U.S. Coast Guard Motion Picture Digest No. 2, 06/1945

About this film

Naval Photographic Center film #15901. Silent USGC film with title cards. Not in the greatest shape. National Archives description: "(Sound Narrative) MS AA crews firing on targets. MS Large blimp hangar, Lakehurst, New Jersey, with blimp inside. MS Blimp being taken from hangar for flight (SV). MCU Officers being lectured in flyers" room. MCU Officers disembarking from blimp as it lands. MS Navy balloon soaring. MCU Ground crew holding down Navy blimp L-19; same taking off (SV). MCU Pilot house; Navy blimp showing pilot & copilot.MS Ground crew men holding down blimp as it lands.MS Navy blimp taking off for patrol.MCU Pilot & copilot in cockpit; troops boarding Army transport for return to States, from Paris, France (July, 1945); REAR ADM. A.E. SMITH & U.S. Army officer in conference; SNB, BG. MS USCG cutter MACKINAW (bow view). MCU Coast Guard Cadets on board the MACKINAW during fireboat training period (many views). MCU Lowering fire boats over side of Coast Guard cutter. MCU Coast Guard men leaving ship in motor launch; USS MONTICELLO (AP-61) arriving in New York, with troops, from Europe; Navy blimp, BG. LS Empire State Building, showing damaged Army B-25 which crashed into sa…

Directors & creators

United States. Navy

Subjects

WWII, World War II, Airships, United States. Coast Guard, United States. Navy, USS Monticello (AP-61), USS Monticello, USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83), USCGC Mackinaw, Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.), Aircraft accidents, B-25 bomber, United States. -- Coast Guard -- History -- World War, 1939-1945, Naval Air Station (Lakehurst, N.J.), Aircraft Accidents -- New York, Aircraft Accidents -- New York (State) -- New York

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