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The 1944 U.S. Presidential election in World War II
On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.
Americans voting in U.S. cities during 1944 Presidential election; Roosevelt defeats Dewey.
Presidential elections in the United States. Americans voting in various cities. People lined up outside building to vote. Buildings along the sides of the street. Acts and figures pasted on a board. People reading the news. President Roosevelt casting his vote at the Town Hall in Hyde Park, New York. Tabulation of the figure. Crowd at Times Square follow the returns. A board reads: 'National Broadcasting Company Election chart'. Announcements of figures on radio. A woman writing the figure on a board. Announcement of results at the Republican National Headquarters. Governor Dewey conceded defeat and President Roosevelt receives congratulations at Hyde Park.
Newly naturalized Americans recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the 1944 “I Am An American Day” (WWII)
More than a million people attend the “I Am An American Day” citizenship ceremony in Central Park in New York City, during World War 2. Over 150,000 people attended the ceremony as newly naturalized American citizens. Native American Indians in traditional dress and women and men in military uniform attend the ceremony. Flags of various nations are flown. Wounded Army soldiers and wounded Navy sailors arrive as guests of honor. New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia shakes hands with servicemen, giving tribute to their heroism during World War II. Immigrants stand up to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America as part of the naturalization ceremony. Speaker recites the Pledge of Allegiance, which predates the inclusion of "under God" which was added later in the 1950s.
United States Coast Guard crews and Army troops during debarkation practice prior to D-Day in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
United States Coast Guard pre invasion activities in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States during World War II. A United States Army jeep being hoisted aboard a ship. American Coast Guardsmen on board the ship underway in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States in January , 1944. A Landing Craft Tank along side a ship as Army troops get onto it. LCT pulls away. Various United States Coast Guard transports underway in the Bay. A man at a steering wheel. Various landing craft underway,practicing in the bay. A soldier on the beach directs as landing craft approach the beach. Ramps of landing crafts being lowered and troops move off the craft as they practice debarkation of troops prior to an invasion. Various boats seen in this film include: Higgins boats from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) and USS Chilton (APA-38); and Landing Crafts Large, USS LCI(L)-505 and 523. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
United States Navy sailors watch a movie about naval warfare in the United States; some scenes from World War 2 Pacific battles
A dramatized film about the training of U.S. Navy recruits at various naval training centers in the United States. The training and life of United States Navy recruits at U.S. Navy training center in Bainbridge, Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois and Naval Base San Diego in California. The sailors watch a movie which depicts historic navy sailors on old masted sailing ships as they fire naval guns at another ship. The reenactment is of a 18th century or 19th century naval battle. The ship being hit by the enemy begins to sink. Sailors from the two ships in combat aboard a ship. Men jump into the sea and try their best not to give up the ship. A tall masted ship sinking. The naval gun canons aboard a ship being fired on another ship. Scene shifts to a mix of both authentic footage and several dramatized World War 2 combat footage scenes in the Pacific, circa 1943, 1944, or 1945, with U.S. Navy sailors on board ships firing at incoming Japanese aircraft. The enemy aircraft being shot down and they fall into the sea. A sailor clicks a picture of Japanese girls against a statue of Buddha. Narrator speaks about Navy recruitment. Sailors lined up on an open field during a ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Film about production of war materiel in the United States during World War II
A war production worker in a tire manufacturing plant during World War 2 is seen handling a very large rubber tire. Tires are stacked as high as the ceiling in a warehouse. Closeup of countless artillery shells standing side by side with their noses pointing upward. Small arms cartridges spilling from a hopper. Rolls of ammunition being packed into steel boxes by women in a factory. Two army officers watch an M3 Army half track leaving a factory. Lower sections of M7 Priest Howitzer Motor Carriages built on M3 Lee medium tank chassis, are seen leaving the American Locomotive Company factory on a railroad. Their turrets have not yet been installed. One of them is marked as the 50 thousandth manufactured at that facility. M2 medium tanks leaving a factory. M24 Chaffee tanks driving out of a factory in 1944. M10 tank destroyers (3-inch Gun Motor Carriages M10) driving in a parking field. A field full of many M4 Sherman tanks. New jeeps driving out of a factory. A yard filled with parked jeeps. New B-17 bombers being towed out of a Boeing factory. One of them has serial number 44-6519. (Assigned to the 602nd Bomb Squadron, 602nd Bomb Group at Northampstead, Hertfordshire England, It was downed by antiaircraft flak fire over Nienberge, NW of Munster,Germany on 28 October, 1944.) Engines moving on an overhead crane in a factory. Wooden power boats under construction. A huge stack of pipes in an outdoor storage yard. Heavy containers being placed on wooden shipping pallets by fork lifts. Anti-aircraft guns being transported on a railroad train pushed by a steam locomotive. Numerous 105mm covered howitzers lined up with barrels crossing one another. Rows of parked Sherman tanks. Column of parked army field ambulances. A yard filled with parked army vehicles. Crane at work in an industrial plant yard filled with pipes and building materials. Petroleum workers rotating valves on oil pipelines. Men placing fueling pipes into open railroad tank cars. A rail yard fulled with tank cars. Another rail yard with numerous tracks full of freight cars and steam locomotives. A crane moving 55 gallon drums in a petroleum storage yard.
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