The New York Yankees train at Atlantic City New Jersey for the 1944 baseball season, during World War 2. Yankees players, wearing long sleeves, jog around the infield. Manager Joe McCarthy addresses the club. Players warm up with throwing and batting drills. Outfielder Ed Levy (#9) swings in batting cage. Second baseman Stuffy Sternweiss (#2) takes a swing. Manager McCarthy clowns around with movie camera. Action shifts to New York Giants spring training camp in Lakewood, New Jersey. Catcher Gus Mancuso takes part in camera tricks. Manager and Hall of Fame slugger Mel Ott looks over his squad. Shortshop Billy Jurges hits a ground ball. (Note: Spring training for all Major League Baseball clubs was in the north that year because of travel restrictions during World War II.)
Orphan children from Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Jewish orphans are transported away from Buchenwald, Germany. A truck drives at a railway station. Orphans of Buchenwald Concentration Camp get off from trucks and move towards a train. The displaced persons with their belongings enter the train. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) official talking to boys in front of railroad car, one of the boys holds a banner. Jewish orphans of various nationalities walking next to railroad tracks with railroad cars, which will transport them to Switzerland. Construction material on ground. Children sorted into small groups and assigned places for transportation on railroad cars. Children board the train.
Training of U.S. Navy students of the United States Fleet Training Center in Charleston, South Carolina. The students work on a torpedo during the training. A Torpedo is moved along a slide by means of a cable mechanism, in the classroom. A sign reads "United States Navy Encapsulated Harpoon". Another sign boards read T/T MK65 Basic Maintenance and Loading/Handling.
Group of striking United Railroads workers standing in sand at waters edge, waving their hats at the camera. Tents are visible behind them. They lift an object from the sand. View of railroad car damaged by rocks and other objects hurled by strikers. Ocean Shore electric railroad car on street in San Francisco. Passengers get on and off. The electric rail car moves down the street and turns following the track, as a police officer steps into the intersection. Model T car and truck seen behind officer. Ocean Shore railroad train with rough paper sign hung on its side, reading: "Municipal Special, 12th and Mission Streets." Men are hanging out the window over the sign and waving. Many get off the train and stand on the pavement.as the train pulls away
Officers training at artillery school in the United States. View of the Fort Sill Field artillery school, Oklahoma. Officers look through binoculars during their gunnery training class. They learn service and firing techniques on field. They learn techniques of rocket bombardment. They learn to fly aircraft and phenomenon of meteorology. They release weather balloons. At Fort Scott, Kansas, officers load coastal guns and are trained about destroying sea borne assets. At Fort Bliss, Texas, officers learn antiaircraft techniques. Long range rocket is launched at the White Sands Proving Grounds.
Countryside of Arizona,United States. Views of landscape and an open field. Mountains in the background. Camera slate indicates next scene is of Frontier Days rodeo in Prescott, Arizona. Arizona Governor Thomas Edward Campbell and an older woman pose for the camera. A boy is nearby behind them, looking on. Governor Campbell smiles, takes off his cowboy hat, and waves it. Landscape views of mesas, buttes, prairie and railroad tracks from a moving train in the American southwest and western United States. Point of view shot from moving railroad train car, of a woman looking out of a train window at the countryside.
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