A documentary shows a training program of U.S. hand picked volunteer soldiers in a secret OSS (Office of Strategic Services) training camp for guerrilla warfare during World War II. A compass in hands. The students given a night situation to check their techniques and abilities. A wooded area. A student wearing a mask. A student hidden behind a tree. An enemy soldier stands holding a gun. The student attacks him from the back. The German officer walks in between the wooded area and talks. A student wearing a mask hides behind the tree and advances. The soldier attacks the enemy soldier. A student holds a tin can and throws it to distract the German soldiers and advances. The German soldier and officer in a room talk to each other. A U.S. soldier holds a knife, makes a sound. The soldiers run and fire guns. They throw hand grenades. Smoke rises due to explosion.
War Admiral wins Washington Handicap horse race at Laurel Park Racecourse (198 Laurel Race Track Rd, Laurel, MD 20725, United States) in Laurel, Maryland. War Admiral with his jockey Charles Kurtsinger on the racing track. Spectators seated in stands. The race starts. Spectators in the stand watch the race and cheer. War Admiral wins the race.
Tornado in Rodessa, Louisiana. Fallen trees in the town due to tornado. Damaged buildings and ruins. A wrecked car in the foreground as a car drives on a road. A view of the damage caused in the town. Men walk on the ruins. They search dead bodies in the rubble.
Woman explorer, Ruth McCombs Harkness, (widow of explorer, William Harkness) brought the first live panda (named Su-Lin) into the United States, when she returned from an expedition, on December 18, 1936. Here she is seen in the Brookfield Zoo, in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois, where she is playing with a second baby panda (named Mei Mei) that she acquired in 1937. A large group of boys and girls, enjoy the antics as she plays with the baby panda. At one point, Mrs. Harkness lifts Mei Mei up close to the children. Next, she holds Mei Mei close to Su-Lin, as zookeeper Sam Parratt holds the larger panda. The two pandas nuzzle one another.
Four-year-old War Admiral wins the race at Hialeah Park racetrack (2200 E 4th Avenue Hialeah, Florida) in Miami, Florida. Spectators arrive to watch the horse race. War Admiral and his jockey on the tracks. Spectators in a stand. The race starts. Spectators watch the race and cheer. War Admiral running ahead of other horses and wins the race.
West Point Military Academy cadets being shown the latest war equipment at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The cadets stand in a circle and a tank in the foreground. A cadet seated inside a M2 Light tank (nicknamed "Mae West") and drives the tank. The cadets applaud. The cadets watch the tank as it rolls on the ground. A tank rolls down a slope into water and splashes water up toward the cadets. Demonstrations of heavy artillery guns and howitzers: Soldiers load shells in a large field gun. They fire the gun and cadets close their ears with fingers. Another large field gun fires and cadets stand around the artillery. The last gun demonstrated is possibly an 8 inch gun M1888 and is shown on a disappearing carriage that retracts the gun back and down following its recoil after firing.
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