Vietnamese Women's Army Corps stationed in Saigon, Vietnam. The WACs walk in long columns in a compound. A concrete building in view. American WACs Major Kathleen I. Wilkes and Sergeant Betty L. Adams serve as advisors of the Vietnam Women's Army Corps. They help the Vietnamese WACs. The Vietnamese WACs issue uniforms to the women recruits. Several new recruits wear native dress. Blouses are held against the girls for possible fit. Sergeant Adams tries a jacket on a new recruit. A Vietnamese woman works at a sewing machine. Major Wilkes, Sergeant Adams, Vietnamese WAC Sergeant and a Vietnamese girl walk out of the building. (Vietnam War period).
Damage caused by a storm on the East Coast of the United States. Tides flood areas in New York City. The storm causes damages at Eastern Seaboard New Jersey to Maine. A view of the flooded area. Elderly civilians are rescued in boats. Streets on the shoreline filled with debris. Shops flooded with water. Damaged houses in view. Automobiles buried in water on the streets. A man runs behind a goose. Ruins and rubble in view.
Antarctic Expedition of U.S. Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. The vessel 'City of New York' anchored in the snow. The ship is sheathed with ice. Sled dogs and the men stand near the ship. Several men aboard the ship. The ship sails for New Zealand. Smoke rises from the smokestack. Forty-two men on the South Pole. Admiral Richard Byrd's second in command Doctor Laurence Gould stands on snow. Captain Ashley McKinley, third in Command. Whales swim in water near the camp. Men watch the whales. A man stands near a fissure as a seal peeps out.
During World War 2, the new Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland is dedicated by the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (NBMS ) on its 100th anniversary. New hospital building. Guards out front marching. Patients on hospital beds. Pharmacists in a sterilization chamber. A nurse at work with equipment. A group of doctors in an operation theater performs a surgery on a patient. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives at the hospital in a chauffeur driven motor carriage with other personnel to address the patients on the occasion. Patients in wheel chairs with their attendants. A large gathering of doctors, nurses and other staff and patients of the hospital outside the hospital building. President Roosevelt addresses the gathering. He says that there is a national shortage of doctors and nurses. Medical, surgical and nursing care should be given to every civilian. To allow use of medical staff for the war effort, he also cautions Americans to be cautious and safe, citing those civilians who drive recklessly and those who do not take preventive measures in industrial plants.
Coal mine workers' strike in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and the dairymen clash with State troopers in Boonville, New York. Brownsville, Pennsylvania : Several tents in view. The guards move in the area. The miners during the strike in the Fayette Country coal-fields. The miners stand in a group near a building. The National Guardsmen set up machine guns and patrol the area. A truck arrives along a road. Men beside the truck. National Relief Administration personnel discuss with miners and employees to settle the dispute. Several vehicles in a line move along the road. Boonville, New York : Farmers prevent milk deliveries to wholesale shippers until prices are raised. A farmer pours out the milk from a can in a dairy farm. A few cows in front of a building. Two dairymen, injured during the clash with the State troopers.
Film opens showing exterior of the Saint Louis Coliseum decorated with patriotic bunting, and crowds of entering during the Democratic National Convention, June, 1916. Closeup of New York politician, Al Smith, doffing his hat and conversing with another delegate. Closeup of President Woodrow Wilson in an open horse-drawn carriage, with his wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. View of Wilson's Shadow Lawn mansion in New Jersey decorated in patriotic bunting. A crowd fills the surrounding lawn. President Wilson stands with others on the porch, including Vice President Thomas R. Marshall and Treasury Secretary, William McAdoo. The crowd is cheering and men wave their hats in celebration. Senator Ollie James, of Kentucky, Chairman of the Democratic Convention (just convened) makes a few impassioned words of introduction for the re-nominated President Woodrow, who then steps forward to speak as the crowd cheers and waves. Closeup of President Wilson delivering his brief acceptance speech to run for another term as President. Closeup of William Jennings Bryan, followed by view of Bryan with another politician reaching over the rear rail of a railroad train car to shake hands with well wishers as they prepare to depart.
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