View from a U.S. submarine anchored in a bay in the Pacific theater during World War 2. An explosion is seen at point of land in background. A team of U.S. commandos is then seen paddling an inflated raft from the shore toward the submarine.They reach the submarine and are helped aboard, along with their raft. The four commandos pose wearing their steel helmets. View from the submarine as it gets underway on the surface.
German A-4 ballistic missile being test fired in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. A-4 missile also known as V-2 rocket on a launch pad. Missile being launched in the evening. Missile lifts off leaving behind a fiery flare. A-4 Missile in flight as it emits smoke and fiery flare. A-4 missile descends leaving behind a vapor trail.
German V-2 rocket, a ballistic missile known by German military as the A4, being test fired in Peenemunde, Germany during World War 2. Launch tower seen and V-2 rocket on a launch pad. Rocket lift off. Rocket ascends (tree limbs visible partially framing image), rocket in flight and descending.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Natives of Gambell village (indigenous Yupik people) go walrus hunting. A native with a harpoon. Walruses on the ice sheet. Man strikes the walrus with a harpoon. The walrus dives. Skin and floats are attaches to the line as a drag. Walrus in water. Natives in a boat. Natives pose with walrus tusks aboard the whaler.
Two boats move in water. A U.S. Coast Guard vessel approaches a liquor smuggler's boat (during Prohibition). Sound of guns firing. U.S. Coast Guard pursuing the bootleggers running liquor. Both the boats move fast in water.
American men and women do sand-planing along the Atlantic coast in Southampton. Sand-planing is a combination of winter sledding and summer aqua-planing, with a mid sized board, reinforced with aluminum, dragged behind a jeep at 30 miles per hour. Ropes are tied to an Aluminum board at one end, and to a jeep at the other end. Jeep pulls the aluminum board on which a person stands and sand-planes. The boards in some views enter the shallows of the surf (early skim boarding or skimboard concept).
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