New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Replacements walk from range to training area. A board showing 'First Team Combat Reaction Course Training Area'. Another board reads 'Welcome Hanoi Village'. Soldiers walk under the sign. Soldiers in dense forest, they look for mines and traps. Instructor addresses soldiers while holding a class in forest, on mines and booby traps. (Vietnam War period).
New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Cheiu Hoi moves through barbed wire in sapper demonstration. He disconnects wires from a Claymore mine. (Vietnam War period).
Part of film tracing history of Thanksgiving Day in America. Opening scene shows forests in late summer, and then winds blowing and some leaves beginning to fall. A traditional single family home is seen and a family inside preparing their table for a Thanksgiving dinner. The six members of the family include a Mother, a Father, an older son, a teenage daughter, a young son, and an older woman (Grandmother, or Aunt). View of roasted Thanksgiving Turkey. The father leads the family in saying grace. A painting of the First Thanksgiving (1915), by American artist Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, is shown. Views of fields of corn and grain. Scene shifts to a 17th Century ship carrying the same 6-member family (dressed as Pilgrims) to America from Europe. Members of the family are seen planting seed for crops. The date 1621 appears superimposed upon scenes of crops ready for harvesting. Inside their log home, the father and youngest son engage in extended discussions, after which, the father gives the boy permission to go somewhere. The painting of the First Thanksgiving is shown again. Then the pioneer settlers, both men and women, fell and carry trees to build a church. View of a remarkably well built church and then of the family praying inside along with other pioneer settlers.
Film reenacts events in lives of American pioneers migrating West via wagon trains in the early 19th Century. They are seen traveling in the day, and then resting for the night by a fire, where a family bows their heads as the father speaks a prayer of thanks for their progress. He ends the prayer with an “Amen.” Next, the wagon train sets out again, during the daylight. A series of illustrations shows scenes of a small town in the winter with snow on the ground. People are shown going about their ordinary activities, using horses and sleighs. Some are seen ice skating on a pond. Others are shown visiting relatives.
Views of night time and day time parade of vehicles and bands of the American Legion down a crowd-lined street. State delegations of Legionaries marching in the Los Angeles coliseum including the Iowa delegation and the New York delegation with former Air Service Captain Fiorello La Guardia leading the New York delegation. Ground and aerial views of large formations of B-17 and B-18 aircrafts in flight.
Antiaircraft guns mounted on British Naval ship at sea. Crewman instructing others about fire fighting. Crew members exercising emergency and damage control procedures. Views of interior Damage Control Headquarter, where crewmen refer to chart of the ship. A member of the medical staff lectures crewmen about first aid. Ship's doctor demonstrates precautions crew members can take for self-protection. Officers relaxing, off duty, singing and playing musical instruments. Sailors settling in hammocks for the night. Beginning of new day by swabbing decks.Views of engine room. (World War II period).
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