A documentary titled 'OSS Training Group' shows a training program of U.S. hand picked volunteer soldiers in a OSS secret training camp for guerrilla warfare during World War II. A explosion and smoke rises due to explosion. The U.S. troops carrying guns and advance from the smoky area. A soldier attaches a wire and explosion occurs. A training camp. A U.S. military policeman walk towards a truck and salutes. He checks the documents and all the truck to enter the camp. The policeman opens a barricade. The truck enters the camp area and the selected students get down from the truck. The student trainees, all wearing masks to conceal their identity, stand in formation in front of a building and an OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officer instructs them. The students receive pins with names on them. A badge on the uniform of a student. They receive instructions. The students receive necessary supplies.
Reenactment of combat exhaustion treatment for U.S. soldiers from World War 2 combat. Patients receive military training at a training center after the completion of treatment. The patients march during the training. Rehabilitated patients pitch tents and drill. The patients receive training of sensible occupation therapy project, constructive and field projects, sports for physical coordination and team spirit. (Note: Clips deals with treatment for Combat Exahaustion, also later termed Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD)
U.S. receives a train of gifts in New York City from France (showing their appreciation for relief goods sent by the Americans following World War 2). French freighter Magellan, with "Merci America" painted on her sides, arrives at New York Harbor. It carries a train of 49 French railroad box cars filled with tens of thousands of gifts of gratitude sent by the people of France. Government officials greet each other. A railroad box car is lowered on the dock area from the ship. A sign on the box car : 'Homme 40, Chevaux (enlong) 8'. People stand on either side of a road to welcome and look at the train of gifts while it passes along the streets of the city. Government officials seated in a car. A band plays musical instruments in a parade to welcome the train.
Activities of United States Secret Service Agents in Washington D.C. An armored railway car is provided to the President of the United States for protection when he travels by train. The secret service agents talk with the railroad associations about the protection of train during the tour. The advance heads supervise the train. Presidential train is provided with a communications car operated by the U.S. Army signal Corps. They keep a record about the tour using the short wave radio and telephone.
Railroad in the United States. View of tracks from a moving train. Trees in the background. Huts near the railroad crossing. View of high railroad trestle. A train crosses the high trestle. Smoke emits from the engine. The train at a depot. Workers haul trolley and load boxcar. 'Napoleon' written on the depot building. The train moves on the track.
Development of the railroad transportation in the United States. Trains parked on railroads. Mountains in the background. Train moves on railroads. Passengers seated in train read and interact. Crew serve them meals. Dramatization depicts: A family move in a horse drawn cart through field. Boy interacts with his father about railroad development. Woman reads magazine. Trees in the background. They watch a moving train. Animation depicts: the developing transportation system. Civilians gathered at marketplace. Animated map of America.
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