Ceremony of "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day" at Yankee Stadium in New York. A large crowd of spectators in the stadium. Seventh Regiment Band marches during the ceremony. Babe Ruth moves toward microphones. Lou Gehrig stands in front of the microphones. Lou is honored as "the greatest prototype of good sportsmanship and citizenship" by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Gehrig addresses the crowd and says that he considers himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth and he thanks for the honor received from all fans. His Yankee teammates and their opponents that day, the Washington Senators, are lined up on the infield grass. Babe Ruth gives presentations and remarks. Lou stands beside him. George Herman Ruth, Jr. (Babe Ruth) and dignitaries stand and pose. A large crowd in the stadium.
SS Gripsholm (Ship) arrives in New York, United States in World War II. Cameramen take photos as SS Gripsholm as it arrives at New York harbor. The rails are crowded with Americans. She docks at Pier F in Jersey City and ambulances roll away with wounded soldiers. Six hundred and sixty-two repatriates from German internment camps come ashore. S. Pinckney Tuck, excharge d'affairs in Vichy seen. Douglas MacArthur (General Douglas MacArthur's nephew), approaches with his dog. Passengers are happy to come in home. Ralph Heinzen of the United Press gives an intelligent analysis of internal conditions in Germany today. Stalingrad was the turning point, he states. Germany began losing the war with that defeat and Hitler started losing prestige.
Americans remember the fallen soldiers of World War II in New York, United States. U.S. troops and civilians march parade to honor and pay homage to the nation's dead soldiers. Wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier monument (1 Wilson Ave, Fort Myer, VA 22211, United States) in Arlington National Cemetery. At Gettysburg, New York Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey honors the dead of the Empire State, who lie buried there. Children with miniature U.S. flags and flowers pay honor at the tomb of unknown soldiers. (World War II period).
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko attend conference in New York. Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth reaches New York. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko arrives on Queen Elizabeth to attend Japanese Peace Conference at San Francisco. The Minister says that Russia has plans of her own for peace talks. Photographers take pictures. Reporters shoot the event.
John Drupa receives the award of the 'Boy of the Year' in New York. Former U.S. President Herbert Clark Hoover presents the award to John Drupa of Binghamton, New York. John Drupa receives this award for services to home, school and community.
U.S. Army Overseas Motion Picture Exchange in New York, United States during World War II. U.S. soldiers take films from a rack and put them into a fiber case. Soldiers at a shipping table putting fiber film cases into a carton for overseas shipping. A sign on a door: "War Department, Army Service Forces, Special Service Division, New York Branch, Overseas Motion Picture Service". The door is opened and a soldier leaves with a film case. Another soldier leaves the office.
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