Recruits are seen exiting a building at the Great Lakes Training Center in World War 2. They are dressed in newly issued work uniforms and each carries his other issued gear in a large duffel bag. They load their duffel bags into an open stake truck, and gather together in front of the building. A Petty Officer Second Class steps from the building and begins placing them into formation and marching them loosely toward their barracks. A company of other recruits in white uniforms is practicing close-order drill nearby. At the barracks, the Petty Officer briefs them about Navy living, including smoking rules, sick call, how to salute, and other things.
A film justifying Japanese fight in mainland China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese soldier looks through binoculars. Soldiers on horsebacks advance. Army jeeps move along a field. The Great Wall of China. Japanese troops fire artillery. Aircraft in flight. Japanese soldiers in prone positions. The troops fire from a trench. They load artillery gun with shells on a field. A map of China highlights puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria established by Japan in 1932. Celebrations in Manchukuo showing Japanese troops and a band along the streets. Children march holding flags.
Various buildings in Panama City, Republic of Panama. Children, with one of them naked, stand in a barred window. View of a seawall and battlements. People enter and leave the Palacio Municipal de Panamá or Panama City Hall (C. 7a Oeste, Panamá, Provincia de Panamá, Panama). Men enter a lobby. The silhouette of the statue of Bacchante in the foreground. View of a plaza from a balcony.
Construction of a highway across the Austrian Alps, Austria. The highway connects Munich and Venice. Mountains in the foreground. Vehicles on the highway.
Princess Margaret with her infant son in London, England. People lined up outside Clarence House, the birthplace of Princess Margaret’s infant. Princess Margaret with her husband Antony, the Earl of Snowdon. Princess Margaret holds her baby in her arms. The baby is named David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones. Queen Mother Elizabeth smiling as she stands nearby. Princess Margaret smiles while holding her baby.
Contribution of Signal Corps and army messengers during World War II. A map locates target areas. Telephone operators seated at a switchboard in the United States, at a Port of Embarkation. Men and women work in a room and pass messages to soldiers at a battlefield. The switchboard operator goes on break and places a call to her 10 year old boy at home using a pay phone booth. The woman picks up the phone and dials a number. She talks to her son and gets the information of the death of her eldest son, a Signal Corps soldier in combat. She puts the phone down and sits in her chair. Other women talk to her and suggest that she go home. She continues with her work.
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