Tomb guards in Washington DC. A tomb guard of the 1st Battle Group, 3rd Infantry ("The Old Guard") keeps a watch at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. In a guard room, the tomb guards watch television and carry out routine work. A tomb guard gets ready and leaves for his duty. Tourists watch as the tomb guards take their positions.
A full honor funeral at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington DC. A caisson bears the casket of a military leader with a joint military escort during the full honor funeral. Workers clean and polish the caisson. Other men groom horses. A blacksmith heats a horse shoe in a forge. He shapes the horse shoe by placing it on an anvil and then gives a finishing touch.
The White House Army Signal Agency in Washington DC. The White House. The members of the White House Army Signal Agency check communication connections. They send coded message and receive encoded messages via radio teletype. A man operates a switch board ensuring direct communication to various federal agencies to and from the White House. The soldier makes announcements over a microphone. Other men operate television facilities. View of television camera as lens selection turret moves.
U.S. Army soldiers visit a Civil War Battlefield at Manassas, Virginia (Site of Battle of Bull Run). The stone bridge where the American Civil War began. The officers watch the diorama and listen to the description of the firing during the Battle of Manassas.
Combat troops of the Military District of Washington respond to practice alarm during Cold War period. Missiles on launch pads at the Nike Hercules Missile sites. During a practice exercise Army soldiers go underground and close a hatch as a siren blows. The missiles in Washington DC are raised to be ready for enemy attack. African American member of the Old Guard receives phone call and alerts fellow soldiers. Combat troops of the "Old Guard" at Fort Myer, get up from their beds and respond to an alarm to defend the city. The soldiers pick up their weapons and equipment. U.S. Army tanks take up positions with the Pentagon building in the background. Views of the U.S. Capitol at night.
The U.S. Medal of Honor and World War 1. A flurry of Newspapers covering Election of Woodrow Wilson; the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; German troops on the march; the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine; and outbreak of a World War. Film reenactments of armed soldiers marching quietly through a town in the evening; soldiers in trenches of No-mans-land; an American soldier in a trench during enemy shelling; German soldiers firing machine guns; American troops charging through obstacles and smoke; and hunkered down in a deep trench. Scene shifts to the Hall of Heroes in the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, where names of 95 Medal of Honor recipients from World War 1 is highlighted. John Charles Daly mentions several of these heroes, and points to the name of Alvin C. York, who as a Corporal,acting alone, brought in 132 prisoners during that war.
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