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Merchant Marine Officer candidates march and receive graduation certificates at the USMMA at Kings Point in New York.
Merchant Marine Officer candidates complete their graduation at the United States Merchant Marine Academy ( USMMA ) at Kings Point in New York, United States. The candidates march during a weekly review. An officer delivers a speech during the graduation ceremony. Graduation certificates are given to the candidates. Two officer candidates show their badges to their wives. The candidates passing in a review. 'The Last Full Measure' inscribed on a stone. A candidate pays tribute at the grave of a dead Marine officer. The candidates march.
America fully mobilized in World War II
Opening slate announces 11 million Americans to bear arms (in World War 2.). U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General George S. Marshall conversing with Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Ernest King. Next, Admiral King is seen standing with Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Lieutenant General Henry H. (Hap) Arnold, and Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the President of the United States. Scene shifts to a graduating class of cadets from the United States Military Academy, at West Point. They are seen receiving their diplomas. West Point cadets are also seen cheering at an athletic event and in several views of them marching in formations on different occasions. Views of cadets from the U.S. Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland, on parade and at a graduation ceremony in Dahlgren Hall, where each receives a diploma and they toss their hats into the air at the end of the ceremony. Next, ordinary citizen soldiers (mostly draftees) are seen marching in formation They participate in calisthenics en masse. Heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney, is seen leading an exercise session. Soldiers run over an obstacle. Next cadets are seen on parade in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, at Kings Point, New York. Some cadets are seen practicing escape from a burning vessel at sea. U.S. soldiers engage in field training that includes live weapons fire above their heads as they crawl under barbed wire on a training course. View of soldier firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun near the trainees. Another is firing a Browning M1919 air-cooled machine gun.
Training of seamen at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and Maritime Service Training Schools in the United States.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. The Maritime commission is created. A ship underway at sea. Men gather at a dock. A man watches through binoculars. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is opened at Kings Point in New York. Seamen are trained in the academy. They are also trained at the Maritime Service Training Schools. The seamen are given navigation and gunnery training. They are also trained in techniques of cargo handling. Men standing in uniform on the dock. They load supplies onto a ship and clean machinery. Men working on a control board. Men in a class room. An officer instructs them. They also learn to prepare food in a kitchen. They learn the work of a radio operator.
King Saud Ibn Abd al-Aziz, of Saudi Arabia, arrives in New York Harbor to 21 gun salute.
Naval ship fires 21 gun salute for Saudi Arabian monarch, King Saud Ibn Abd al-Aziz, arriving in New York Harbor on Liner, SS Constitution, at night. A coast guard vessel transfers the Royal Party to the Destroyer Willis A. Lee (DD-929) which carries them to the pier with other destroyers in escort. Statue of Liberty is seen. The king and party members are greeted at the dock by Henry Cabot Lodge. A cadillac limousine, carrying the King, arrives at the United Nations, in New York. King Saud leaves the car, enters the UN building where United Nations Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold meets him. and escorts him to the United Nations General Assembly. Delegates and dignitaries seated in a council hall. King Saud enters the hall and people applaud. King Saud addresses the general assembly. Dignitaries and delegates applaud after the speech. King Saud during the reception given by His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Al-Khayyal. Ambassador of Saudi Arabia. Dignitaries meet the King. Among those greeting him are UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, Doctor Charles Habib Malik, Foreign Minister of Lebanon,members of the Yemen delegation, and U.S. Ambassador Wadsworth, who traveled with the King from Saudi Arabia.
Role of the Jeep in U.S. military operations during World War II.
A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Waco CG-4A-WO glider is seen descending and landing in a grass field. Upon touchdown, its front pops open and and an army jeep drives out. USAAF C-47 aircraft are seen next, offloading jeeps pulling small artillery pieces, and infantry who move rapidly from the parked aircraft. Jeeps traversing a high hump in a dirt road. A jeep towing an M-3 Antitank Gun 37mm, and others driving through underbrush and bouncing over rough road while towing 37mm guns and trailers. Soldiers stepping from jeeps to set up machine guns. American soldiers playing a game of horse and rider, during a break in duties. Soldiers setting up mortars. Jeeps driving through bodies of water. Two M4A1 (76)W Sherman tanks, with cast steel hulls, drive into a stream. Troops setting up several 37mm guns on a river bank. Two soldiers in a communications jeep. Army officers perusing a map laid out on the hood of a jeep. U.S. field artillerymen using periscopic binoculars on tripods, to spot and direct gunfire. Military vehicles, including jeeps, moving across desert terrain. Artillery crews firing M59 (M2 Long Tom) 155mm guns. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft flying overhead. Jeeps in various roles, bouncing along in the desert and laying smoke screens. Jeeps equipped with M3 anti-aircraft guns and others with stretchers for wounded affixed to their sides. U.S. Army Ford GPA "Seep" amphibious jeeps plunging into water and continuing on as boats. A jeep production and assembly line in a U.S. factory showing stages of assembly and finished jeeps driving out of the plant into yards containing hundreds of them. A convoy of jeeps driving over a bridge, and others carrying a U.S. military brass band in a parade in England. A Hollywood actress (Gloria Swanson?) being lifted into a jeep by several men. Glimpse of an unidentified actress with an American soldier, in a jeep. Hollywood stars, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy clowning in the front seat of a jeep with Desi Arnaz and two women riding in the back. Several jeeps carrying these and other Hollywood personalities during a war bond parade in Washington DC. The Capitol looming in the background as the jeeps move away from it toward the camera. Jeeps being prepared for transport to overseas destinations. Some being enclosed in wooden crates and placed on rail cars. Jeeps being hauled by cranes and placed aboard ships. Landing crafts mechanized (LCMs) transporting infantry and vehicles, including jeeps. An M4A1 Sherman tank driving out of a landing craft into surf. A jeep being driven onto beach at Adak,in the Aleutians,from a landing craft of the USS J.Franklin Bell (AP-34), in 1942. In 1943, this transport ship was reclassified as APA-16.) American troops with jeep on a South Pacific island in World War 2. A soldier on motorcycle, skids in mud on road in North Africa, and jeeps drive past him. American soldiers ride camels and some drive in a jeep near the Great pyramid and Sphinx in Egypt. Jeeps seen in China, with Generals Joseph Stilwell and Claire Chennault. One parked next to a Flying Tiger P-40 airplane. Soldiers in a jeep in Alaska, next to a tent and sign pointing to "Tokyo." Local tribesmen literally carrying a jeep, on long poles, across a river in Timor. General Douglas MacArthur, accompanied by staff officers, being driven in a jeep along a jungle road in New Guinea, past a line of local tribesmen. Wendell Wilkie, serving as Ambassador-at-large, during the war, speaks to U.S. officers in a jeep. Britain's King George VI in a jeep followed by another carrying Queen Elizabeth. President Franklin D. Roosevelt riding in a jeep to review troops. He removes his hat as they pass the American flag. Sign on a building in North Africa reads "Bizerte." General George S. Patton, standing in a jeep during a victory parade in North Africa. Soldiers at an outdoor religious service during the war with the hood of a jeep serving as a make shift altar.Various views of jeeps driving with soldiers in them.
King Faisal is escorted by dignitaries at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia during a visit to New York. The King arrives by car at the United Nations headquarter in New York. Flags shown at front of building with focus on the flag of Saudi Arabia. The King steps from the car in front of the headquarter and is greeted by dignitaries. Men take pictures. King Faisal and the dignitaries walk into the headquarters. A spokesman, in Arabic, narrates a summary of the Kings visit to Washington and New York.. This is followed by brief scenes of highlights from the trip, including arrival by helicopter; the White House and welcome banner in English and Arabic; official trumpeters playing; the King and President Johnson; Army honor guard formation and cannons firing salutes; view of the White House; U.S. Marines and soldiers on parade;.The King and President Johnson on steps of the White House the evening of his formal reception; Military displays by the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard); and fireworks.
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