Landing craft (LCVP) heads towards beach at San Clemente Island in United States during amphibious assault landings. Two CH-37 helicopters in flight. The helicopters in formation above water. Coastline of San Clemente Island in the background.
Wreckage and debris on Munda Point airfield, New Georgia Island, after its capture by U.S. forces during World War 2. Dead Japanese soldiers. Destroyed aircraft on island as result of U.S. bombing. Reconstruction workers clear and enlarge runway and operations tower as Americans improve and expand the airbase for their own operations. U.S. flag raised on pole. Seen are the first aircraft to land at Munda Point (on August 14, 1943). The first is a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-40 with letter K and white stripe on fuselage and a white tail. It is followed by a J2F Duck carrying U.S.Marine Brigadier General Francis P. Mulcahy to set up his new headquarters at Munda Point.
Wreckage and debris in Munda, New Georgia Island, during World War 2. Workers clear field at Munda Point. Air Force construction team clear area using power shovel and road graders. Supply and ammunition base of the island. TBF planes taxi on runway. C-47 crew unload bomb carriers. Loaded bomb carriers move out towards flight line. Control Tower operators look at a P-39. It taxis and takes off. B-25 (Mitchell Bomber) makes forced belly landing.
Activities at an air base on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. An aerial view of the Diego Garcia Island. The runway at the air base. A U.S. Air Force C-141A Starlifter aircraft approaches and lands. A flight line is seen from the cockpit. The aircraft taxis. Forklifts and other vehicles parked at the flight line. A U.S. Military Customs Officer. Civilians and military personnel deplane the C-141A Starlifter aircraft.
U.S. Army Air Force aircraft attack enemy installations on Munda Point, Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. 13th Air Force bombers in flight over Vila in the Solomon Islands. The bombers take off from Guadalcanal to attack Japanese installations on Munda Point in New Georgia. Views of support fighter aircraft taking off to join in this, the largest single raid (total participating aircraft) in the Pacific thus far. U.S. naval guns shell enemy targets on Munda. The bombers release bombs over ground targets. Ships fire salvo from giant artillery guns towards shore targets. Smoke rises from heavy shell fire. The bombers escorted by fighters drop bombs over the targets. Smoke billows up from exploding targets. View of newly formed craters all over Munda Point after smoke clears. Aerial views of a second round of bombing over Munda Point during the same raid.
A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center( PIADC ) in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of foreign animal diseases. Removal of animal virus in a laboratory shows personnel in special rubber clothing inside an animal isolation unit. The rubber is disinfected with lie solution. Caustic solution in rinsed off in a shower. Clothing is cleaned using a brush. A man cleans the room with the lie solution. Sewage passed through welded lines to sewage decontamination building. Three holding tanks receive sewage. Sewage is heated to sterilizing temperature and discharged outside the laboratory. An officer inside research buildings looks at a light blinking on a central trouble panel. A technician takes a look at the diagram of the layout of the building and instructs over a telephone. A technician approaches an overheated motor. He inspects equipment of air control system of the laboratory. Technicians work on machines in a machine shop. A patient being treated in a first aid room. Service area for cleaning and sterilization of glassware and a laundry in the research building. A man cleans his nasal and throat passages, scrubs his hands and takes a shower. Employees board a bus. A guard looks through binoculars.
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