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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1915-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1940
Country: USA
Location: Kearny,Mt,New Jersey,New York City,NYC,RAinier,Seattle,Washington
TC Begins: 07:00:06
TC Ends: 07:02:07
Duration: 00:02:01
WWII - 1940, Twin Destroyers Launched; Troops & Equipment To Alaska; PT Boats; Winter Training 07:00:12 Champagne bottle presented to Mrs Thomas Edison for launching USS Edison (DD-439) at Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey. Bottle broken over bow, view of ship sliding into water. 07:00:24 Mrs Ruth E. Wallgren launches USS Ericsson (DD-440) at same shipyards, breaking bottle, ship sliding into water, men waving. 07:00:34 Title: Seattle, Wash. 75th Coast Artillery soldiers in winter gear w/ rifles on pier, boarding Army transport ship St. Mihiel up gangway, pan equipment on deck; soldiers & families wave as ship leaves dock for Alaska. 07:00:59 Title: New York, N.Y. Men in winter gear pose on decks of PT Boats. View from water of docked / moored “mosquito boats”, CU insignia of mosquito on torpedo. Boats on East River under bridge; view of NYC from across stern & wake. PT boats at speed past Statue of Liberty (brief), CU wake; lower Manhattan. GOOD 07:01:29 Title: Mt. Rainier, Wash. Army ski troops of 41st Division (in normal uniform) single file climb across slope w/ mountain in background, wishbone climb up slope & skiing down in training exercise. 07:01:49 Camouflage themselves w/ white sheets, fire rifles & machine guns. CU looking w/ binoculars. CU machine gun barrel. Pre-WW2; Destroyers; USA Homefront War Preparations; Navy; NOTE: Double launching was on 23Nov40.