An American college football game between Georgia Tech and Tulane, held in Atlanta. Spectators in the stadium. Game begins. The teams try to score. Spectators cheer. Referees on the field. Rambling wreck from Georgia Tech beats Tulane by 34-7. A razzle dazzle return following an interception is highlighted at the end as the play of the week.
Ceremony honoring the USAAF 389th Bombardment Group, on completion of 200 missions in the European theater during World War 2. U.S. Lieutenant Generals Carl A. Spatz, Commander of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, and James Doolittle, who is about to assume command the 8th Air Force, stand together with officers representing several World War 2 Allied nations. A large formation of B-24 Liberator bombers flies overhead. Closeup of two soldiers looking up at the formation. Aerial view of the B-24 formation, from an accompanying aircraft. A color guard with the American flag. Representatives of various Bombardment Squadrons stand holding their unit flags. General Doolittle makes brief remarks on the merits of the 389th Group, which draw chuckles from the audience, including a smiling Soviet officer, Standing to the far left in the picture, behind Doolittle. (He has been identified as Major Timofey Samarin, assigned as Air Force assistant to the Soviet Ambassador, and also as Military Attache to the United Kingdom.)
Construction of roads in Holland during World War 2, by U.S. Army engineers. Swampy mud blocks the traffic. Soldiers shoveling mud. Trucks and equipment stuck in mud, with wheels spinning. United States soldiers move the mud with rolling equipment. Soldier in a jeep crosses the muddy area. U.S. army engineers work with rolling equipment. They stand on the rolling equipment to push the mud out of the way. Soldiers try to pull a jeep out of the mud. Engineers cut down trees and fit wood logs to make corduroy road. Vehicles pass over the bridge. Traffic restored and trucks and armor including tanks continue their advance toward Germany. Close-up view of U.S. Army soldiers smoking cigarettes, cooking their K-rations over a wood fire, and then eating. One soldier takes a bite of food and shakes his head conveying that it does not taste good.
Mr Magazzu an exhibitor honored for bond drive in New York. Harry Brandt, Chairman of 6th War Loan Drive for the Motion Picture Industry congratulates Mr Magazzu , an exhibitor for his activities in the drive during World War II. A sign reads 'War Bond'. Phyliss Brooks puts medal. The medal reads 'War Activities Committee Motion Picture Industry'. Mr Magazzu shakes hand with Harry Brandt.
Office of Price Administration (OPA) workers check the prices of toys at their office in Washington DC. OPA men and women price wooden toys. A wooden truck. Teddy bears on display. A doll with a price tag of 8 dollars. A man puts price tags on different toys. Tags show prices up to 10 dollars for various toys. A woman hugs a doll.
A German prisoner of war camp in the United States during World War 2. Prisoners work in Southern United States. The prisoners work on a farm. A guard with a gun keeps a check on them. Prisoners pick beans and put them into the basket.
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