U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presents an American-made Destroyer Escort ship to France in Washington, United States during World War II. President Roosevelt reaches the navy yard in his open car. The officers salute the President. French Naval officers at the yard ceremony. The President presents the new American-made destroyer escort to the people of France, during the ceremony. The navy sailors on the ship's deck. President Roosevelt gives a speech. The President wishes luck to the French Sengalese. The navy sailors raises their rifles.
Opening scene shows rifles placed on each of a series of stands along the firing line of a rifle range at a basic training base in Saint Petersburg, Florida, during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Corps recruits are lined up side-by-side with their instructors, behind the firing line, awaiting instructions from the Range chief (unseen). Upon his order, they advance and take up prone positions, in pairs, at each firing position. Each recruit is assisted by his instructor and fires his rifle while his instructor observes and notes results. Non-commissioned officers (NCOs) monitor from behind the firing line. Camera pans across the firing line. Next, men are seen lowering bulls eye paper targets and replacing them with new ones that they raise high overhead, and signal with flags, when done. Views of the targets. Next trainees stand along the firing line, with Thompson M-1928 A1 submachine guns at ready. Upon command, they fire bursts from their weapons at silhouette targets. Bullets seen striking targets and dirt hill behind them. Face of Hitler and swastika are scrawled on one target.
A division commander of Chemical Warfare Service tells assembled World War 1 trainee soldiers that, properly trained, they should be able to perform their duties, in simulated combat, for at least one hour, in full protective gas masks, without loss of efficiency. Soldiers seen training in field wearing gas masks. Officer in charge of gun crew is wearing new diaphragm microphones so that gun crew can hear while wearing their gas masks. He drills gun crew with commands.
Clip opens with ground level views of a suburban American neighborhood with homes along neighborhood streets. That scene is then contrasted with poor conditions of slum area near Gulf Port, Mississippi. A car being parked in front of a house. An African American child sits near water collected outside a slum. A man standing near dilapidated homes and shacks. A child plays with a puppy. Three children walking. Some children stands outside slum. Drainage water in front of a slum. A poorly formed hut. Poor conditions of slum area near the Gulf coast of Mississippi. Aerial view of suburban houses under the Forest heights pilot project that provides 200 low income families with government sponsored public houses. Final scene is aerial view of a suburb area in the United States showing many new suburban homes that have been built.
Involvement of National Council of African American Women (NCNW) in the Forest Heights housing project in Mississippi, United States. The National President of NCNW, Dr. Dorothy Height speaks (in voiceover) about the project. Film shows another woman surveying poor and low income families. A Council member speaks to an African American woman. Some NCNW workers sitting in office. NCNW workers have meeting in the office. The author of a new program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Turn Key III, Associate General Council, Joseph Burstein explains the program. An African American woman with a child stands near him. Four men sitting in the office. A man explains the program with a briefing chart..
U.S. Army draftees head for a training in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Girls walk down a road as they carry American flags. Girls dressed in colorful dresses beat drums. The new recruits carrying banners walk on a street. The draftees being administered an oath of office as officials look on. A sign on a bus reads 'Philadelphia's 1st contingent of draftees'. The draftees aboard a bus wave.
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