A documentary film titled 'Along our Shores' on domestic activities of coast guards in the United States during World War II. U.S. Coast Guards march in formation. Ships underway at sea. A man looks through binoculars. U.S. fleet underway. Coast guards aboard a landing craft. They wade ashore. U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King seated at his desk with an official. He discusses with the official. He takes out the annual report on the progress of the U.S. Navy. Officials aboard a ship. The coast guards walk on a pier. They are trained at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. They study modern warfare techniques. A sign outside a building reads: 'United States Coast Guard Training Station'. Coast guards aboard a ship. Officials instruct and train them. Men row a boat with oars. Coast guards fire guns at a target.
Domestic activities of the United States Coast Guard in the United States during World War II. Posters on the wall of a building. Activities of the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS). Women working inside a building. A woman types a document. Other woman works in a radio room. Ships underway at sea. A coast guard watches enemy actions through binoculars. Officials discuss a wall map. They locate places and plan strategies.
Domestic activities of the United States Coast Guard in the United States during World War II. Coast guardsmen patrol a beach. Men seated in a car drive past on the beach. A man seated on a horse moving along the beach. A man walks on the beach. Smoke in the foreground from the burning of a ship. Men on the deck of a ship. They take an oath. Men aboard a motor boat. Men aboard a yacht and other ships underway at sea. Men aboard a life boat arrive at a beach. They carry the men rescued by them on stretchers.
'So's Your Old Man' depicts activities of older American men in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Recruitment of older men in coast guard service. A doctor examines an old man. The man seated with his wife in his house listening to a radio. He arrives at a building. 'US Coast Guard Volunteer Security Force' written on the top of a cabin. The man talks to other man seated in the cabin. Training being given to the older men. They march. Buildings along a side. The men seated in a class room. An officer explains a model to them. They practice drilling. They hit target boards with pistols. The men in coast guard uniforms stand in formation. An officer reviews them. Auxiliary Coast Guard patrol vessels. Men guard Liberty ships and warehouses. Women give them coffee and doughnuts.
A film titled: 'Cavalcade of the American Merchant Marine' depicts legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. Various large masted ships seen to represent historical ships of the 18th century and 19th century. A large masted ship underway at sea in the United States. Men work on the ship. They stand on the deck of the ship. Men sboard the ship during a heavy storm. Reeanctment of old merchant ships at port. Mountains in the background.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. Group of men gathered at a stream bed digging and panning for gold. Dramatization of a sailing ship leaving dock as gathered crowd of men, women, and children wave goodbye from dock during mid 1800's Gold Rush. Merchant Marine sailing ships underway at sea. Men working on a clipper ship. Views of tall sailing clipper ships at full sail and in storms with dramatization of crews battling to stay afloat during storm. Clipper ships round Cape Horn during the California Gold Rush of 1849 (dramatized). Fulton's steamship, the North River Steamboat, or Clermont, sails up the Hudson River. Smoke from the stacks of the steam ship. View of a steamship overtaking a sailing vessel at sea, as narrator describes the demise of the tall sailing ships after the arrival of the steamship. (World War II period).
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