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U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team members practicing Hawaiian music and dancing, during their time at Camp Shelby, Mississippi in World War II
Members of the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team (comprising Americans of Japanese ancestry) practice Hawaiian music and dance intended to entertain the troops, during World War 2. Several of the group take turns imitating hula dancers, as the musicians play. Numerous views of the men dancing. Musicians, including one playing guitar and another with ukulele, are seen at the end of the clip. (Note: Under auspices of Mr. Earl Finch, a businessman from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a similar group of 442nd soldiers, coming through Camp Shelby, was formed into the "Shelby Serenaders,"later in the war. Finch also created the “Aloha” USO in Hattiesburg, and did many other things to make life more pleasant for members of the 442nd during their training times at Camp Shelby.)
American made automobiles are exported to foreign countries. A Studebaker sedan travels over dirt roads on Catalina Island off California.
Workers in a Studebaker automobile factory move a fully wooden crated new automobile on an overhead hoist. It is labeled "Studebaker Automobiles" on it's side. Views of crated cars bound for different destinations overseas. Seen are those headed to: Buenos Aires, Capetown, Melbourne, and Cairo. Next, a Studebaker sedan car is seen raising lots of dust as it races at high speed over a dirt road on Catalina Island, off the coast of California. The driver is trying to climb a 1500 foot hill over a distance of 3 miles, as fast as he can. His car is seen negotiating hairpin turns during the ascent and finally arriving at the summit.
Interviews of 11 year old Kenneth Young's father after the son returns home safely after his kidnapping in California.
Kenneth Young kidnapped from his residence in Beverly Hills, California. The house in Beverly Hills. Exterior of the house from where 11 year old Kenneth Young was kidnapped. The ladder which was used by the kidnapper. A burglar alarm at the entrance of the house. His father says that he paid a quarter million dollars ransom to get the boy back safely. Media people run for an interview. Kenneth Young looks out from a window of the house.
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. and other staff members of the Peace Corps enter a building and Shriver speaks in the U.S.
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. , the Director of the Peace Corps in the U.S. Staff members and volunteers of the Peace Corps. The volunteers sitting in a room. A sign: 'Peace Corps Week'. Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. and other staff members of the Peace Corps enter a building. Mr. Shriver addresses the crowd. People on streets as Sergeant Shriver speaks.
U.S. Navy Department develops ships and boats for amphibious assaults during World War II.
Film opens showing the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. Next are views of the U.S. Navy and Munitions building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC (Sign on building reads: "Navy Department.") View of Senior Naval officers in a conference room in the building. Next scene shows a group of military planners discussing a three dimensional model of a Pacific island with landing ships and landing craft near the shore. A group of Army and Navy officers discuss documents as they stand in front of a huge wall map of the world. They walk together and point to the Mediterranean portion of the map. A large sign points toward "Naval Research Lab." Inside a Navy Commander and Lieutenant Commander confer over some maps with two civilians. Next, a room full of draftsmen (including a woman) are seen bent over drawing boards. Two engineers bend over an instrumented cutaway of a ship's hull. Senior military officers sit around a conference table. American and British flags are placed at the end of the room. Closeup of two British officer attendees. Civilian engineers and designers gather around a table. Workers at a shipyard gather on and around a Navy ship that displays a battery of four antiaircraft guns. Men in a foundry preparing to pour molten metal from a ladle into a mold. A milling machine taking a deep cut on the edge of a steel plate. A large engine being moved by an overhead conveyor in a factory. Men fabricating boats in a factory. View, from a moving platform, of men painting a newly manufactured Higgins boat (Landing Craft vehicle personnel, LCVP). A new Landing Ship Tank being launched at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. USS LSTs 340 and 341 at their launchings in Portsmith.
U.S. soldiers train for amphibious assaults in World War II.
American soldiers are assembled on outdoor stands on a sand beach in World War 2. Next, soldiers are seen climbing down rope nets on a stand designed to simulate leaving a troop ship. Brief closeup of some of the soldiers descending the nets. Change of scene to a sandy area shows soldiers in a simulated landing craft rushing out of it in a practice drill. Soldiers in wheeled vehicles simulating landing craft armed with machine guns. Troops, in live fire training, crawl over water-filled ditches as a trainer fires a Browning M1917 30cal machine gun across the area. Shells bursting in the area. A soldier stretches himself in prone position across a barbed wire fence. Other soldiers climb over him to cross the fence. Several combat soldiers holding rifles which are used as a ladder for climbing a barbed entanglement.
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