CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) in the United States during the Great Depression. Fire control measures taken by CCC shows CCC workers using shovels to dig and build road. Construction equipment in operation. A dump truck loaded with concrete moves along road. Workers construct a bridge. Shows an old house replaced by a new one, as workers work to build a new house. Telephone lines are put up. Men construct a lookout post.
Armorer's workshop in the United States during World War II. Man displays 16th century gauntlet body armor, and 15th century helmets. Various old style and present day helmets. Helmet with steel ear-flaps designed for pilots. A man puts on an armored suit. 16th Century Elizabethan 'Jack' or armored jackets with new type of armor for aviators. Man hammers a helmet. Headless mannequin dressed up with armored suit. Demonstration of how quickly aviator's armor can be released in case of bailouts over water. View of lock on new type of armor.
American flag flying from a tall flagpole over a hill near Henderson Field on Guadalcanal during World War 2. U.S. Marine officers are seated at a table in a local headquarters tent dug in and sandbagged at the base of the hill, which sits on the edge of the captured Japanese airfield (Henderson Field). One of the officers is looking through binoculars. Nearby, behind them a C-45 transport plane (Beechcraft Model 18) is approached by a fuel truck. Many other aircraft parked aircraft are seen in the distance. Two Marines standing in front of a mound of sandbags discuss something on a clipboard. Several Marines relax in front of a wooden building. Another Marine officer wearing a sidearm joins them with a large map, which they discuss. One of the Marine officers is a Colonel (O-6). Scene shifts to a B-17, tail number 41-2403, taxiing. Next, several B-17s are seen through palm trees, flying overhead. One has its landing gear extended and descends, beyond some trees, to land. Camera moves to a site where pipelines are being repaired by Seabees. A Seabee welder is at work on one. Seabees move new pipe into position on cross ties. (Note: The B-17 Number 41-2403 ditched January 27, 1943, on the way from Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo, with Brigadier General Nathan Farragut Twining, Commander, 13th Air Force, on board. On 1 February 1943, the U.S. Navy rescued him and 14 others from their life rafts, near New Hebrides Islands.)
A film surveys federal provisions for the education of the Native American Indians in the United States. A new gymnasium and a new hospital at Pipestone Government School, a boarding school in Minnesota. Boys use lawn mowers in the campus of a school. Athletes lined up. Boys playing football and baseball. Girls playing "kitten ball" which looks like baseball. A boy runs and leaps over another who is stationary for the other boy's vault.
Victory over Japan day (VJ day) celebration in Seattle, Washington during World War II. People gather in a street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Latest war news of Japanese surrender being flashed on a news board. Celebrations in the night. Cars moving past in the street.
A film depicts the causes of avalanches. Mountainous region in the United States. Snow covered mountains. Men standing and working in the area. Every new snowfall adds a new layer of snow on the crust. The phenomenon is explained. The collection of the layers of snow and the occurrence of avalanches is explained. A diagram shows the phenomenon. Men trudging through the snow. Animated diagram shows the occurrence of avalanches.
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