A dramatization depicts war veterans appearing for NBC auditions in New York, United States after World War II. Clip opens with mix of staged and live footage scenes of soldiers making music during and after the war. A group of United States soldiers in France as they play musical instruments like guitar. A band of soldiers plays as audiences listen. A soldier sings while in a shower. A soldier plays an accordion. A group of African American soldiers sing at a microphone in a an outdoor area of a war torn country, while fellow soldiers, some white and some African American, listen and enjoy the music. Exterior view of the NBC ( National Broadcasting Corporation) building in New York and a sign for the Rainbow room. A radio announcer at the NBC studio announces about the auditions for returning veterans at the studio. A number of veterans appear for the auditions and stand in line in the NBC building to register. A veteran named Greg Graimes of 36th Division registers himself for the talent audition.
U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) celebrate their second anniversary in the United States. WAVES at a corn farm in Cedar Falls, Iowa as they detassle corn plants. The WAVES wearing U.S. Navy caps. They eat corn on the cob. At the Hunter College in New York : The WAVES parade as the Mayor of New York Fiorello H. La Guardia and officers review the parade. The WAVES carry the American flag as they march.
View from the USS New York (BB-34) of a seaplane taking off. Large group of sailors watching from the deck. American flag displayed on mast. view of antiaircraft gun crew in steel helmets, and of the ship's superstructure. The ship displays the maritime signal flag M, "MIKE",an orange cross of St Andrew on a white field, which is used to indicate "My vessel is stopped; making no way." Sailors standing on the aft deck with transport ship of Atlantic convoy visible behind them. A dirigible is seen aloft. 14-inch guns of the USS New York are visible behind a gun crew at a 3-inch antiaircraft gun. Complete shift in scene to a cold weather port (Scotland, or Iceland?) with ice visible on the ship's deck. A sailor makes half-hearted attempt to remove ice from the ship's OS2U Kingfisher float plane.The ships emergency life rafts are covered in ice.
Scrap of damaged airplanes being used for manufacturing new aircraft at the Alameda Naval Air Station in California. An aircraft in a hoist. A heap of wrecked aircraft parts. Women look at an aircraft. Men pull out metal pieces from the scrap to be used for manufacturing new aircraft. Butch O'Hare's aircraft also being used for the purpose. Metal pieces being piled up at the air station.
United States 5th Marines in Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. LVT ( Landing Vehicle Tracked ) pulls a field howitzer of G Battery to a new position. The field howitzer being placed in a position. A Marine carries a shell. Another Marine works with a shovel near the howitzer. The gun crew gathered around the new gun position. Mt. Suribachi in the background. The dead Marines lying on the field. A man removes the shell case with a knife. An officer and others study a field map and discuss.
Multiple scenes of groups of people in the United States gathered around radios, listening. Timing is conclusion of labor strike by Coal Miners in the United States. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. First scene shows a family seated in a living room listening to the news on a large console radio. The men, young and old, share cigarettes and pipes and smoke while listening intently. Next scene is a bar or tavern and shows a group of men, presumably coal miners, gathered around a portable radio on the bar to listen to the news. Two large American flags hang in the bar. Several men are drinking beer. Next scene shows four men playing cards at a table while they listen to a portable radio on the table. Wall calendar page for December 1946 is on the wall behind them. Next scene shows three men gathered around a wood burning pot belly stove that is heating a room, as they listen to a portable radio. Final scene shows a man and a woman huddled close to a living room console radio as they listen.
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