U.S. General Joseph Taggart McNarney rides across two new bridges over the Rhine in Germany. Two bridges over river Rhine. One bridge for automobile traffic. General arrives by car and crosses the bridge. Board reads 'General George C Marshall Bridge, constructed by Engineer Special Service Regiment'. General arrives as officers greet him. Train arrives and leaves. New railroad being observed by General and other officers.
Chinese army leaves Shanghai for Manchuria, China. Chinese troops delouse themselves by using Dichloro Diphenyl Trichliroethane (DDT) over each others head and clothes to get ready for re-sailing on U.S. landing crafts. Troops carry equipment and luggage aboard crafts.
Sports in United States. Men's final 220 yard ice skate race and Women's 230 yard final race in Minnesota, United States. Men's final 880 yard race. Girls race in snow shoes at Lewiston, Maine. Women with ice shoes, a girl falls at the beginning of the race. Men's race and pole vault at Madison Square Garden in New York.
British wives of U.S. soldiers arrive in United States. USS Argentina. Women aboard the ocean liner talk. Nurses tend the children. Children play in a nursery aboard the ship. Ship arrives at port of New York. Women debark with children. Relatives and husbands of women welcome them. Men and women embrace and kiss. Man holds a child. A child cries.
U.S. explorer Richard E. Byrd's 3rd expedition to Antarctica. Team of workers constructing a large wooden building at Little America III. Condor seaplane seen behind the building. A tractor pulls sleds loaded with fuel drums. Boxes lying on snow. Camera placed on a tripod. Supplies being moved by dog sled. A tractor tows sled full of luggage.
U.S. explorer Admiral Richard Byrd's Third Antarctic expedition. A Beechcraft SD-17S Staggerwing aircraft, fitted with skis, is frozen in ice. Men try to move it to no avail. So they rig an elaborate set of ropes and a block and tackle which finally enables them to break the seal of the skis to the ice. Several men then pull the airplane forward to a desired location. 'US Antarctic Services' written on the fuselage of the plane.
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