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Fort Lewis Washington USA 1937 stock footage and images

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Women pick daffodils in a large outdoor garden and a military couple exchanges rings during a wedding in Orting, Washington.

A military wedding in Orting, Washington, United States. Women in costumes pick daffodils in a large daffodil flower field. Soldiers and officers gathered during the spring time wedding. Staff Sergeant William Melnick and Private Clara Owens, from Fort Lewis, exchange rings. Soldiers hold guns as they stand near. The newly married couple kisses. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, March 30
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067075
The military career of General Dwight D Eisenhower from 1926 to World War II

Film starts showing Dwight D. Eisenhower's diploma as honor graduate of the Army Command and Staff School, in 1926. Image of Major Eisenhower (in civilian clothes) Narrator says he was assigned to France, to prepare a guide book on American battlefields in Europe. Image of Eisenhower as a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff in the Philippines, where MacArthur was Commander-in-Chief of the Philippine army. Glimpse of headquarters building there. MacArthur in his office helping the Commonwealth of Philippines work out a plan for its military defense. Image of Lieutenant Colonel Eisenhower in 1939, serving as Executive Officer of the 15th Regiment, at Fort Lewis, Washington, View of the Regiment's Headquarters building. Scene shifts to 1940, showing German forces invading Holland and Belgium. German tanks are seen in action. German Junkers 87 Stuka dive bombers and Heinkel 111 bombers drop bombs. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen as Congress passed the Selective Service Act draft in the United States. Views of Lt. Col. Eisenhower as Chief of Staff of the Army 3rd Division and later as Chief of Staff of the Ninth Corps. Next, he is seen as Chief of Staff to General Walter kreuger, who in 1941 led the Third Army in the most realistic maneuvers held by American troops (The Louisiana maneuvers). Views of American troops engaged in those maneuvers. Image of Eisenhower as a Brigadier General. Views of the Pearl Harbor bombing on December 7th 1941.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033591
Lewis Douglas sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and confers with President Truman in Washington DC.

Lewis Douglas sworn in as Ambassador in Washington. Lewis Douglas confers with President of the United States Harry S Truman at White House. Lewis sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom by the State Department Chief of Protocol,Stanley Woodward. Acting Secretary of States Dean Gooderham Acheson congratulates Douglas and hands over credentials. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom William Averell Harriman congratulates Douglas.

Date: 1947, March 10
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073032
UMW President John Llewellyn Lewis addresses the gathering as coal strike ends in Washington DC.

Coal strike ends in Washington DC. President of the United Mine Workers (UMW) of America, John Llewellyn Lewis arrives at the UMW building. U.S. Senator Henry Styles Bridges also arrives. Photographers take photographs. Lewis and coal operators remain seated at office after the agreement. Lewis addresses the gathering. Bridges meets with Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Joseph William Martin for the settlement. Railroad loaded with coal moves on track.

Date: 1948, April 12
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073038
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, Labor leaders A. Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther, speak to reporters during "March on Washington"

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walking with organized Labor leader Walter Reuther, and African American leaders including John Lewis, arriving outside the White House in Washington DC. Press and photographers surround them. A. Philip Randolph speaks to the reporters. Mr. Roy Wilkins and Martin Luther King Jr., Walter Reuther, and John Lewis standing nearby. Representative of the Roman Catholic group commission speaks. Labor leader Walter Reuther speaks. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr makes a statement. Black American singers lead the crowd in singing "We shall overcome" in Civil Rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Thousands link arms and sing and sway together to the melody (during the March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom).

Date: 1963, August 28
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029521
U.S. Democratic Victory Dinner. Washington, D.C. March 4, 1937

A large crowd of the Democratic Party faithful, in formal dress, gather for a Victory Dinner, in the Willard Hotel, Washington, DC, to celebrate Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection in 1937. An orchestra plays "Happy Days Are Here Again." The President stands at a table (with a man assisting him) as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is escorted to his side. A battery of news photographers take their pictures. Mrs. Roosevelt speaks to President Roosevelt and then leaves. Scene shifts to banquet hall with guests seated at a long table, surrounded by others at round tables. The orchestra plays smooth dinner music. Waiters move among the guests. Reelected President Roosevelt chats with his Vice President, John Nance Garner, seated to his left.

Date: 1937, March 4
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050164