Duck racing in Seattle, Washington. A few women holding ducks on leash. People stand behind and watch. The women walking the ducks by the side of an indoor swimming pool. A signboard over a counter reads 'Place Your Bets, Pari-Mutuel'. Men and women standing in a line at the counter. The women wearing swimming dresses placing the ducks in their respective lanes in the pool during a race. The ducks swimming in the pool. The women swimming behind the ducks. Men sitting beside the pool watch the race. A man picks up the duck that reaches the other side of the pool first. The man with the winner duck and the woman.
Olympic diving coaching in Santa Barbara, California. Female springboard diver Marjorie Gestring beside a swimming pool. Fred Cady, the coach, with Marjorie Gestring and another springboard diver, 13 year old boy Norman Sper Jr. The coach explains a diagram of diving pattern to the divers. Marjorie Gestring and Norman Sper ascend a diving platform. Gestring takes a dive from the board followed by Sper. Both divers execute several more dives one after the other including a back dive. Marjorie and teenage diver Norman standing on the diving board side by side. Both of them diving into the swimming pool.
Aftermaths of a flood in Springfield, Massachusetts. Several newspaper headlines about the damage caused by the flood in Massachusetts. WPA (Works Progress Administration) men on roads clearing debris. The men clear mud from the roads with snowplows. Bricks on a road during repaving work. The men during reconstruction work on the streets. A man on a telephone pole repairing wires. A man clearing debris in front of a house. A man washing the door of the house. Few men outside houses. A man moving furniture from the second story of a building surrounded by water. A man washing the furniture. Damaged houses and buildings. Furniture outside the houses. Damaged buildings on the shore of a water body. A few men among the debris. Buildings surrounded with water. A vehicle half sunk in water. A few men beside the vehicle. View of the vehicle beside a few trees and buildings surrounded by water and men in waist deep water. (Great Depression period)
Flood relief operations in Springfield, Massachusetts. A vehicle half sunk in water. A few men beside the vehicle. View of the vehicle beside a few trees and buildings surrounded by water and men in waist deep water. WPA (Works Progress Administration) men sewing garments as part of the flood relief work. Heaps of garments in a room. Men trying on the garments. Few children wearing clothes. WPA men delivering food aid and clothes to people during the flood relief work. People waiting in bread lines are provided with food. WPA men stacking things in the back of a truck. The truck moving on a street in water. Men carrying things to houses. A dog with pups. Several dogs on the street. A kitten taken in a basket. Babies in small beds. Nurses taking care of the babies. A baby is fed milk from a bottle. A baby is given a bath. The nurses bath the babies in small tubs. Flood waters flowing among trees. Water gushing through the streets damaging buildings and houses.
U.S. Army 77th Division in the Pacific Theater during the Ryukyu campaign of World War II. U.S. Army Chaplain Corps flag and the U.S. flag on a ship's mast. Men of U.S. Army 306th Infantry Regiment relaxing on the deck of a ship. One of the men playing a guitar. A group of men playing with a monkey. A man getting a haircut. The men cleaning rifles. Ration distributed to the soldiers on the deck. The soldiers seated on the deck. An officer briefing the soldiers using a relief map of Okinawa. A Chaplain conducts religious services aboard the ship. The soldiers stand with joined hands.
U.S. Army 77th Infantry Division in the Ryukyu Islands during the Ryukyu campaign of World War II. A vessel underway at sea en route to the Ryukyu Islands. Soldiers on landing crafts underway at sea. LVTs (Landing Vehicle Tracked) heading towards a beach. Soldiers unload from the LVTs onto the beach. 305th and 306th Infantry Regiment troops advance inland from the beach. A small building. Two soldiers holding guns in prone position on the side of a road. The soldiers fire the guns. The troops load and fire 81mm mortars. The soldiers standing behind shut their ears. The troops load a 155mm howitzer. The howitzer is fired from beneath a camouflage net. One of the soldiers shuts his ears. Several soldiers on a field and LVTs parked in view. Men of the 304th Field Artillery Battalion remove shells from cartons.
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