Activities of Coast Guard troops aboard USS Wakefield in the United States. A get together of the Coast Guard troops aboard the ship. A band plays musical instruments. The troops in mass numbers aboard the ship. Some of them dance. Two boxers fight. Food is cooked in a kitchen. Bread , butter and potatoes are used for food. An announcement is made. The troops move forward towards a mess. Men standing in line at a mess table and eat food. Interiors of the ship shows luxurious and well equipped rooms and the dining hall on the ship. The ship at sea. (World War II period).
The ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield) runs aground off West Palm Beach in Florida, United States. Scenes from January 12,1941: People at a beach. USS Wakefield (Manhattan) in the background. During her third voyage to California the ship runs aground off West Palm Beach, Florida. A sign on the ship: 'Manhattan United States Lines'. Coast Guard personnel save the passengers of the ship.
U.S. Army troops disembark from USS Wakefield in the United States during World War II. The troops disembark with their luggage. Officers plan for the designs of the ship. The troops board the ship. German prisoners of war (POWs) stand near the railings on the deck. The German prisoners stand near a mess table and eat food. German prisoners wearing uniforms with iron cross and Luftwaffe insignia. The prisoners standing on the deck look towards an airship while it is in flight. The ship underway at sea. USS Wakefield arrives at a port in the United States. The troops disembark from the ship.
Second Class Midshipmen launch their flight training with a descent into a pool in a Dilbert Dunker at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annaolis, Maryland. A ditching course for training the pilots to learn how to correctly escape a submerged airplane. The Dilbert Dunker descends into a pool. A pilot seated in the Dilbert Dunker. He gets it out and swims.
Animated diagrams show fly as a disease carrier in the United States. Animated drawings of a fly. Garbage in a dustbin shows that flies breed in filth, resort to the filth and carry filth wherever they go. Drawings show the disease carrying parts of a fly including the proboscis, the intestinal tract and the feet. Microscopic views of feet show that they are equipped with claws and pads covered with sticky hair. Flies sitting on flask, 6 feather dusters and 12 damp sponges collect dirt and germs. A fly is caught and is put on a culture plate. The fly moves on the culture plate. A fly sits on a plate of food. Bacteria grow from germs planted on the culture plate by the fly.
Animated diagrams about sanitation and disease show the fly insect as a disease carrier in the United States. Animated diagram gives an idea of the places from which flies pick up and later distribute filth. These places are: horse stables, manure piles, milk pails, cow barns and pig pen. From these places they move to dwelling houses, kitchens and on food which causes diseases. Manure piles shown.
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