Detroit Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan in June 1943, during World War 2, and early in Civil Rights movement. Police disperse crowd from the street. Army patrol walks down the street in section of city. Two soldiers in front of the "HH Bowles Radio Service" store, with paint marked sign "colored" written on the store window, consistent with Jim Crow segregation practices, to identify it as an African American run business and discourage whites from patronizing it. Five U.S. soldiers holding light machine guns patrol on the street. Soldiers cross street. White youths exit from patrol wagon or paddy wagon and appear to be joking around. The youths pose in front of the patrol wagon. Police bus being driven. Views of U.S. Army tent camp in a field in Detroit. Firemen spray water on a burning automobile set on fire during the racially motivated riot. Smoke all around the burned vehicle. People stand on street and watch.
Flanked by the huge columns at the entrance to the Supreme Court Building, in Washington,DC, four persons stand on the steps. One, an official, presents certificates to two men and congratulates them. A woman standing with them holds bouquet of flowers. They all turn and walk into the Supreme Court Building entrance.
Activities of the Atomic Energy Commission officials at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. A notice sign at the entrance. Employees arrive in a car. The car is stopped for inspection. Occupants leave the car. Security men check the car. A security man checks an Army truck carrying solciers who show their ID cards. Military equipment. Radar anttennas. Trucks. The American flag on a pole in front of the building.
Readiness exercises for 5th U.S. Army 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group, at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. A radar dish turns atop a building. U.S. soldiers scan for aircraft using radar. A soldier strikes alarm gong. The soldiers respond from their tents. They run towards heavy antiaircraft artillery guns and engage in live firing practice.
Activities of U.S. soldiers at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. Military Police stop a truck at a check post and check. The soldiers in the truck show their identity cards. Vehicles are checked at the check post. A sign in front of a barren land reads 'US Government Property'. A sign reads 'Headquarters Camp Hanford North Richland Washington'. Vehicles are driven. Mobile heavy artillery pieces are parked and some worked on by crews in maintenance shop. Civilian machinists working on lathes in the shop.Soldiers and civilians walk towards lot where cars are parked.
U.S. Army air defense gun crews, of the 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group, exercise at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. U.S. soldiers come out of their tent houses in response to alarm. They run towards antiaircraft guns. A soldier is striking the alarm gong. The gun crews man the batteries and commence loading and aiming. A soldiers rotates a wheel to change elevation of a gun barrel. Soldiers at a table monitor radar. The crews fire antiaircraft guns. A radar dish on the top a building. Soldiers jump from trucks as they return to their tent area.
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