aircraft. But, researchers have identified names of three of them: Bloody Tangier Show (42-5053), Arkie II (42-29553),and Madame Betterfly (41-24624), and estimate the film to have been shot between 3/1/1943 and 5/19/1943.
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