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Swimmers take part in the marathon swim and Sam Shields of Miami wins the race in New York City
The marathon swim around Manhattan in New York, United States. Swimmers grease their body to keep from getting chilled in the long race in cold water. The contestants dive into the water. A boat in the water. The contestants are fed from the boat which sails beside them. Sam Shields representing Miami, Florida, wins in record time of 8 hours 35 minutes and poses. ( Note: Sam Shields, reportedly a native of Louisville, KY, was a top competitive swimmer in his college days with the University of Miami.)
Major events of the 1930s include Wall Street crash, kidnapping of Lindbergh child, Hindenburg disaster, Spanish Civil War, etc.
'Retrospect' about the events that led to the present pattern of life in the United States. Host Douglas Edwards, an American television anchor speaks about the past events in America. Crowd of unemployed men gathering in bread lines after the 1929 crash and subsequent Great Depression. A man near a box of apples. The U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses a gathering. The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter who abducted the child during the trial. The congressmen at the formation of the Lindbergh Law. Newspapers describe the apprehension or death of notorious mafia gangster criminals, such as Dutch Schultz and Baby Face Nelson. Huey Pierce Long, Jr. a American politician addresses people. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia appeals to the League of Nations, after his country is attacked by Italy under Mussolini. Adolf Hitler stands. Troops of the German army parade. Scenes from the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1937 as Spanish national forces battle against fascist rebel forces. Spanish Troops fire 75mm field artillery pieces. Bombs being dropped on the buildings. Spanish soldiers marching during the civil war. The Hindenburg disaster takes place on May 6th 1937: The German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester, New Jersey. Amelia Earhart the first woman aviator to fly solo holds flowers and is surrounded by people. She went missing in 1937. Cowboy philosopher Will Rogers, alone and with U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner and with aviator Wiley Post (who had patch over one eye). King Edward VIII of Great Britain, abdicating the throne for "the woman I love." People at the German-American Bund Nazi sympathizing gathering including the subduing of objectors on stage, in Madison Square Garden, New York. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, returning from meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938. View of Adolf Hitler. German tanks on parade in World War II. an array of artillery guns on display. Railway guns being fired in WW2.
U.S. Army Medical Service at work during the Korean War.
The role of the American Army Medical Service during the Korean war. U.S. Army Captain Carl Zimmerman introduces Major General George E. Armstrong, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army who speaks from Washington, DC, about the work of the medical service. Scenes from the Korean War. U.S. troops rushed from japan, in July 1950 after a Chinese offensive at the 38th Parallel. Troops disembarking from ship and unloading artillery. Medical personnel offloading from assault boats, including doctors, medics, ambulances and drivers. A crane offloads medical equipment and supplies from a ship. Nurses with a mobile surgical hospital unit. Medics remove a casualty from an ambulance, on a stretcher. U.S. infantry slogging through difficult terrain. An ambulance driven on a mud road. Korean refugee families. Children sit and eat. People walk. An old Korean man is helped into a car. U.S. C-54 transport aircraft unloading supplies and evacuating wounded on stretchers. Medical supplies being unloaded from an aircraft and loaded into a truck. Surgeons in a tent hospital. A doctor treats a patient who is receiving blood plasma in an IV. Medics moving with tanks and infantry. Walking wounded being assisted. U.S. wounded lying on the ground, attended by medics. The U.S. medics treat injured soldiers during a tank battle. Soldiers on tanks. Thousands of paratroopers jumping from aircraft, their parachutes filling the skies. U.S. Army wounded being treated on stretchers around the Yalu River. Tenth Corps Troops in long winter withdrawal. U.S. Marine aircraft evacuating wounded. Troops withdrawing by sea in Landing Ships.
U.S Army Medical Service in Korea. Injured U.S. soldiers evacuated to the United States during the Korean War.
Scenes inside U.S. Army hospital in Japan. Surgeons scrub hand and arms at sinks before surgery. Surgeons prepare for operation on patient. Patients are moved about and treated. Nurse tending bedridden patient. Several soldiers seen leaving to return to duty in Korea. Others are transported to Haneda Air Base, near Tokyo, where the Military Air Transport Command operates long range aircraft in the so-called "Pacific Air Shuttle." A wounded soldier is taken from an ambulance and placed aboard a transport aircraft. Interior of aircraft is shown, with stretchers, medical workers and nurses. Aerial view of Honolulu, Hawaii from aircraft. The aircraft lands at Hawaii where wounded are cared for at Tripler Army Hospital until ready to continue journey to Travis Air Force Base in California. View from cockpit of aircraft landing at Travis Air Force Base. Wounded patients being moved through rear cargo doors of C-97 aircraft. Exterior view of fountains and main entrance at Walter Reed U.S. Army General Hospital in Washington, DC. Captain Zimmerman introduces Lt. Col. S.J. Newsome, who was a surgeon in Korea with the 7th Division. Dr. Newsome emphasizes "speed" as the most important factor in recovery of wounded soldiers. He also mentions the problem of disease affecting soldiers in foreign places like Korea, saying that, "Korea is a disease ridden country" with cases of pnemonia, smallpox, and "orgental diseases we had never seen before." Scenes of Army doctors performing medical examinations on soldier patients. Wounded being placed aboard jeep in Korean War. Soldier firing rifle. Soldiers slogging through mud and water. Soldiers firing artillery in the snow, and evacuating wounded on inflated litter in snow. Combat in jungle. View of civilian people wasing at side of river in India. Civilian dead in streets.
Role of American women in the military; WACS, nurses, and other military roles for women in World War 1 and World War 2
The role of women in the armed forces in the United States. A U.S. Army sniper fires a 1903 Springfield rifle on the Korean front during the Korean War. A woman in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) inspecting such a rifle in the U.S. Several Patton Tanks moving up a hilly road in Korean War. A WAC testing the turret of a Patton tank. U.S. Army women at desks as they work with Army men in an office. Picture depicts Molly Pitcher, wife of a fallen U.S. Revolutionary War artilleryman. Depiction of George Washington at desk. Depiction of Clara Barton, an American nurse with a wounded soldier. Reenactment of Clara Barton working with another women. A man holds the flag of the American red cross. Actual footage of a Wright Brothers aircraft in flight. Women in long dresses pushing an early model of car. A group of American soldiers in World War I running on a battlefield.. U.S. Army troops wearing gas masks and firing rifles from trench in World War I. American women war production workers assembling belts of machine gun bullets during World War I in a munitions factory in the United States. A nurse tending a wounded soldier. A woman nurse helping place a wounded soldiers into an ambulance in Europe, in World War I. Nurses in an operating theater in a hospital during World War I. Women march in victory parade at end of World War I. Women's suffrage demonstration by suffragists (sometimes called suffragettes) in front of the White House and then women and men entering a polling place to vote around time of of 19th amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart climbing down from an airplane. Swimmer Gertrude Ederle on an award stand. U.S. Navy Vought SB2U-2 planes in flight as they drop bombs. Scene of Pearl Harbor attack by Japanese during World War 2. Army nurses look out from deck of ship in World War II. Soldiers fire artillery. View of mountains and scenes of combat on islands in the Pacific during WWII. General Mark Clark awards nurse Silver Star medal. Repatriated Army nurses, who were prisoners, are loaded onto an aircraft by means of a fork lift. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation establishing the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). Secretary of State George Marshall and others witness the signing. Depiction of Godess Athena. Women volunteering for WAAC move in a line carrying bags. American women in military uniform marching. WAAC volunteers being processed. Women receive physical exams and receive inoculations. WAAC personnel being trained: working on X rays, in medical pharmacy laboratories, food service, and radio work. Women on board warships in World War 2.
Women attend a communist peace meeting in Budapest, Hungary
Soviet newsreel with Korean narration. Participants attend a communist peace meeting in Budapest, Hungary. Marchers carrying banners, pictures and torches. An elderly woman holds a torch. Young women wearing headscarves attend the gathering. Sign in Hungarian reads “Long live Stalin, the great friend of the Hungarian people”. Representatives from different nations in Asia, Europe, Africa and Americas took part in the meeting. Women speakers addressing the meeting.