Battalion of the U.S. 310th Engineers operate a sawmill at Archangel (Arkhangelsk) Russia, during the Allied North Russia Intervention (AKA the Polar Bear Expedition) in World War 1. Rafts of logs floating in the River Divina, near a saw mill in Archangel. Workers maneuver the logs to a ramp at the mill. Inside, the logs pass through giant saws and are cut into lumber. Boards sliding out of the mill to the ground below, where workers load them onto horse carts and drag them back into a large storage area filled with stacked lumber. U.S. Army soldiers inspect the operations, among the working villagers. [Footage from the United States Army 85th Division, 339th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force North Russia, participating as part of the Triple Entente forces, in the so-called "Polar Bear Expedition." Two thirds of the soldiers were from Michigan.]
Russian women and a few men, work together to remove stumps from a field in Archangel (Arkhangelsk) Russia, where trees were recently harvested for lumber. They dig with picks and shovels and uproot a stump. Then a group of about 25 women works in unison to roll the huge stump away. An American soldier stands nearby as they work. [Footage from the United States Army 85th Division, 339th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force North Russia, participating as part of the Triple Entente forces, in the so-called "Polar Bear Expedition." Two thirds of the soldiers were from Michigan.] (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A trolley car passes through the town of Arkhangelsk, Russia (also known as Archangel). U.S. sailors and soldiers are hanging out partially from the front and rear doors of the streetcar. A group of local people watch the trolley as it passes. [Footage from the United States Army 85th Division, 339th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force North Russia, participating as part of the Allied North Russia Intervention of World War 1. Two thirds of the soldiers were from Michigan.] (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A British DH-4 (De Havilland) airplane taking off. Tent and building in the background. A man runs on the field as the plane leaves ground. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The return of "Carlson's Raiders," to Pearl Harbor following their successful Makin Raid in World War 2. View from a high point overlooking a wharf at Pearl Harbor, as the USS Nautilus (SS-168) approaches. The wharf is crowded with a military honor guard, a reception committee of high ranking naval officers, and other well-wishers. (Unrelated sequence inserted, of a surfaced submarine, as it fires its deck gun and smoke arises in the sea from a burning ship in the distance.) Scene shifts back to Pearl Harbor, again. This time it shows the USS Argonaut (SS-166) docked, and Admiral Chester Nimitz boarding the submarine and shaking hands with Lieutenant Commander John R. Pierce, USN, its Commanding Officer. Major James Roosevelt, USMCR, (President Roosevelt's son) who is Executive Officer of the Second Raider Battalion (Carlson's Raiders) salutes Nimitz, who then shakes hands with him. Scene shifts again, to deck of the USS Nautilus, where Admiral Nimitz, holding Japanese war trophies from the Makin Raid, discusses them with a young officer from the Second Raider Battalion. View of arms and equipment of the Marines on the submarine deck. Sailors transport a wounded Marine on a litter. Marine Raiders begin to leave the submarine and walk past a military honor guard with rifles at parade rest.
Shows a class of 245 Medical Petty Officers on their Convocation (Graduation ceremony) at a Maritime Service Training Station in United States. Petty officers march in columns at a dock area, in preparation for assignments on merchant ships and cargo vessels that had been under manned in medical staff.
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