A U.S. Navy band swing ensemble practices at an auditorium in the U.S. Great Lakes Naval Training Center during World War 2. Sailors and family members stroll out of a building together. Scene shifts to a football stadium, filled with sailors watching a game. A large formation of sailors in white uniforms march to a large chapel. Inside, a choir of sailors leads the congregation in the hymn, "Onward Christian Soldiers." Glimpse of a large formation of trained recruits, followed by view of one standing alone, casting shadow on otherwise empty parade grounds. Successive groups of recruits are added until an entire regiment is seen. Two Naval officers, in blues, walk past a formation of graduating recruits. A Petty Officer Third Class band master leads a military band that marches ahead of a color guard bearing the American flag and that of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. They are followed by contingents of graduating recruits identified by their training unit flags. Scene shifts to several U.S. battleships underway at sea in formation. They fire their heavy guns.
Activity of the Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff. View of exterior of "Quarters One" at Fort Myer, in Arlington, Virginia, the Residence of the United States Army Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, occupied then by General Omar Bradley. Two cannon pieces outside the house on a lawn. A sign on a car reads 'Department of Defense United States of America'. The car, a Cadillac limousine circa 1948, pulls up outside the Quarters One house and a chauffeur opens the door of the car. General Omar Bradley seen on porch of house. Next seen shows Cadillac car arriving at Pentagon, and General Bradley ascends stairs of Pentagon as a photographer clicks pictures. A sign above a door reads 'Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff'. General Omar Bradley enters a building to confer with USAF Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg and leaves it.
Chairman of United States Joint Chiefs of Staff at Pentagon in the United States. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar Bradley enters his office at the Pentagon. A sign above the door reads 'Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff'. An officer enters a building. General Bradley and USAF Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg leave the building. General Vandenberg gets into a car and drives away. General Bradley gets into another car and leaves.
United States Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg at Pentagon in Virginia, United States. Bolivian Chief of Staff Major General Ovidio Quinoga being greeted by officers. An officer reads out a citation and General Vandenberg pins up a medal onto Major General Quinoga. General Vandenberg greets Major General Quinoga. Major General's wife greets her husband. Major General Quinoga being greeted by other officers.
Ground and aerial views during construction of the Miller Highway on the west side of Manhattan Island in New York, United States. It was named after Julius Miller, the President of New York's Manhattan Borough from 1922 to 1930. It was also known as the West Side Elevated Highway or the West Side Highway. It was the first elevated highway in the United States. The elevated highway under construction. Men work on the highway. Sections also designated NY Routes 9A and NY 27A. The Miller Highway was shut down in 1973 and largely dismantled in 1989.
A lotus field in Grass Lake, Illinois. A lotus bed on a lake. A bow of a boat as it nears the lotus bed. A man and women in the boat. The women pluck lotus flowers. A young lotus seed in the field.
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