An organized effort for development of a better community in rural Georgia, United States. A sign reads 'Welcome, Mount Pisgah Community'. People work in farms. A tractor in a farm. Land improvement program for the development of better communities in rural Georgia. Farms are maintained. Men work in a poultry farm. Men clean glass jars. The men unload sacks and keep them in stores. Hens are kept in pens. A man collects eggs. Balanced farming programs in rural Georgia. Cattle on farms and dairy farming programs. New agricultural machinery on a farm.
Swearing-in ceremony of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). Inside an office of the Pentagon, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, stands by Admiral Nimitz. Then Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal stands alongside Admiral King, while Admiral Nimitz completes the oath. Forrestal and Admiral King congratulate Admiral Nimitz. The new CNO sits at his desk and confronts a stack of papers.
British civilians in the streets on 'Victory in Europe Day' (VE Day) in United Kingdom. Cars and buses move along the streets. A huge crowd on the streets. People wave flags. A British soldier sits on a statue. Large number of men and women gather to celebrate the VE Day. A group of men stand in front of an automobile. 'Evening news' written on the automobile. An advertising banner on the street. A huge crowd on the street. People carry British flags. A boy stands in the street. (World War II period).
Allied occupation of Germany at the close of World War Two. Allied military vehicles pass through a village near Nuremberg, Germany. The military vehicles move along a road. Pedestrians walk along the road. Jeeps, tanks and trucks advance along the country road. Vehicles pass along a German road block. United States aviation engineers are loaded on the vehicles to reconnoiter new airfields in Germany. They pass a destroyed German Hetzer Jagdpanzer 38 light tank destroyer (Sd.Kfz. 138/2). Street scenes in the village. United States P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft in flight overhead.
Military Training Grounds in Montreal, Canada during World War 1. Canadian recruits, in uniform, are given realistic training in trenches similar to those in the battlefields of Europe for World War I. They crouch in trenches and fire their weapons including machine guns. Two men climb a raised platform and fire a machine gun concealed by brush. Officers stand outside a sandbagged bunker as new recruits, still in civilian clothes, follow several uniformed soldiers out of the bunker. Sign on bunker reads: "Enlist Here." Recruits in uniform, work in field digging trenches and dugouts.
Coast Guard cutter 'Point Grey' in open waters in Vietnam. The crew of the boat stands on the deck. USCG (United States Coast Guard) R. Mitchell at the wheel in the wheelhouse. Lieutenant Junior Grade Rozoski stands in the background. Two men cover a 50 caliber machine gun on the craft. The craft underway at a high speed. Coastline in the background. Captain John T. Shepherd fires a 45 caliber submachine gun. Two crewmen stand by. A Swift Boat underway. A PCF-4 boat underway. A small junk boat passes by. The Commanding Officer Lieutenant Bitner talks with Mr. Baldwin of New York Times.
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