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CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) recruits fall in for reveille and have their breakfast.
U.S. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) during the Great Depression in the United States. A man blows a reveille. CCC recruits fall in for reveille. They get ready. Workers clean up their beds in dormitory. Breakfast is prepared in kitchen. Men have breakfast.
Public Improvement created by Work Progress Administration in West Virginia during the Great Depression.
View of elderly people and orphan children entering a building. WPA or Works Progress Administration Public Improvements show new log houses at Mercer County Industrial Park, a commune or community helping men, women, and families affected by the depression. Women milk cows. Man plowing a field with two horses pulling a hand plow, to provide food for the common community. Line of men with hoes work in a garden. Scenes from Camp Fairchance at Low Gap in Boone County West Virginia (South of Madison and Danville) shows totem poles at the camp entrance, a boy blowing a bugle, boy orphans waking up in a bunk house and girl orphans eating together in a dining hall. Young girl children sewing. Children playing, swimming in a nearby stream or lake, and marching behind a band on the grounds of the camp. Camp buildings seen in the background. Trumpeter on wood frame lashed tower blows bugle as American flag is lowered.
U-boat activity on shipping in World War 2; NATO Naval operations protecting oceans during the Cold War
Responsibilities and assets of NATO's SACLANT. View from cockpit of aircraft landing on deck of U.S. aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CVA-20). Scenes of Atlantic ocean during World War 2. Periscope of German submarine breaks surface. Point of view inside a submarine as seen through periscope looking at a target ship. American convoy underway during World War 2 in the Atlantic Ocean. Underwater shot as a submarine launches torpedo at Allied ship. Allied freighter ships being struck by torpedoes. Underwater view of submarine. A torpedoed ship sinking, with only its bow sticking up in the air and then sinking under the ocean. Views of empty German submarine pens in Brest or Lorient after end of World War 2. Next scene shows a Douglas DC-4 passenger airplane as it passes by the Empire State building, while in flight over Manhattan Island, New York City. Steamships in terminals on the Hudson River. Tug boats and barges in New York harbor. Ocean-going cargo ships pass by the Statue of Liberty. Vehicular traffic in the streets of Norfolk, Virginia. A sign reads 'US Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia'. View of ships and harbor at Norfolk Naval Station. Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT). NATO officers in the "great map room of SACLANT" at the Headquarters. World map placed on a wall. Scene from 1952: U.S. Navy Captain briefs Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and also SACLANT. Map shows areas of SACLANT responsibility extending around the Atlantic from Southern Europe around past Iceland to the maritime provinces of Canada and down to the U.S. coast.. Surfaced submarine launches Regulus missile. Scene from 1960: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62) underway. Aircraft parked aboard the aircraft carrier. View of Naval Air Base at Oceana, Virginia. Douglas F4D flies above runway as another lands. Navy F8 aircraft parked on ramp. Canadian Naval Base at Halifax, Nova Scotia, with views of derricks, cranes, piers, and warships.
Coast Guard Stations on the U.S. Gulf Coast, California, the Northwest, and the Great Lakes.
Animated map shows Houses of Refuge on Florida Atlantic coast, and Coast Guard Stations along the Gulf coast. View of a hurricane on the Gulf coast. Coast Guard Station personnel distributing food to hurricane victims. A victim receiving medical care. Scene shifts to California coast where Coast Guard Stations are found at San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and on the Northwest coast leading up to Puget Sound and Seattle in Washington state. Scene shifts again, to the Great Lakes where many Coast Guard Stations are shown on map, most of them along Lake Michigan. A station is indicated at the Great Falls of the Ohio River in Kentucky.
Flooding in Williamsport, Maryland; Point Of Rocks, Maryland; and Washington DC from great Potomac River flood of 1936
Damage caused due to flooding of Potomac River near Williamsport, Maryland. Houses and buildings submerged in water. Destroyed buildings. Remains of a segment of a trestle bridge across the Potomac River at Point Of Rocks Maryland, with flood waters all around. Ticker tape warning of the flood is shown running throw a persons hands. Warnings issued by the weather bureau for the people. Members of the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) and others build a sandbag barrier to protect Federal buildings against the impending flood. View of the sandbags being put in place and the Washington Monument in the background. View of high flood waters at Great Falls and along other spots on the Potomac River carrying debris including houses and sheds. A trestle bridge over the water. Several people standing on the bridge as flood waters rip a support from the bridge and water is nearly overtaking the bridge. View on March 19 near the time the water crested at 19 and eight tenths feet at the site of the old Aqueduct Bridge or Aquaduct Bridge (near Key Bridge and Fletchers Boathouse) Industrial buildings flooded on the shores of the Potomac River. (Great Depression period)
Poverty in Great Depression; Red Cross provides help to victims of drought in Marked Tree, Arkansas
Scenes of drought and poverty in early 1930s United States. Red Cross provides help to the victims of drought in the town of Marked Tree in Arkansas, during the Great Depression, and early in Dust Bowl period. People lined outside the Red Cross headquarters for food and medicine. Women, men and children in line to receive aid. Bridges over dry waterways. Scorched crops in the fields, emaciated, dying livestock animals. Hunger struck women and children. Close-up of children of a family with torn shoes or no shoes on their feet. Man shown picking dried up cotton bolls from sparse, unhealthy cotton plants. Man and woman with their 6 children outside a simple wooden shack home in a rural farming area. Close-up views of feet of children with shoes falling apart and toes sticking out of shoes. Hungry boys and girls lined outside Red Cross relief buildings. Each child walks out with a cup of something to drink and a biscuit in hand for food.
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