U.S. Army Air Force paratroopers bailing out of aircraft C-47, descending, and landing on ground. C-47s landing and crew debarking on air strip. Crew getting equipment from aircraft. Part of training drills before entry of America into World War 2.
View across Broadway Avenue in New York City. Merchant Maritime building and traffic passing on the avenue can be seen.
View at War Shipping Administration Division headquarters in New York City. Atlantic Coast Director W.W.Schwenk discussing with other officials in a meeting. Schewenk discussing and looking into Secret War Administration Data Book. Door sign of 'OFFICE OF ATLANTIC COAST DIRECTOR - WAR SHIPPING ADMN ENTRANCE' can be seen. (World War II period)
Shows entrance of American Bureau of Shipping building. Mr. Lewis L. Luckenbach (President of Board) speaking before American Board of Shipping. Various views of men listening and President speaking.
Scene at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Port Newark, New Jersey, as the U.S. Destroyer Escort USS McConnell is launched. Shipyard workers aboard the deck and handling lines. U.S. Naval Ensign displayed at her bow and crew looking down. Mrs. Grace Otteson McConnell swings the bottle of champagne and the USS McConnell slides down the ways after christening. View from deck of the McConnell as she goes down the ways. View from water, as she enters, stern-first. Change of scene to high vantage point overlooking the shipyard, at change of shift, when those ending leave and those arriving enter the yard to start work. Workers leaving through guarded gate. Incoming workers punching in on the time clock.
School children, people and traffic going about normal daily business in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Scene in front of General William J Palmer High School, at the intersection of Nevada Avenue and East Platte Avenue. Students crossing a street after school. A boy and girl teenage high school students walking together holding books. Each is dressed in typical clothing including boy wearing a cardigan letter sweater, and girl wearing skirt and an open sweater hanging from her shoulders. Both students are holding books as they walk and talk. Next scene is tree tops and two flag poles, with American flag on one pole and a different flag on the other pole that includes a union jack in the corner. Final scene shows elementary school age children at a street crossing. A fellow student, wearing a yellow hard hat, serves as school safety patrol crossing guard, and motions to hold the students on the sidewalk, and then helps the students cross the street after checking for traffic.
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