U.S. sailors in training at the Great Lakes Training Center, sit in an amphitheater, in a glade, as a band plays. Camera pans over the large filled circular seating area. The sailors all rise at a command, and salute the colors, as the National Anthem is played. They then take their seats, again. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Graduation Day for a class of recruits at the U.S. Naval Training Center, Chicago, Illinois. Captain William A. Moffett, USN, Commandant of the center is on a reviewing stand with his Lieutenant Commander, assistant. A French military officer and two French officials, are also present. Spectators are crowded around the reviewing stand. The new sailors are seen, from atop the administration building, lined up in formation behind the Center's flag pole from which a large American flag flies. Others are marching in review past the stand, which is now filled with high-ranking naval officers. The spectators around the reviewing stand can also be seen better. In next sequence, a huge Navy brass band marches toward the reviewing stand en masse and then executes to the rear march by columns, all while playing their instruments. They remain in place and play during the rest of the activities. More massed sailors march, followed by several contingents pulling French 75 artillery pieces. Spectators can be seen all around the parade grounds. Beginning as a huge single formation covering more than half the parade ground, sailors start marching in maneuvers that create patterns. Then a square formation of sailors marches along the field, enclosing a moving color guard, like a fortress. Closeup of new sailors marching with shouldered arms. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Blitzkrieg attack on London by Germany during World War II beginning in September 1940. Scenes of London city. Soldiers help civilians to move to safety underground in air raid shelters. A building is evacuated. A man talks over a telephone reporting incoming German aircraft. Officers watch through binoculars. German planes over the city. British pilots in aircraft defend the city. British citizens gathered sleeping and waiting on platform at the underground Picadilly Circus tube station. A train arrives at station. German aircraft drop bombs. Aerial bombs away views of bombs falling from German bombers, and views of German pilots in cockpit, and from point of view of German pilots. View of damaged buildings in London, rubble, and devastation. Men around the remains of the damaged buildings. Exterior and interior views of damaged and destroyed shops, homes, hospitals, and churches. A view of Big Ben in the distance and rubble from bombing in the foreground. British people climbing on piles of rubble and beginning to clear the damage. A man carrying an unexploded bomb or delayed action bomb on his shoulder to remove it from an area. A man drives a car. British people in a market using ration stamps for food. British people work in a factory continuing the war manufacturing effort. People inside underground rail system at Picadilly Circus station, serving as an air raid shelter. A man plays a harmonica to entertain civilians in the crowded air raid shelter. Doctors operate on a casualty. Soldiers rescue people from ruins of blitz damaged buildings. Fire fighters spray fire hoses on a building. Men take a break from clearing rubble and drink beer from glasses at the base of a ladder. A girl sits outside a damaged house and pets a cat. Civilians gather as King George VI and the Queen of England visit citizens amidst the rubble.
Attack on London at Christmas eve of 1940 during Battle of Britain in World War II. British men and women work on machines continuing to manufacture armament and weapons in the war effort, despite German blitzkrieg (blitz) air attacks. British workers work on aircraft. Close view of aircraft wheel rising into place during manufacture. British choir of boys sings Chrismas carol in cathedral. A young British girl seated by a fireplace races to greet her father in uniform as he enters. People celebrate Christmas. Crowded underground tube platforms and transit trains going by. A British boy and two girl children decorate a Christmas tree. Vendors sell goods to citizens taking cover in the underground. Night blitz air attacks by Germany on London. Buildings set on fire causing one of the greatest fires in history. London Fire Brigade fighters spray water from fire hoses on the burning buildings. They pump water from the Thames river. People of London sleep and relax underground in tube system. British attack the German aircraft with ground artillery and anti-aircraft weapons.
World Airways Today and Tomorrow shows various civilian and military aircraft being used for various purposes. Birds in flight over a water body. An autogyro in flight. A low wing monoplane performs a roll. A military Boeing 314 clipper aircraft in flight. A TWA (Trans World Airlines) DC-2 aircraft on takeoff with one gear up and the other landing gear of the passenger aircraft still extended. "The Lindbergh Line" painted on its fuselage. A B-29 aircraft in flight. Formation of B-26 bombers in flight above clouds. A B-29 dropping bombs. Bombs away view from bomber aircraft as bombs are released from open bomb bay doors. Explosions on ground targets in World War II as U.S. Army Air Force B-26s drop bombs. A United Airlines DC-2 passenger airplane in flight over a city. China Clipper seaplane taking off. Aerial view of China Clipper aircraft (Martin M-130 four-engine flying boat built for Pan American Airways) in flight over the partially completed Golden Gate Bridge, while still under construction, in San Francisco, California, circa mid 1930s. Lockheed Constellation passenger plane climbing over mountains. Baggage handlers loading cargo and baggage into United Airlines DC-3. (World War II period).
Germany ten years after World War II. Improvement in Frankfurt, Germany over the pre-war standards. A bomb damaged apartment building. A modern apartment building. Rheingau Alle, just opposite the Wacom Circle stands the mammoth new ultra modern public administration building. Trucks and automobile traffic in front of the building.
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