Wounded and recovering veteran soldiers in the United States learn new skills and practice physical therapy after World War 1. Exterior of a building. Recuperating U.S. Army soldiers accompanied by nurses leave the building by way of a long ramp. Vehicles drive past the building. Interior of an office. An assignment officer interviewing soldiers. The soldiers operate machine tools and a pedal-driven saw. A man with bandaged eyes making wicker furniture. A display of lamps and other small articles. Disabled veterans walk along a hallway. Men exercising in a gymnasium. A photographer sets up a studio portrait of a soldier.
Panorama of business district Tacoma in Washington, United States. Aerial view of buildings. A drawbridge. Ships at anchor. Pacific Avenue, the main business artery of Tacoma. Horse-drawn vans and pedestrian traffic. Several parks and open spaces in the city. Residential areas in the city. Point Defiance Park. Exterior of several buildings. Men walking in parks and towards the buildings. Complete change of scene, from Tacoma, to views of the first Thurston County Courthouse, in Olympia, Washington, where the State Legislature met in a new East Wing, from 1905 to 1927. (Aka the old Capitol).
A film on uses of dynamite in the United States. Use of explosives for advancement of agriculture. An area is cleared for agriculture by exploding it with dynamite. Smoke rises from the explosion. Men watch the explosion. A ditch is dug with the help of dynamite. An old church building is exploded with dynamite to make a new building. Smoke rises from the explosions. Ice jams are broken by exploding.
French fliers get new U.S. warplanes in North Africa during World War II. United States Army Air Forces General Carl Andrew Spaatz and Major General James Harold Doolittle present at an air base. A soldier holding the U.S. flag. Soldiers march in formation. Officers review the soldiers and salute them. Aircraft parked at the airbase.
College boys practice crew rowing in Washington, United States. Students including National Champions from University of Washington Husky team seen at a dock carrying oars. They board crew boats. The boys row the boats during their first training session of the new spring season, despite World War 2.
The 23rd Reconnaissance Squadron National Guard being trained in Springfield, Illinois. The squadron gets new six ton armored cars. They learn 'Blitzkrieg' method of war. Men aboard the cars advancing on a field. Aircraft in flight overhead. They aim anti-aircraft guns from the cars at the aircraft.
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