Forty thousand United States soldiers and National Guardsman of the third Army in military combined arms training maneuvers at Camp Shelby,and Desoto National Forest, Wiggins, Mississippi. U.S. Army Air Corps BT-9 Yale aircraft flying over tents and seen flying overhead. U.S. Army written on the wings of the planes. Troops moving in trucks and running across a field. Teams of horses pulling field artillery. Horses cooling off in canal water after the exercise. U.S. Army M2 Light tanks in maneuvers. Gun crews firing machine guns and field artillery pieces.
Girls in swimsuits stand with their slide boards at the Morgans Beach in Enfield, Maine. Girls climb the ramp to reach the toboggans. Girls sit on the slider boards and slide one after the other from a 60 foot incline, dashing into a cold stream pond at 40 miles per hour.
A large crowd gathers to honor aviator Douglas Corrigan after his historic flight from Floyd Bennett Air Field in Brooklyn, New York to Ireland, in Boston Massachusetts. A decorated public procession of cars drives towards a public ceremony venue. Large crowd cheers for him and raises banners. An old woman plays piano. Several streamers and banners hang from buildings. Corrigan addresses the crowd at the public ceremony.wards a public ceremony venue. Immense crowd cheers for him and raises banners. An old woman plays piano. Several streamers and banners hang from buildings. Corrigan addresses the crowd at the public ceremony.
U.S. Army beats U.S. Navy in a traditional football match in Baltimore, Maryland. General George C. Marshall, General Arnold and Admiral King arrive and take their seats. Army and navy troops march marking the start of the traditional ceremony. Large number of spectators from army, navy and other civilians take their seats in the stands. Navy cadets in the ground cheer for the army. Army soldiers sing songs for the navy. The football match starts. Players give a tough competition to each other as referee watches. Crowd watches and cheers. Army wins the match beating navy by 30-7. (World War II period).
Supreme Court Associate Justice Jackson swears in Edward R. Stettinius as United States Secretory of States, at an official ceremony in Washington DC. After swearing in, General George C. Marshall and others shake hands and congratulate him. Stettinius addresses the assembly on a microphone. He then moves into his office, sits at his desk and reads files.
Documentary titled 'Challenge to Democracy' depicts relocation of Japanese Americans and people of Japanese ancestry due to perceived security reasons, in United States during World War II. People of Japanese origin moved by railroad train to a relocation house in Arkansas and at Heart Mountains, Wyoming (internment camps). Japanese civilians walk out of the railroad train at a station, carrying their luggage. Houses, barracks and Quonset huts at the relocation center. A military police guard with rifle on duty. A Japanese family enters its compartment and finds fully furnished comfortable house inside. A Japanese worker works on lumber. A small family inside a house. People dine together at a large mess hall. A car moves in the desert to plan a site for relocation center. Workers clear bush, level soil and do plantation using tractors. Farmers produce vegetables and fruits. Tractors plow farmlands. Farmers hoe crops and collect harvest. Harvest loaded in trucks and sent to mess of relocation house. Japanese mechanic repairs truck, lumbers at work. Workers paid for their work done at relocation house at an office. People inside a Community Enterprise Business Store.
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