Overcoats are distributed in Kansas City, Missouri. Businessman Louis A. Cumonow takes a look at overcoats. Unemployed and needy lined up on a sidewalk to get the overcoats. A sign reads 'Overcoats for needy'. Men wearing overcoats pose. Cumonow shakes hands with an old man.
An Elks Convention in Los Angeles, California. A parade led by a band as it plays various musical instruments. Open flag and umbrella decorated automobiles lined up on a field. A sign on the umbrellas read 'B.P.O.E. no.3 Philla'. Men mounted on horse back as they move forward in the parade. Soldiers march on foot as they carry American flag.
First scene shows the State Capitol building (350 State St, Salt Lake City, UT 84103) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Next a sign identifies a military separation center in Fort Douglas during post-war demobilization. Soldiers in uniform are being processed for separation from the U.S. Army. A sergeant salutes an officer and receives his discharge papers. Narrator identifies Corporal Kirk being processed by a sergeant. He later salutes and receives his discharge papers. Corporal Kirk steps down the stairs from a house, arm and arm with his girlfriend. They are seen enjoying a soda together. Next, they shop together for a civilian hat for him. Then they share shopping for a complete civilian wardrobe. They share time skiing together. Glimpse of some national parks in Utah and of the great Salt Lake. View of people floating easily in the dense waters of the salt lake. Views of the Mormon Salt Lake Tabernacle (50 N W Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT 84150). The couple stroll streets of Salt Lake City. They visit the Veterans' Information Service. He sits with an advisor. View of Provo, Utah and the Geneva Steel Company there. Exterior views of the industrial steel plant. Hot coke being discharged into special rail cars. Steel plant operations with fiery molten steel being poured from Ladles. Billets of steel being formed. Open rail cars full of ore at the Columbia Iron Mine, Cedar City, Utah. A steam shovel loading ore into a truck. Coal mined and moving on conveyers. Miners leaving a mine in open box cars. Miners in rail cars entering a mine. A sign reading: "Welcome, Binghan Canyon, Home of the World's largest Open Cut Copper Mine, Drive Carefully!" Views of the open mine with numerous terraces cut into the walls. A steam shovel digging and loading copper ore into rail cars that carry it away across rail bridges. A sign for the Eitel-McCullough, Company, Inc. where radar tubes are currently being made. Several women employees in the plant.
World War II veterans in Utah, United States. A sign for the city of 'Ogden'. Traffic on the streets. A sign reads 'Entering the Cedar City'. Farmers till and plow farm land. Cattle graze on farm lands. Expansive wide views of farm valley landscape with snow covered mountains in the distance. A war veteran talks to Veteran's Department official. The veteran meets the Dean at the University of Utah campus. He strolls on the tree lined sidewalks of the University campus. He enrolls for a course at the university and attends lectures.
A film titled 'Soldiers of the sea' about the training of United States Marines. Aerial view of a Marine Corps base in San Diego, California. A car enters through a gate. A poster reads 'US Marines'. A Marine talks to men near the poster. A sign outside an office reads 'Recruiting officer'. A recruit takes an oath. He gets a haircut. Uniform being issued to the recruit. A Marine blows a bugle. Recruits get up and put on their clothes. The recruits in a classroom. They are taught about various parts of a ship with the help of a model of a ship. A sign reads 'Never say you to an officer' as recruits learn military etiquettes. They learn to prepare a casemate hammock.
A film about training of United States Marines in San Diego, California. Recruits learn the details of squad formation as they perform a drill. They receive bayonet instructions. Two men demonstrate the use of bayonets during a hand to hand combat. The recruits row a whaleboat across a river.
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