USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) in Japan Sea. Tanker ship refuels USS Philippine Sea. A huge wave splashes the side of ship. Cargo transferred from tanker ship. Gasoline detail securing hose. Men having a snow ball fight on deck in snow storm. Planes astern. Ordnance men load machine guns during snow storm. F4U Corsair planes and AD-1 Skyraider spotted on deck. Snow on flight deck. F4U Corsair planes on snow covered deck.
President Roosevelt in a jeep in Casablanca, Morocco during World War II. A jeep with the President and officials moves along a dirt field, followed by three security personnel and a large sedan.Three soldiers at attention at the side of a path. Several soldiers and officers, on the other side of the path, salute as the President passes. A large contingent of American troops is lined up in formation. A motorcade of jeeps arrives. President Roosevelt is in the second jeep which displays an American flag and another flag (Presidential Seal?). American Sherman tanks parade in formation, four abreast. A brass band marches and plays.
U.S. Army liaison mission over Malabang in the Philippines Islands, during World War 2. A jeep is being driven up to the 25th Liaison Squadron Stinson L-5 Sentinel, at Dansalan Airstrip. The aircraft is serial number 42-99146 "Gayle Ann" of the "Guinea Short Lines." The crew of the aircraft lay out an aerial photograph on the tail for briefing. Captain Kellet, with a pen in his hand, huddles over the horizontal stabilizer discussing the mission and photograph, with pilot Tech Sgt. Loyd Herbert Summers Jr. as Staff Sergeant Felter stands next to them. The officers board the aircraft. (As they do so, a man is seen in the background, riding a horse. He stops short of the airplane and dismounts Sgt. Peterson checks the gasoline and secures the cap. Captain Kellet aboard the aircraft, makes a radio call to the local control. The L-5 takes off from the airstrip. The aircraft in flight over Dansalan Airstrip. Aerial views of inhabited areas in the region. Aerial views of Camp Keithley Headquarters, 10th Military District. 42-99146 in flight being filmed by airplane flying in formation.
Boys devise home-made diving bell in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. A boy is made to wear a diving bell on the head by another boy, in front of a building. A few men and women watch them. Weights tied on to a rope secured to the boy's waist. Three boys on a boat in a water body. The boy wearing the diving bell goes down the water. The boy under the water. Fishes moving under the water beside the boy. The boy reading from a book under the water. The boy comes up from the water. The boys on the boat help the boy up from the water.
Activities at Clark Air Base in Philippines. A pallet is loaded on a C-141A Starlifter aircraft. The load master secures the lock down clamp. K loader vehicle backs away from the aircraft. A U.S. Air Force pilot checks manifest sheets and boards the aircraft. A crewman stands near him. The flight crew loads personal gear aboard the aircraft and then board. A group of civilians board the aircraft. Other aircraft parked in the background.
The research vessel,"Knorr," at harbor in Woods Hole, Massachussets. Oceanographer Robert Duane Ballard and crews of "Knorr", and "Lulu" prepare for Caribbean expedition, by test diving the deep sea submersible, "Alvin" in local waters. Mr.Ballard discusses his techniques to study the evolution of the Earth's surface. Ballard leaves the Knorr, aboard a skiff, and proceeds to the mother ship,"Lulu", where the deep diving submersible, "Alvin" is kept. Crewmen make adjustments to the "Alvin" and lower it by winches and cables, through an opening in the "Lulu" deck. Ballard and his pilot enter the Alvin for an 8 hour operation check run. Rear view of Alvin bobbing in the open space within the Lulu. several smimming divers release lines from the Alvin. An operator aboard the Lulu clears the Alvin for a dive. The research vessel moves underwater. Underwater views of the Alvin. Interior views of the Alvin, showing instruments and meters. At 3000 meters depth, they are in complete darkness, and the pilot turns on lights. Ballard notes underwater features. A surge of sand and mud rises from the Alvin's propeller. He takes photographs of creatures and sea bottom. The Alvin surfaces after the dive and is met by swimmers who dive from the Lulu, and climb aboard to assist in the return and securing of the deepsea submersible in its berth aboard the mother vessel, "Lulu."
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