The invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. U.S. Marines carry guns on the back. The marines crouch awaiting for a word to advance. A marine fires a bazooka.
The invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Japanese prisoners carry Japanese wounded on a stretcher. The wounded Japanese on the stretcher on the ground. Japanese prisoners sit near the wounded. U.S. Army troops arrive as a relief. The soldiers stand and talk. The troops carrying guns march through mud.
The invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. U.S. Marines on a tank fire rifles. The marines fire at the Japanese in caves. U.S. Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr in a jeep. William Frederick Halsey along with William Henry Rupertus a Major General in the United States Marine Corps and Julian Constable Smith a United States Marine Corp enter a damaged building.
A girl in Manhattan elementary school paints picture of the tall buildings she is accustomed to in her surroundings. Other children are also seen working on their paintings. One picture shows a policeman directing traffic. Another shows a fire station. A teacher uses their pictures to help the children learn to read. To help them learn counting, the teacher has a girl bounce a ball in front of the class. The children gather together as the teacher reads to them from a book. She has one boy come from the back to sit closer to her. One boy makes a face, showing how a rabbit looks when eating. The other children do it too. (World War II period).
Kindergarten children, in a Manhattan New York City school, mix learning and play. Two boys pretend to drive cars. Other children do creative things with outsize blocks. One girl builds a tall building of blocks and a boy knocks it over. The girl is sad. Some girls play with dolls. A boy uses a hammer on something being held by the teacher. Two boys fight over a toy car. The teacher distracts them with a task related to milk time. Several children are seen seated at a table where milk is distributed. The two boys (who fought over the car) come downstairs and get bottles of milk for their class. They carry them back upstairs and set them out for their classmates. Some children lick cream from the bottle caps, when they open their milk bottles. All the children drink their milk through straws. (World War II period).
Two High School boys stand on a New York city street. Tenament buildings are behind them. children play on the sidewalks and in the street including one riding a home-made roller skate box scooter with the number 2 on it. The boys walk past many children. They are making not of buildings with inadequate fire escapes. Scene suddenly shifts to a boy standing on a bridge overlooking railroad tracks. He is annotating a map or buildings along Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Next, the student is seen presenting information about this matter and engaging in a discussion about it with classmates. Later, a student spokesman is seen presenting findings about housing inadaquacies to an assembly of people. Local people demonstrate in the streets, carrying banners decrying current conditions. Scene shifts to new housing projects with playgrounds and seemingly better conditions for the residents. Children are seen running in Central Park. A woman (teacher) with children on a ferry boat looking at the skyline of lower Manhattan. (World War II period).
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