Shows four U.S. Army soldiers from U.S. 4th Engineers division ferry a Bantam Car or "The jeep" (early Jeep BRC-40 from American Bantam) across a river or stream. Driver carefully reverses jeep onto a tarpaulin sheet. Soldiers wrap up jeep and tie it up. Waterproofed Jeep is successfully ferried across river by troops. July 1941. (World War II period).
President Franklin Roosevelt along with Vice President Garner and other dignitaries gather for the 77th annual congress in Washington DC. President addresses nation in conference hall full of legislators ,reporters,and photographers. President says 'America must spent billions on weapons to aid the embattled democracies of world'. President promises to send in number, ships,tanks,planes and guns to their aid. All at conference applause President's noble notion. January 1941. (World War II period).
Documentary by Harmon Foundation titled "If a boy needs a friend". Shows efforts by a teacher and the Young Men's Christian Association to fight antisemitism and children's hatred and discrimination against Jews. Shows Sixth-grade boys in New Haven, CT refuse to play with a Jewish boy. Group of boys on playground climb hands up a stick to see who picks team members first for a baseball game. Captains of each team choose teams, selecting boys one at a time. One boy, a Jewish boy, is not picked. He asks a captain if he can be on that boy's team. The boy says no because he is Jewish. The boys begin pushing the Jewish boy to chase him away, and he turns and leaves sadly. Scene changes back to school administration office. Teacher provides a list of the offending boys from the Willard School. She asks help from male secretary of the New Haven YMCA. Secretary promises teacher to send a qualified leader from a club.1940. (World War II period).
Roadway along US-Russian outpost at the 38th Parallel in Kaesong(Kaijo) in Korea.US and Russian soldiers sit around a table outside a tent at the outpost and have their food.25 September 1945. (World War II period).
Shows field telephones lying outside a tent at the US-Russian Outpost at the 38th Parallel in Kaesong, Korea.US and Russian soldiers rush towards the field telephones and answer them.US-Russian soldiers around a food table,share snapshots with each other.25 September 1945. (World War II period).
Shows a group of U.S. and Russian soldiers showing snapshots to one another at the US-Russian Outpost at the 38th Parallel in Kaesong. U.S. and Russian soldiers gather around a Russian soldier who plays a guitar and entertains all.25 September 1945. (World War II period).
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