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U.S. Army National Guard serves the country during peace and war.
Film opens showing a poster of a National Guardsman with Nike missiles in the background. Sketches of National Guard (the Militia) maintaining order during civic disturbances in history. Sketches of Guardsmen in various uniforms over the ages. An early National Guard encampment. Mounted National Guard cavalry moving in formation during World War 1; Guard soldiers climbing a hill under fire on a Pacific island in World War 2; Guard troops marching in review during the Korean War; Guardsmen directing traffic during an emergency; Views of a disaster site. A National guardsman giving water to disaster victims. A contingent of National Guard demonstrating the manual of arms using their rifles. National Guard members training under supervision of the U.S. Army. They move across a field, cross a pontoon bridge. National Guard training in M4A3E8 Sherman medium Tanks. Guardsmen in Hawaii and in Alaska. National Guard maintaining a Nike Hercules missile.
U.S. President Nixon speaks urging action from the Congress to fight inflation in the United States.
Speech by U.S. President Richard Nixon from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, United States about inflation in the country. President Nixon speaks about battle against inflation. He states that the Congress can only hold down cost of living by holding down cost of the government. He says he would continue to veto spending bills which the country cannot afford. President Nixon urges the Congress to reduce tariffs and increase the supply of scarce goods. The President says the Congress should give him authority to move ahead with the Alaska Pipeline for oil to meet the shortage of oil and gas during energy crisis. He urges high production for farm industries. President Nixon speaks about peace in Vietnam and that all American prisoners have returned back. He talks about his summit meeting with General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev which would take place a week later in Washington. President Nixon talks about achieving full prosperity without war and inflation. (Vietnam War period).
President Richard Nixon gives an energy crisis statement from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC.
U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, United States. President Nixon says that lack of energy supplies would bring temporary shortages in fuel supplies and some increase in fuel prices. He says that if energy resources were properly developed they could fulfill American energy requirements for centuries. He says that his administration was going to end quantitative controls on oil imports and establish a national energy office in the United States. He talks about increasing the ability of the United States to prevent oil spills. The President proposes that the Congress should remove government regulations which discouraged the growth of domestic natural gas industry. Secondly, the Congress should help to establish research and ground work for developing new forms of energy for a long range future (alternate sources of energy). Thirdly, the Congress should permit the licensing of new deep water ports to open the way for long delayed Alaska oil pipeline.
U.S. Army Service Forces transporting troops and supplies worldwide during World War II.
U.S. troops board a large troop transport ship via a gangplank. Troops on an intermediate deck of the ship. Some are sprawled out relaxing. View from above of more troops boarding a ship. Men and equipment on the pier below. American forces at various far flung places where the U.S. Army Services Forces facilitated their transport and logistic support. Fleeting glimpses of troops in: Ireland; Alaska; Trinidad; and South America. Troops jam the upper deck of a transport ship. Army Service Forces officers in a planning meeting. Naval officers on deck of a ship look through binoculars as U.S. Naval ships bombard the coast of Solomon Islands and landing craft carry marines in an amphibious assault. Next, a man is seen annotating a map of North Africa. Secret maps pertaining to Allied landings in Tunisia and Algeria. Animated map illustrates amphibious landings on North African coast, highlighting Casablanca, Oran, and Algeria. Landing craft carry troops and supplies that are piled up in the sand beach. Soldiers moving military supplies ashore, in fire brigade fashion. Soldiers working at desks in Offices of the Army Service Forces. Filing cabinet in background. Trucks on the move in remote locations. Supply ship being loaded at a terminal. Fuel drums and army vehicles a being loaded aboard ships. Officers seated at a conference table. Ordinary American enlisted soldiers in a griping session at an Army post in the United States. Camera pans over large formation of soldiers. Animated chart shows more than half of servicemen who are part of Army Service Forces (ASF), are unaware of that. Troops marching in review at a tropical location, where reviewing officers wear pith helmets. Chart illustrates lack of unit pride in ASF. Images of various ASF logos. Chart shows results of polling data from soldiers and service members. Signal Corps and Engineers elements of ASF have the greatest unit pride. But most think better of other branches of the Army. More troops marching, in steel helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets affixed. Troops marching overlaid by "50%" indicating that half don't believe their contributions to the war effort are significant. Troops lined up (for pay?). More charts expressing concern about low morale. A heavy gun firing. German paratroopers jumping from a formation of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft. Charts expressing prevailing U.S. troops view that Germany wouldn't be too hard to defeat. Chart showing lack of understanding about why the U.S. is fighting Germany. Image of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seated in front of their key military officers at Casablanca Conference in World War 2. Chart shows U.S. soldiers believe that the greatest war effort is expended by the U.S. followed by Russia, with China and Britain providing little. Chart illustrates that only half U.S. troops want to get overseas and fight. Chart shows U.S. War Department films can correct this problem.
Douglas World Cruisers take off from the U.S. for their first flight from America to Asia.
U.S. Army Air Service Douglas World Cruisers (DWC) in the United States during the first flight around the world. In Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Flier Douglas World Cruiser on a lake before the hop across the Pacific to Japan. A snow-covered mountain in the background. Two cruisers. One of the cruisers warms up. One of the cruisers as it is being raised onto a Coast Guard ship. Raised aircraft engine shows engine change in Lieutenant Leigh Wade's (Pilot of the World Cruiser) airplane for a hop to Attu Island in Japan. Lt. Lowell H. Smith standing on the nose of the aircraft holding the propeller blade. A stationary cruiser on a shore. Another cruiser seen. Both are equipped with pontoons. Three of the world cruisers in flight while they are in their first flight from America to Asia. Animated map shows the dangerous route across the Pacific. The Pacific crossed by airplane. Animated map of the coastline of North America and Asia with 'Second Division Chicagoff to Kagoshima, Japan' written on the map.
Douglas World Cruisers aviators are greeted in Seattle, Washington after their first flight around the world.
U.S. Army Air Service Douglas World Cruisers (DWC) in Seattle, Washington after their first flight around the world. In Seattle, the point from which they started 176 days ago. The world cruisers in flight. A world cruiser coming in for a landing. Major Frederick F. Martin greets Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, Lt. Leigh Wade and Lt. Erik H. Nelson. The pilots in uniforms pose. Animations of the North American continent pinpointing Alaska where Major Frederick F. Martin crashed into a mountain. The path over which the world cruisers flew pinpointing the place where the cruiser flown by Lt. Wade was forced down and wrecked. Then the course to Seattle is shown.
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