Admiral Hyman Rickover is honored aboard the USS Nautilus in Groton,Connecticut. Participating VIPs include: French Ambassador Herve Alphand; Secretary of US-Navy(SECNAV) William B. Franke; President of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation.Carleton Shugg; and Vice Admiral(VADM) Hyman G. Rickover. They arrive aboard the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) for the ceremony. Vice Admiral Rickover is saluted by Navy officers. standing on a podium set up on deck of the submarine. Officers and men on the Nautilus stand at attention. LT. J.F. Laboon, JR. Chaplain, gives a short invocation. Commander of Nautilus, Lando W. Zech, introduces Vice Admiral Grenfell who steps up to the mike. French Ambassador Alphand gives remarks. SECNAV gives his address and presents the Distinguished Service Medal to VADM Rickover.
Golfer Byron Nelson wins at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club in Chicago, Illinois. People watch golfer Byron Nelson playing to win the first prize money in George May's All-American Open Golf Championship. Spectators watch Nelson play.
A Czechoslovak politician meets Harry Warner in Burbank, California. Politician Jan Masaryk, the son of the first President of Czechoslovakia, says to Polish American studio executive Harry Warner that the U.S. screen industry is an important safeguard for democracy.
The U.S. Congress adapts Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924. Congressmen pose on the steps of a building in Washington DC. A close view of officials standing on the steps. A Japanese official.
U.S. WAC (Women's Army Corps) MP (Military Police) in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia during World War II. Military women of the WACs with MP brassards run from barracks through a gate marked 'WAC Military Police'. WACs march in formation. A WAC stands in front of a traffic sign as others pass.
U.S. WAC (Women's Army Corps) MP (Military Police) in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia during World War II. WACs in fatigues practice judo on a field.
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