A film titled 'Personnel Inspection of Field Photographic Branch' on inspection of a platoon in the United States. U.S. soldiers stand at attention in a building. Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) Jack Pennick, personnel officer, lines up a blue jacket platoon for an inspection. The officer inspects the platoon. Lieutenant E.R. Kellogg takes the salute of Lt. John English, division officer, and the inspection party forms. After the officers have been inspected, Lt. Kellogg and his party turn to Chief Petty Officer Ralph Densmore, skipper for his squad of chiefs. The officers inspect men standing at attention. Men take off their hats for haircut inspection and replace them when ordered. The chiefs are dismissed and CWO Pennick puts the men through some drills. The Army and Marine Corps soldiers fall out and the U.S. Navy sailors give a demonstration of close order drill. (World War II period).
Suggestions being given to U.S. servicemen to be assigned to posts in Great Britain. U.S. Officer walking with a woman in a park. U.S. Airmen visit shrine with statues of British literary figures, including those of John Milton, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth and William Shakespeare. View of British Houses of Parliament. Big Ben clock tower at Parliament striking. View of a ceremony occurring at the Standing Lincoln statue of Abraham Lincoln, at Parliament Square, Canning Green, in London, England. Unveiling of Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Statue at Grosvenor Square in London England on April 12, 1948.
Memorial services in Luxeuil, France during World War II. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Alexander M Patch of the Seventh Army and Major General John E Dahlquist of the 36th Infantry Division present at the ceremony. Civilians gather in a street. Buildings along the street sides. French troops and French veterans of World War I parade. Lieutenant General Patch and a French General in front of a plaque commemorating the American forces of the Lafayette Escadrille. An officer addresses the crowd. Major General Dahlquist ties a battle streamer on the 36th Infantry Division flag. Officers and soldiers salute.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Old age insurance'. People fill out old age insurance forms. Men work at a factory. A social security card of John Marshall. A building in Baltimore where old age insurance records are maintained. Drawers inside the building where records are kept. Men and women work on machines as they type and print wage reports, ledger sheets. A sign on a door reads 'Office of the President'. A man at a desk. Wage details being tabulated and posted on each ledger sheet. A map of the United States depicts the regional offices of the old age insurance. People at various offices. An old woman reads while another woman knits. An old couple seated in a park and a man smokes a cigar. Old men and women get cheques under the old age insurance scheme.
U.S. Marines in Con Thien, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Marines fire M-16 rifles and .45 pistols. A tank rolls across a field to retrieve dead Marines. The Marines advance across a field. Dead Marines lying on the ground. Holy Bible lying on the ground, opened to John 1. A Marine speaks over a field phone.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, accompanied by Lady Churchill and several officials, visits Bristol, April,12, 1941, the day after the so-called "Good Friday bombing raid." Churchill pauses to contribute to a charity being represented by a uniformed sailor. He takes a small token of his contribution from the sailor's box and pins it to his coat collar. He speaks with some women lining the sidewalk, and pats the head of a small child held up to him by one of the women. Next, Winston, and Lady Clementine Churchill, speak with a woman, standing near some rubble, as a British officer takes a snapshot. The Churchills, and other members of their party, make their way through some rubble, past several bombed buildings. Several citizens take photographs. Scene shifts the University of Bristol's Wills Memorial Building on Park Street. University officials and faculty in academic robes inside the building. At the center of the ceremonial activities, is Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the University, who presides over the awarding of Honorary degrees to American Ambassador, John Gilbert Winant, and Australian Prime Minister, Robert Gordon Menzies. Churchill is later seen leaving the Memorial Building, flanked by the honors recipients, Winant and Menzies. (World War II period).
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