Soviet Civil Defense primer illustrating civilian protection and post-bombing recovery, in World War 2. Soviet antiaircraft guns firing and searchlights combing the sky. Animated view of German Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber illuminated by searchlights. Scene shifts to interior of a bomb shelter where women and men appear relaxed. Suddenly they all rise and don personal gas masks. Persons from outside being carefully admitted to a special shelter through an airtight door. They are examined as they enter. Some are medically treated. Outdoors, workers in protective gear sprinkle material on hazardous areas. Citizens are permitted out of a shelter, while still wearing their gas masks. Hazmat teams decontaminate areas outside using water and special chemicals. They wash building exteriors and dispense chemicals from a truck. Recovery workers reinforce a building containing a bomb shelter and then work rapidly to clear away debris from the shelter doorway. Workers in a steel mill resume normal wartime production.
Allied amphibious assault forces organizing in Portland Harbor, England, prior to the invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. U.S. trucks loaded with equipment and supplies, for the invasion force, being driven on a road. A group of soldiers stands at a side of the road. A vehicle loaded with supplies is driven past the soldiers. View from atop the Verne Citadel, Portland, of ships and invasion craft anchored in the harbor. several vessels moving about in the harbor.
Arrival of displaced persons and refugees of World War 2 in New York, after the war. Men, women, and children arriving at New York City on May 20, 1946 after a voyage that departed Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. People greet relatives at the dock in New York. Two young men and a girl stand together and show the concentration camp tattoos on their arms. The tattoo numbers are A9496 on the young man with the hat, A13889 on the girl, and B3073 on the young man without a hat. The young man with tattoo B3073 is Berel Gola (later called Bernard Gola) a 20 year old Jewish man from Poland. He had been imprisoned by the Nazis at Treblinka and at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where he received the tattoo. A woman and a man holding a young girl stand. Women holding children stand by. A man holding a young child. People debarking from the ship. People crowd at the dock. They meet their relatives. People stand behind a fence. A woman greets her relative. An emotional woman cries when reunited with relatives.
Women SPARS (United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve) getting ready for a class in the United States, during World War 2. A woman looks into a mirror and gets ready in the Coast Guard (CG) uniform. She puts on her badges. The woman poses wearing the CG uniform. She helps another woman to put on her jacket. The woman picks up the United States Coast Guard (USCG) cap and looks at the cap. The another woman holds the cap and wears it. SPARS attending a class. SPARS officer seated at a desk. 'US Coast Guard Established 1790' written on a blackboard. The officer points on the blackboard using a pencil. She turns back and briefs SPARS seated in the class.
SPARS (United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve ) learn swimming in the United States, as part of their training during World War 2. The women in swim suits seated on a bench talking. They learn swimming. An instructor instructs them in the foreground. The women practicing. One of them swims in the pool. They come out of the pool.
SPARS (United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve) in the United States, during World War 2. Uniformed women in the U.S.Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) step from a bus in a major city with skyscrapers. Two of them are seen standing next to a Coast Guard officer, who appears to write them local passes. Two SPARS women operate telephone switchboards.SPARS
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