Historical sites related to the westward expansion of the United States. The belltower of Mission in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California. Man surrounded by white pigeons. Statue of Saint Junípero Serra and a Native American Indian boy at San Juan Capistrano Mission. The bells of San Juan Mission. The interior of San Juan Church in California.
Armed Forces day at Pepperrell Air Force Base, St. Johns, Newfoundland Canada, together with Torbay Airport (also known as St. John's Airport). Demonstrations of fire fighter equipment, water cooled 30 caliber machine gun, radar scanner. Weather balloon released in air. Ongoing parade through Saint Johns with United States and Canadian forces passing review stand. Aircrafts on exhibition include C-54, B-50, T-33, H-34, F-89 D's, C-47's and C-54's fly over in formation.
Aftermath of the Battle of St. Pietro Infine, Italy, after it was taken by soldiers of the U.S. Army 36th Division, 143rd Infantry Regiment and troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, during World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers of the 143rd Infantry Regiment, scramble down a mountainside over rubble from destroyed buildings in San Pietro Infine, Italy, following the battle there during December 1943. (These scenes were photographed later, in 1944.) Next, more local people are seen running from a mountain cave, where they had taken refuge during the battle of San Pietro. Old people, women, and children make their way down the rubble strewn hillside and onto a remnant of road surrounded by destroyed buildings. Italian women carry their belongings balanced on their heads as they walk towards the remains of their dwellings. A man leads two cattle. One woman carries a new coffin balanced on her head. An 82nd Airborne trooper warns local people about the danger of mines and booby traps left behind by retreating German soldiers. A soldier removes a booby trap in a doorway. Women trying to clean up and settle in the ruins of their homes. As one woman sweeps debris, an huge explosion occurs, bringing down large portions of a building. U.S. Soldiers dig through debris, with shovels. An MP and infantryman stand with several Italian men as one is grief stricken while they retrieve the body of a loved one from the rubble. A woman weeps. Women nurse and comfort their babies. Small children are seen happily emerging from a cave. A mother admonishes her boy. Women and children are relieved and smiling. Several children scamper down a hill. Others are seen walking about and posing shyly for the camera. Local men clearing rubble and women washing clothes in an outdoor stream as they try to reestablish some normalcy in their lives. A shoemaker resuming business at a small bench outdoors. Men unloading sacks of flour from a truck. People purchasing flour being weighed in an outdoor market. Farmers plowing fields with oxen. A church procession, led by a youth carrying a Christian banner, moves from a bombed out church, between mounds of rubble, . Statue of a Saint at the church.
Kennel club dog show at Alameda, California. A white shepherd, Huskies, Cairn, Saint Bernard, Pekes and Chows with their masters. Wire hair Terrier dogs brushed up for the Blue Ribbon honors.
A horse carriage comes out of the Royal Palace of Brussels (Rue Brederode 16, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium). The crowd gathers in street amidst heavy rains. Prince Leopold and his wife, Princess Astrid, carrying the baby Prince Baudouin, sit inside the carriage. The carriage arrives at the church, the Saint Jacques-sur-Coudenberg (Impasse du Borgendael 1, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium), for Prince Baudouin’s baptism. Man with umbrella moves near the carriage. Princess Astrid and Prince Leopold get down from the carriage and climb the stairs. Prince Baudouin is brought by his attendants. The coachman smiles and the crowd cheers. Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid come out of the church after the baptism. They are escorted to the carriage under a cover to save them from pouring rains. The crowd lined the street under heavy rains to see Prince Baudouin
During World War 1, the SMS Szent Istvan (Saint Stephen), a Austro-Hungarian Battleship, is seen capsizing after a torpedo attack off the Dalmation Coast by Italian torpedo boats. Close view as the ship rolls over while crew member clamber across her hull in effort save themselves. Some surviving crew are rescued on lifeboats. A submarine,operating on the surface, launches a torpedo. A submarine begins to dive. A merchant ship is torpedoed and sunk. Battleship sinking scenes are repeated.