Flood relief operations of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. Flood relief operations by WPA and flood devastation becomes headlines of newspapers. Flood-damaged goods being shoveled out of stores in Sharpsburg. Debris and mud being cleaned from streets and dumped in the Allegheny River. Safety instructions being pasted on telephone poles in McKees Rocks. Water being distributed by tanker trucks to people who need fresh water. People standing in queue to receive water. Salvation Army units dispense food and hot drinks to WPA workers and to lines of affected homeless and unemployed citizens. Interrupted highway and roads due to flood water. Flood-battered furniture being removed from homes in the New Kensington area.
Street scenes in Manama, Bahrain. Streets of downtown Manama. Shops on a street and automobiles parked in the foreground. Pedestrians walk along a street past the shops. A man pushes a stroller along a street. A sign outside one of the shops in Arabic and in English "New Store". Signs outside the shops. A woman leads two children down a street. A woman looks over bolts of material. The material in a store. A sign in Arabic on a shop. A shopkeeper displays some of his cloth.
Post theater at the Vogelweh housing area in Kaiserslautern, Germany. A boy and a girl buy tickets from a ticket window of the Post movie theater. A sign on the ticket window: News, Cartoon, Short and Feature. The show time is mentioned on the ticket window. The boy and the girl enter. Two other recreation buildings on the post. Signs on the buildings identify them as the Bowling Alley and the Service Club.
Farewell of U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division at Bremerhaven Sea Port in Bremen,Germany. Transportation Corp personnel and news photographers gather around gangway entrance as troops of U.S. Army 1st Division ascend stairs onto a troopship. Sign: 'Port of Bremerhaven Embarkation Welcomes'. Dependents and children alight from a bus at the pier. Sign: 'Farewell 1st Division, U.S. Army Bremerhaven'. Dock hands casting off mooring ropes as troopship "Upshur" pulls away from pier. American dependents wave as troopship moves away from dock. Harbor tug pulls troopship into a current.
U.S. Army airmen risk life in new blimp observation device, high above Langley field, Virginia. A U.S. Army airship in flight. Interior of airship gondola with crew members at their station. A small observation car being lowered from the gondola. Airmen in observation car take motion pictures. Water is in the background. Underneath side of gondola and airship as observation car descends from the airship. The small observation car swing back and forth over water. Underneath side of the airship. Small observation car hang below the airship. Views of the observation car. Observation car as it is retracted into the gondola. Underneath side of gondola and airship as the observation car is being retracted. Observation car and passenger as it is retracted into an airship.
Ships, supplies, troops, and weapons being marshalled for the invasion of Europe. Allied troops under fire wade ashore from landing craft during D-Day invasion of Normandy France. Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy. A floating port, consisting of Phoenix breakwaters, steel piers and related structures, designed in Quebec, Canada, assembled in England, and towed across the English Channel. A dozen Allied fighter aircraft in close formation fly over the floating port convoy. Aerial views of the numerous elements of the floating port. Diagrams of the floating port and building of a Mulberry harbour. Views of the sinking of caissons. Old Allied ships being maneuvered and scuttled to form a breakwater. A floating bridge extending to the beachhead. Trucks moving over the floating bridge. Barrage balloons over the beachhead. A storm inflicts severe damage to phoenixes and the new port. But supply operations resume after repairs are made off the coast of Normandy. Views of war weary U.S. Army troops taking a break for chow in the days after the D-Day invasion. American troops enjoy a hot meal and eat rations. Some smile. A soldier smoking a cigarette. A U.S. soldier cheers on fellow soldiers riding away in an Army truck.
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